Appreciation of Preface to Lanting The Preface to Lanting Collection is also known as Preface to He Lin, Post and Preface to Lanting March 3rd. On March 3rd, the 9th year of Yonghe, Jin Mu (AD 353), Wang Xizhi, then a historian of literature and history, and his friends Xie An, Sun Chuo and other 4/0 people gathered in Lanting to compose poems and drink wine. Wang Xizhi compiled a collection of famous poets and their poems, and made a preface, describing the swimming event and expressing the inner feelings caused by it. This preface is Preface to Lanting Collection. This preface is greatly influenced by Shi Chong's Preface to Jingu Poetry, and its achievement is far above that of Jingu Poetry.
The article first describes the time, place and participants of the meeting, which is concise. Then describe the natural environment and surrounding scenery where Lanting is located. The language is concise and orderly. Describe the scenery from the big picture, from far and near, to near and far, to infinity. First write about mountains and rivers, then write about clean water and turbulence, and then write about the activities of characters and the combination of modality and movement downstream. Then add natural search, from clear blue sky and faint spring breeze, naturally push to the vast universe and everything in the world. The artistic conception is graceful and elegant, and the mood is cheerful and smooth. Lanting banquet, really? Four beauties dilemma? .
But all good things must come to an end. Where there is convergence, there must be separation. What do you mean? Happy and sad? This is the common emotion of people, although people have different choices and temperament. Just when I felt extremely happy for what I longed for and finally got, in an instant, all this became the past. Human life is no exception, so-called? I wonder if old age is coming. (Confucius) Old Ran Ran is coming? (Qu Yuan),? Life is between heaven and earth, if the election suddenly flies? ("Nineteen Ancient Poems"), which cannot but arouse people's feelings. Every time I think that a person will eventually die no matter how long he lives, it makes people feel extremely sad and sad. If the previous paragraph is a narrative description, then this paragraph is a discussion and lyric. The author expressed his yearning and persistent enthusiasm for life in the sigh that life is short and life is not alive.
During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, metaphysics was very popular, and most of the literati were Zhuangzi? Homologous? Make excuses, pretend to be open-minded and despise work. Wang Xizhi is also an eloquent scholar, but he is different from other scholars in political thought and life ideal. He once said, "What's the harm of talking nonsense?"? ("Shi Shuo Xin Yu? In this preface, Wang Xizhi also explicitly reprimanded? Dead or alive? 、? Peng Qi? It is an illusory outlook on life, which definitely affirms the value of life.
This article is fresh and unpretentious in style. The language is fluent, beautiful and moving, and the works of "Mo Shan Pan Shui" in Wei and Jin Dynasties? A hundred words of love, a strange price? ("Wen Xin Diao Long? Poetry of the Ming Dynasty is very different. The sentence patterns are neat and diverse, mainly short sentences, and even sentences are added to the scattered sentences, which are harmonious in rhythm and pleasant to listen to.
In a word, this article embodies Wang Xizhi's outlook on life, which is in sharp contrast with the inaction advocated by Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi. Give inspiration and thinking to future generations.
Introduction to Lanting Preface Lanting Preface is the most important running script of Wang Xizhi. In terms of technique, it is almost perfect and becomes a model of calligraphy in the future. The best running script in the world? Fame. Wang Xizhi (303? 36 1) Shao Yi,No. Lian Zhai, originally from Linyi (now Shandong), moved to Yin Shan (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) and became a general of the right army. He was a great calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and was respected by later generations. Book saint? . His son Wang Xianzhi's handwriting is also very good. People call it? Two kings? The other son, from Guan Ju to Zuo, was a general, and Zuo used to be a right general. Wang Youjun? 、? Wang huiji? . Representative works include: Le Yi Lun in regular script, Huang Ting Jing, Seventeen Guas in cursive script, Gua for Aunt in Running Script, Gua for Quick Snow Clear, Gua for Mourning, Preface to Lanting Collection in Running Script, etc.
This calligraphy is mainly based on brush strokes, with many exposed strokes, delicate expression and smooth and beautiful lines. The structure of Chinese characters is vertical, with low left and high right. The size of the word corresponds, the length alternates, and the virtual and the real are born together. There are rows in the layout, but there are no columns in the layout, and each row is swaying. The most precious thing is, from "Preface to Lanting"? Not excited or not excited? His style includes the author's skillful pen and ink skills, profound traditional skills, extensive cultural accomplishment and noble artistic sentiment, reaching the peak.
On March 3rd, the 9th year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (353), Wang Xizhi and forty-one people, including Sun Chuo, Xie An and Zhi Dun, gathered at the scenic Lanting in Huiji to enjoy themselves by the water. They drink together, write poems and talk about their intimate feelings. Later, all the poems were compiled into a book, and Wang Xizhi wrote this preface.
Preface to Lanting Collection describes a great gathering of speakers in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and expresses their common will. The article integrates narration, scenery description, lyricism and discussion, and the style of writing is ups and downs, with strange and accurate changes, which meets the needs of expressing philosophical speculation. The full text can be divided into two parts. The first part is mainly narrative and landscape writing. First, describe the time and place of the meeting. Then take a fancy to the beautiful natural environment of Lanting: winding mountains and clear streams; The wind is sunny and the sky is clear. You can look up at the infinity of the universe and overlook all kinds of prosperity. Is this enough? Did you have fun? ,? Extreme audio-visual entertainment? You can observe and think freely to meet people's needs for vision and hearing. Is this the place to meet? Talk about love? The best thing about having fun. These descriptions are poetic, and the author's mood is calm and calm.
In the second half, the pen changed from enjoying the beautiful scenery and drinking to lyrical discussion, which triggered a mixed feeling of life and death, and the author's mood suddenly changed from calm to agitation. He said: the happiness of life is extremely limited, and when it is satisfied, it will feel boring. The past has become history in a blink of an eye, and people will die. From joy to sorrow, from birth to death, this is his philosophical speculation at this time. He thinks? A dead life is a false birthday, and the destruction of Peng Qi is a mistake? Only in this way can we further explore the value and significance of life, and have a thinking of cherishing time, cherishing life and loving civilization. Life and death are natural laws that human beings can't control, so it is inevitable that he reveals sentimental emotions in his articles. But at the end of the article, the author's mood tends to be calm again. He feels that personnel are changing, history is developing, from prosperity to decline, from birth to death is inevitable. It is precisely because of the impermanence of life that time waits for no one, so he wants to pass on his articles to future generations in order to inherit the predecessors and inspire others.