The three major running scripts in the world are as follows:
The three major running scripts refer to "Lanting Preface", "Manuscript of Memorial to Nephew Jiming" and "Huangzhou Cold Food Poems". Throughout the 1,800-year history of the development of Chinese running script, three outstanding calligraphers have established immortal monuments. They are Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing, and Su Shi. Their representative works of running script are "Lanting Preface", "Manuscript of Memorial to My Nephew Jiming" and "Huangzhou Cold Food". "Poetry", known as "the three major running scripts in the world".
"Preface to the Orchid Pavilion", also known as "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Banquet Collection", is a gathering of Wang Xizhi, Xie An, Sun Chuo and other friends at Lanting Pavilion in Shanyin (today's Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province). At the meeting, people wrote poems one after another. "Lanting Preface" is the manuscript preface written by Wang Xizhi to their poems. The preface describes the beauty of the landscape around Lanting and the joy of the party, expressing the author's emotion that "life and death are just illusions, and Qi Peng's death is just nonsense."
As a type of Chinese calligraphy, running script has a high artistic value and historical status. Among the many calligraphy styles, why is only running script known as “the three major running scripts in the world”? This is because running script has a unique artistic style and cultural connotation, which is more representative and influential than other calligraphy styles.
Wang Xizhi's "Lanting Preface", Yan Zhenqing's "Manuscript for Nephew Sacrifice" and Su Shi's "Han Shi Tie" are known as "the three major running scripts in the world" by later generations. Running script pursues improvisation and uncontrolled emotional expression when writing. In fact, the "Three Great Running Scripts in the World" still present to us three realms and three lives. Although they are all improvised works, they most truly convey the truest self.
Characteristics of running script:
1. Variable writing techniques: The writing style of running script is similar to that of regular script, but the writing rhythm of running script is faster than that of regular script. The writing, closing and turning are all done according to the trend, flexible and changeable, each with its own merits. It is mainly manifested in the combination of hidden and dew, with mostly exposed fronts. Such as "line"; it has both square and round strokes, mainly round strokes, such as "觞"; the lifting and pressing are obvious and the sense of rhythm is strong, such as "yi", "zu", etc.
2. Lively and spirited: write regular script, stroke by stroke, with clear beginning and end. The rhythm of writing running script is faster than that of regular script, and some hooks or strings connecting the previous and following strokes will naturally appear with the strokes. However, due to the echo and traction of the attached hook or wire, the connection between strokes and words is strengthened, making it appear more lively and lively.