This paper describes the scenery of Lanting and the fun of gathering by Wang Xizhi and others, and expresses the author's sigh: if things are not frequent, they will eventually be finished.
The author is extremely happy and sad when he is happy and sad. The article also changed with his feelings, from calm to calm, to ups and downs, ups and downs, so Preface to Lanting Collection became a famous masterpiece.
From the first paragraph to the second paragraph, the time, place, reason and person of meeting are described, and the surrounding environment and scene are described from "There are mountains here". Finally, "this is a day" leads to describe the mood of tourists and express the mood of the meeting.
In the first and second paragraphs of this article, the author describes the environment of this banquet simply and elegantly, which shows the author's happy mood and love for natural beauty with its charm, clear sky and pleasant atmosphere.
In the third natural section, Lanting gathering potential is linked with people's getting along with each other today. Even if people get along in different ways and have different degrees of calmness, it implies the source of life troubles. First of all, it comes from the inner desires that life itself can't satisfy, that is, "I am satisfied with what I have", "I am tired of what I have" and "I am emotional".
Secondly, the flow from the outside world is uncertain and difficult to follow, that is, "I enjoy it, and between pitching, it has become a thing of the past." The third comes from the short and limited life of an individual, that is, "tinkering with the shortcomings will eventually end." Finally, "life and death are great, isn't it painful?" Tie a knot.
In the third paragraph, although the author deeply regrets the fleeting time and the shortness of life, there is a kind of attachment and love for life between the lines. It is precisely because the author has a clear understanding of the worries of life that he can foster strengths and avoid weaknesses and create unlimited value in a limited life.
The fourth natural paragraph: from the experience of reading the works of the ancients in Sense of Style, it shows that the ancients also felt the feeling of death and life; Then he turned to the in-depth description of life and the world, criticizing the current literati that "death is a false life and Peng Qi's mourning is an illusion", which shows Wang Xizhi's persistent resistance to the illusion of life.
Then, I lamented that "it is sad to look back on the present and the past from now". It can be seen that the author has a special love and persistence for life in his keen and profound feelings for life. Then, the author expounds the origin of Preface to Lanting Collection and summarizes the whole text.
In the fourth paragraph, while lamenting the impermanence of life of the ancients, present and future generations, the author criticizes the nihilism of Zhuang Zhou's Life and Death and Peng Qizhi's Sorrow, which should of course be regarded as positive.
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The creative background of Preface to Lanting Collection;
In the 9th year of Jin Yonghe (353), on the third day of the third lunar month, Wang Xizhi, who "went to Zhejiang first and was determined to win", once held an elegant gathering with 4/kloc-0 celebrities such as Gao Shi Xie An and Sun Chuo in the Lanting under the shade of Huiji Mountain (now under the Zhu Lan Mountain outside Shaoxing). Participants presented poems, expressed their feelings and transcribed them into collections.
Everyone recommended that Wang Xizhi, the convener of this gathering, write a preface to record this elegant collection, that is, the preface to Lanting Collection.
Brief introduction to the author of Preface to Lanting Collection;
Wang Xizhi (303-36 1), Han nationality, was born in Linyi (now Linyi, Shandong), and later moved to Yin Shan (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). Because Wang Xizhi is right-handed, he is called "Wang Youjun" and "Wang Huiji".
At the same time, he is good at Li, Cao, Kai, and other styles, carefully studying the body posture, imitating the heart and chasing the hand, learning from others' strengths, preparing various styles, casting a furnace, getting rid of the Han and Wei styles, becoming a family of his own, and having far-reaching influence, and creating a running script of "Nature is natural, and God is abundant and covers generations".
Representative works include: On the Music and Yi in Regular Script, Huang Tingjing, Seventeen Notes in Cursive Script, Quick Snow Clearing Notes, Mourning Notes in Running Script, Preface to Lanting Collection in Regular Script, etc. He was a calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and was honored as a "book saint" by later generations. Together with his son Wang Xianzhi, he is called "Two Kings".
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