Lanting Yaji Explanation of terms

The main content of the Lanting Yaji is "repair", which is an ancient folk custom in China. On the first day of the third month of the lunar calendar, people go to the water's edge to hold a ritual of purification, dip incense herbs in water and sprinkle them, or bathe to wash away dirt, feel the spring mood, and pray for the elimination of diseases and bad luck.

Another project of the Lanting Yaji is the Liuyu Qushui, where forty-two celebrities sit on both sides of the meandering stream, and then the scholars pour the wine into the stream and let it go downstream, if the sword stops in front of whom, whoever has to write a poem, if he can't chant a poem, he will be fined three glasses of wine. This Lanting Yaji, there are eleven people each into two poems, fifteen people into one poem each, sixteen people can't make poems and each is punished with three glasses of wine, Wang Xizhi's youngest son Wang Xianzhi was also punished for drinking. Qing Dynasty poets once made fun of Wang Xianzhi in limerick poems.

laughed at the order of the king of Wuyi, and there was no poetry at the Lanting meeting. ”

Originally initiated by Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Lanting Yaji was held in the ninth year of Yonghe (353), and after that, it was imitated and inherited by literati and calligraphers in successive dynasties. The Lanting Collection has basic contents such as cultivation, bending water, drinking and writing poems, making prefaces, and writing books. It is understood that the event was carried out in accordance with the original procedures of Lanting Yaji, 42 famous artists at home and abroad changed into calligraphy uniforms, and sat on the cushion next to Qushui by lottery, imitating Wang Xizhi's Qushui Liuzhen, drinking and writing poems.

On the third day of the third month of the third month of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Yonghe (353 AD), Wang Xizhi, the general of the right army and the great calligrapher of the internal history of Huiji, a group of celebrities and family children who were anxious to build the east soil of the room, a total of 42 people, held the first Lanting Yaji in the Lanting of Huiji Shanyin (now ten kilometers southwest of Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province).

The holding of the Yonghe Lanting Elegant Collection has received positive responses and effective inheritance from later generations of literati and calligraphers. From the beginning of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties to modern times, every once in a while, a group of literati and calligraphers gathered in Lanting to hold Lanting Yaji activities. Lanting Yaji has a long history and has formed a unique traditional Chinese cultural landscape.

Moreover, since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it has also radiated to Jinan in Shandong, Xi'an in Shaanxi, Fukuoka in Japan, Kaifeng in Henan, Guilin in Guangxi, Yuyao in Zhejiang, Beijing in the capital, Fenggang in Guizhou and Tokyo in Japan.

The basic contents of the Lanting Collection include cultivation, bending water, drinking and writing poems, making prefaces, and writing books.

The calligraphy work Lanting Collection preface noun is explained as follows:

Lanting set preface is the Jin Dynasty of China (353 AD), the book sage Wang Xizhi in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province at the foot of Lanzhu Mountain to meet friends, write "the world's first line of books" to sell the core, also known as "Lanting Preface", "Linhe Preface", "Yu Jian with the Posture Post", "March 3rd Lanting Poetry Preface" and so on.

The calligraphy characteristics of the Lanting Collection Preface: the brushwork is rigid and soft, the lines are flexible, the dot painting is concise, the calligraphy is scattered and correct, and it has the beauty of respecting the side, giving way, and contrasting, and has become a model of the "beauty of neutrality" calligraphy style. The calligraphy of "Orchid Pavilion Preface" conforms to the most basic aesthetics of traditional calligraphy:

Literary but not flashy, quality but not wild, not agitated, gentle and elegant".

Lanting Collection Preface is the Chinese Jin Dynasty book sage Wang Xizhi in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province at the foot of Lanzhu Mountain to meet friends, write "the world's first line of books", also known as "Lanting Preface", "Linhe Preface", "Yu Ti", "Three Blocks of the Moon Three Days Lanting Poetry Preface" and so on.

In April 353 A.D. (the third day of the third month of the ninth year of Jin Yonghe, 1667 years ago), Wang Xizhi, who was then the internal history of Huiji, and his friends Xie An, Sun Sui and other 41 people drank and wrote poems in the Lanting Yaji of Huiji Shanyin. Wang Xizhi compiled these poems into a collection and wrote a preface, describing the incident of flowing water and expressing the inner feelings caused by it. This preface is the "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection".

and wrote a "Preface to the Lanting Collection".