The Origin of Lanting Preface

Preface to Lanting is known as "the best running script in the world" and is the representative work of Wang Xizhi, a great calligrapher in Jin Dynasty. It is highly praised by calligraphers of all ages. Wang Xizhi, then the national history of Huiji, invited dignitaries and literati to hold a unique poetry meeting in Lanting, Huiji Mountain in Yonghe, Jin Mu for nine years.

They sat on both sides of the winding water in the middle of steep mountains and bamboo forests, and put their horses on the clear water and let them drift. Whoever stays in front of them will improvise poetry. If some of them feel dull and can't write poems at once, they will be fined. Celebrities wrote 37 poems, and Wang Xizhi collected all kinds of poems and wrote Preface to Lanting.