Yan Liben, a great painter in the Tang Dynasty, once painted an ink painting called "Xiao Yi earned the Lanting Map", and the original was lost. The story of the characters recorded in the painting happened in yunmen temple.
This is a mysterious calligraphy case that has been handed down for ages.
It is said that after Wang Xizhi's death, Sun Zhiyong, the seventh generation of Wang Xizhi, once became a monk here, creating the calligraphy "Eight Methods of Forever Characters". Zhiyong had a disciple named Debate. On his deathbed, Zhiyong passed the Preface to Lanting to Debate.
Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, loved calligraphy very much. Because he admired Wang Xizhi's calligraphy masterpiece, he happened to hear that the Preface to Lanting was in the hands of yunmen temple's debater. He summoned the debater three times to ask about the whereabouts of the Preface to Lanting, and the debater insisted that the Preface to Lanting had died in the chaos and was unknown.
So Emperor Taizong sent a special inspector to find out the whereabouts of Mo Bao. Xiao Yi pretended to be a Shandong scholar and went to Yunmen.
After Xiao Yi met the eloquence, they hit it off very well and soon became friends who talked about everything.
once, they were chatting.
Xiao Yi said, "My disciples all passed on the calligraphy of Wang Kai, and I came here to study it when I was young. Now I have several posts with me."
The debater is very happy after listening to it, so let Xiao Yi bring it tomorrow. The next day, Xiao Yi really brought the calligraphy works of the "two kings".
after reading it, the debater said: Yes is enough, but it is not good. Being original is quite common.
what post does Xiao yi ask? The debater said: Lanting.
Xiao Yi said, after many wars, how can the original be there? It must be fake. So the debater told Xiao Yi the whole story of the preface to the Lanting Pavilion, and let Xiao Yi see it every other day.
The next day, the debater got the Preface to the Lanting Pavilion from the beam and showed it to Xiao Yi.
After reading it, Xiao Yi deliberately said that Preface to the Lanting Pavilion was false, and they argued endlessly. However, for this reason, the debater casually left the Preface to Lanting in the room and didn't put it on the beams.
One day, while the debater was away, Xiao Yi secretly took the Preface to Lanting and fled, so he gave it to Emperor Taizong.
Emperor Taizong liked it very much after his death, and he took this Preface to Lanting to the coffin.
Since then, Preface to Lanting has not been published in the world.