Lanting, located at the foot of Lanzhu Mountain, 13 kilometers southwest of Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, is the garden residence of the Sage of Calligraphy Wang Xizhi, a Jin Dynasty garden.
The Lanting Preface was written by Wang Xizhi, the Sage of Calligraphy in the Jin Dynasty of China.
Excerpts from the original text: This place has lofty mountains and steep hills, lush forests and bamboos, and there are clear streams and turbulence, reflecting the left and right, leading to goblets of water, sitting in the second. Although there is no silk and bamboo orchestra, a goblet is also enough to talk about your feelings.
Translation: The Lanting is a place with high peaks, lush forests, and tall bamboos. There is also a clear and rapid stream, reflecting the surroundings of the pavilion, we lead the stream as a goblet of water, sitting next to the water, although there is no music playing, but drink some wine and compose some poems, but also enough to freely recount the deep hidden feelings.
Expanded InformationOn April 22, 353 A.D. (the third day of the third month of the ninth year of the Yonghe Jin Dynasty, 1,661 years ago), Wang Xizhi, who was then the inner historian of the city of Huiji, met with his friends Xie An and Sun Chuo, and other 41 people in the Lanting Pavilion at the Yin of the mountain in Huiji, and drank and wrote poems.
Wang Xizhi compiled these poems and poems into a collection and wrote a preface to describe the goblets of wine and express the inner feelings triggered by them. This preface is "lanting set preface". And waved a "Lanting set preface".
Tang Taizong was highly esteemed, had personally written the book of jin "wang xizhi biography", praised as "perfect". Also will be copied to give Guiwei close ministers, and to the real works of martyrdom.
The Lanting Preface, with 28 lines and 324 characters, is a beautiful and elegant work of art, with exquisite characters, as if it were a dance, as if it were made by a god, and has been regarded as a superb piece of work by the calligraphy world through the ages. Mi Fu, a great calligrapher of the Song Dynasty, called it "the first post of Chinese running script".
Anyone who learns to write in running script in later generations will fall in love with the Lanting. The Lanting Preface" spilling dance general penmanship is really let my generation of book learners look and sigh, marvel at Wang Xizhi out of the calligraphy skills, marvel at Wang Xizhi as water-like fluent literary style.
Wang Xizhi "Lanting Preface", also known as "Linhe Preface", "Lanting Collection Preface", "Purification Post", 28 lines, 324 words. Eastern Jin Dynasty Yonghe nine years (353) Wang Xizhi book, Mi Fu reputation as "the world's first running script".
The real work was buried in the mausoleum of Zhaoling, there are facsimiles and copies of the book, to "Shenlong this" is the best. This post with the pen to the center mainly, between the side of the front, between the strokes of the haunting, delicate and light, or pen broken and meaning even, press and staccato a natural, the overall layout of the Tianqi staggered, with the dashing and flowing, beautiful and moving infinite charm "this post in the history of Chinese calligraphy has a high position.
Author introduction: Wang Xizhi, calligrapher of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the word Yishao. Originally from Langya (now belongs to Shandong Linyi), living in Huiji Shanyin (Shaoxing, Zhejiang). Officials to the right army generals, the internal history of Huiji, known as "Wang right army". Wang Xizhi was born in the famous families of the two Jin dynasties. When Wang Xizhi was twelve years old, his father taught him the theory of penmanship, and he was "enlightened by the outline of his words".
When he was a child, he learned calligraphy from Mrs. Wei, a famous female calligrapher of the time. Later, he traveled across the river to the north to visit famous mountains and learned from all the masters. He learned cursive from Zhang Zhi, and formal calligraphy from Zhong Yao. He studied and learned from "a wide range of styles" and reached a high level of "nobility and quality, ancient and modern".
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