Let me tell you, all of them were attended by the following sages and celebrities:
In the ninth year of Yonghe, that is, the third day of March in 353 AD (the date of the ancient spring), more than 4 stars of the Eastern Jin Dynasty appeared in Lanting (now Lanzhu Mountain in the southwest of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province) in the mountains of Huiji at the invitation of Wang Xizhi, the internal history of the host. Almost all the prominent families have arrived since the Wei and Jin Dynasties: Wang, Xie, Yuan, Yang, Xi, Yu and Huan ... The specific list of these 42 people is: Wang Xizhi, Wang Huizhi, Wang Xianzhi, Wang Ningzhi, Wang Xuanzhi, Wang Yunzhi, Wang Fengzhi, Wang Suzhi, Wang Binzhi, Wang Huanzhi and Xu Fengzhi. The broad-minded, elegant, elegant and profound temperament of the Eastern Jin Dynasty made this gathering completely lose its political color, even if the organizer Wang was the mayor of Huiji, even if most of the participants were military and political celebrities of Huiji and Jiankang. It can be said that this gathering is completely life, heart and landscape.
It's a sunny day. Celebrities in the Eastern Jin Dynasty are sitting on both sides of a winding and clear stream with wide robes and big sleeves, leaning against flowers and grass, and drinking glasses are lightly supported by lotus leaves. Whoever comes to them will write poems on the spot. If they fail to write poems, they will be fined. Twenty-six people, including Wang Xizhi, wrote poems on the spot, while 16 people, including Wang Xianzhi, didn't, so they were fined for drinking. Twenty-six people who wrote the works wrote 37 poems, which were collected as Lanting Collection, and Wang Xizhi prefaced it, which was the preface to Lanting Collection, the first running book in the ages (it is said that the original works were buried in the tomb of Li Shimin or Wu Zetian). If Cao Mengde wrote poems on the bronze sparrow terrace in those days, and the stars were all over the sky, and the harmony was like a cloud, there was still sadness in his poems that his great ambition could not be realized, then the melancholy of Lanting came entirely from the residual water of life. Look at the time, send feelings to the landscape, do not be the generosity of Meng De, nor the debauchery of Ruan Ji, but pursue the realm of tranquility and selflessness. This is the change of Wei and Jin demeanor in Yonghe years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and can also be regarded as the natural migration of the aesthetic pursuit of the characters in the Jiangnan environment. This is not only a poetry meeting, a gathering of famous people, but also a reception in spring, a grand gathering for talking, and a trip between mountains and rivers. The Lanting gathering marks that the literati in the Eastern Jin Dynasty have completely integrated into the landscape aesthetics. At that time, Sun Chuo said something like this: "Beautiful mountains and clear waters can ease your heart!"