What else is similar to the preface of the Lanting Collection

The most famous representative work is the Eastern Jin Dynasty calligrapher Wang Xizhi's "Orchid Pavilion Preface", the predecessors described its words as "the dragon jumps the heavenly gate, the tiger lies in the phoenix pavilion", and is praised as "the first line of books in the world". Tang Yan Zhenqing's book "Manuscript of the Sacrifice of Nephews" was written vigorously and unrestrainedly, and the ancients rated it as "the second book in the world". And Su Shi's "Huangzhou Cold Food Post" is known as "the third book in the world".

Those with regular script or close to regular script are called "line letters", and those with cursive script or close to cursive script are called "line grass". The famous representative work in the line is Li Yong's "Lushan Temple Tablet" in the Tang Dynasty, which is smooth and moist. There are such as Su Shi in the Song Dynasty, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu, Cai Xiang, Zhao Mengfu, Xian Yushu, Kang Li in the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yunming, Wen Zhengming, Dong Qichang, Wang Duo in the Ming Dynasty, He Shaoji in the Qing Dynasty, etc., are good at writing or grass, and there are many works handed down.

Wang Xizhi's Boyuan post is sunny when the snow is fast, the funeral post is a duck head pill post There is also a nephew manuscript known as the second line of books in the world The cold food post of the third line of books This is all handed down from generation to generation Give points I am a professional!

The manuscript of the nephew can be called the second line of the book

Wang Xizhi's "Holy Order".

The full name of the "Shengjiao Translation" is "Huairenji Wang Xi's Book of the Holy Order", also known as "Tang Ji Right Army Holy Religious Order and Records" and so on. Because the head of the stele is horizontally engraved with seven Buddha statues, it is also known as the "Seven Buddhas Holy Order".

In February of the 19th year of Tang Zhenguan (645 AD), Master Xuanzang sought Dharma in India for 17 years, and brought the Sanskrit Buddhist scriptures to Chang'an, and Taizong was very happy to see it. Xuanzang was ordered to live in Hongfu Temple in March of that year to engage in poetry. Zhenguan twenty-two years (AD 648), Taizong personally wrote the preface, the crown prince (Li Zhi, later Tang Gaozong) made a record, this preface and the record, and Taizong Xu Yi, the crown prince's note, Xuanzang translated the Heart Sutra, by the Hongfu Temple Shamen Huairen from the Tang Dynasty in the collection of Wang Xi's handwriting and folk king character ink collection words, lasted more than 20 years, in Xianheng three years (AD 672) carved into this tablet, the full name is [Tang Sanzang Holy Order].

The stele is 9 feet 4 inches and 6 minutes high, 4 feet 2 inches and 4 minutes wide, 30 lines of calligraphy, each line ranges from 83 to 88 characters, unfortunately it has been broken now. The existing forest of steles in Xi'an.

Huairen is a monk of Chang'an Hongfu Temple, can write a book, commissioned by the temples, borrow the handwriting of Wang Xi of the Inner Palace, painstakingly, lasted 24 years, set up to copy this monument. So that "Yi Shao is a true handiwork, salty in it". The inscriptions are selected from the various posts of the Wangshu, such as Zhi, Fun, Or, Group, Ran, Lin, Huai, Jiang, Feng, Lang, Is, Chong, You, Tuo, Wei, Lan, Shi, Ji and other words are taken from the "Lanting Preface".

Due to Huairen's profound attainments and rigorous attitude towards calligraphy, this stele dot painting momentum, ups and downs, and subtle Kexiao, fully embodies the characteristics and charm of Wang Shu, and reaches the realm of natural location, discipline and order, peace and simplicity. ”

Of course, this method of collecting characters also has considerable limitations. For example, there are few changes in the repeated words, and the knots of the characters that are flattened on the side lack echo. Since this stele, the collection of Wang Xi's book or other great calligraphers' books for the inscription of the stele continues to appear, such as the monk Daya collection of "Xingfu Temple Tablet", Tang Xuan's preface collection "New Translation of the Diamond Sutra" and so on are all excellent works, but still "set Wang Xi's holy order" is the most successful.

Song Tuo has a Mohuang book, which is now in the Tianjin Art Museum; Ming Dynasty Liu Zhengzong collection, now in the Shaanxi Museum; In 1972, the entire Song Tuoben was found between the cracks in the stone cracks of the Forest of Steles in Xi'an; Others include Guo Shangxian's collection, etc.; All of them are photocopied.

One of the copies of the Lanting Collection Preface, the Shenlong Edition, that is, the Feng Chengsu Copy, is currently the most used and most familiar version to the public, and it is more appropriate to use the Copy.

It is generally believed that the facsimile of Feng Chengsu belongs to the double-hook ink-filled book, so it is most similar to the original. However, critics believe that Shenlong Benwang's strokes are too much silver thread, which is more "contrived" and loses the proper appearance of writing.

In the eyes of many calligraphy learners, Shenlong is the only book that can reflect the original trace of "Lanting Collection Preface".

Here's what Shenlong Ben looks like:

For the vast majority of calligraphy learners, the "Orchid Pavilion Collection Preface" is a very good material for copying, you might as well practice more, and then find out the most sleepy and envious passages from it, and write it repeatedly.

The reasons why the Orchid Pavilion Preface is the first line of books in the world are as follows:

The chapter, structure, and brushwork of the Orchid Pavilion Preface are quite mature and mellow, and the rich artistic beauty is exuded between the paper gaps and ink cracks. With the pen is charming and vigorous, the integration of seals, official scripts, cursive chapters, the center of the turn to press, the lines such as flowing clouds.

Where 324 words, each word is Wang Xizhi molded into a fresh life, muscles and bones, flesh and blood, and endowed with different temperament, spirit and manners, or sitting, or lying, or walking, or walking, or dancing, or singing, within the size, some like regular script, some like grass, as if the sages are complete, hand in hand, elegant, full of rhyme. Wang Xizhi's wisdom is not only manifested in the changes in the font structure, but also in the structure of the heavy characters, more than 20 "zhi" characters are written without any of the same, each with its own style and charm.

In terms of the layout of the whole text, with the vertical line as the center, the text is uneven and staggered, but the words are related and inseparable, and there is a first-class rhythm flowing between the lines. Huang Ting insisted that "the "Orchid Pavilion Preface" is grass, and Wang Youjun is proud of his life, and he has watched it repeatedly, without a single word, which is unsatisfactory." Dong Qichang, a painter of the Ming Dynasty, wrote in "Essays on Painting Zen Room":

The right army's "Orchid Pavilion Preface", the chapter is the first in ancient and modern times, and its words are all born with reflections, small or large, as they are, all into the law, so it is a god also. ”

The Orchid Pavilion Preface is appreciated from a literary point of view, the text is beautiful and tranquil, and the emotions are open and leisurely. It is a masterpiece of the ages; From the perspective of calligraphy, it embodies the ideal paradigm of classical aesthetics of balance and neutrality between pen and meaning, bone and flesh, form and spirit, rigidity and softness. Therefore, the "Orchid Pavilion Preface" is known as the "crown of the law", and has been carefully studied by calligraphers of all generations and respected as "the first line of books in the world".

Lanting Preface, also known as "Lanting Collection Preface", "Lanting Banquet Preface", "Linhe Preface", "Yu Preface", "Yu Ti". Written by Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher of the Jin Dynasty, the beauty of the mountains and rivers around the Lanting Pavilion and the joy of the party are recorded in the "Orchid Pavilion Preface", expressing the author's feelings that the good times are not long and life and death are impermanent. The book of the law is passed down from generation to generation, a total of 28 lines, 324 characters, the chapter, the structure is not, and the penmanship is perfect, which is his proud work in middle age.

Its calligraphy has extremely high artistic value, Wang Xizhi and Yan Zhenqing's "Sacrifice Nephew Ji Ming Manuscript", Su Shi's "Cold Food Post" and called the three major lines of calligraphy and calligraphy.

"Orchid Pavilion Preface" is Wang Xizhi's most important calligraphy work, in the technique, almost perfect, become a model of later calligraphy, has the reputation of "the world's first line of calligraphy". Wang Xizhi (303-361) was originally from Linyi, Langya (now Shandong), and later moved to Shanyin (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang), and was a great calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and was respected as a "book saint" by later generations. His son Wang Xianzhi's calligraphy is also very good, people call them two "two kings", another son Wang Ningzhi official to the left general, because he was the general of the right army, Sun Qing Nashi called "Wang Youjun", "Wang Huiji".

Representative works include: regular script "Le Yi Theory", "Huang Tingjing", cursive script "Seventeen Posts", Xingshu "Aunt's Post", "Sunny Post when the Snow is Fast", "Funeral Post", Xingkai "Lanting Collection Preface" and so on.

This calligraphy is mainly centered on the pen, and the strokes are more exposed, the expression is delicate, and the silk is smooth and beautiful. The structure of the word, the body is longitudinal, the left is low and the right is high. The size of the word is corresponding, the length is alternate, and the virtual and the real are born together.

There are rows in the layout, there are no columns, and each row is swaying and turbulent, and there are many changes. The most commendable thing is that from the "unexciting" style of "Orchid Pavilion Preface", there are the author's skillful pen and ink skills, profound traditional skills, extensive cultural literacy and lofty artistic sentiments, which have reached the peak of the realm.

Wang Xizhi's "Orchid Pavilion Preface" is written in lines. Xingshu is a general term, which is divided into two types: Xingkai and Xingcao. It is developed on the basis of regular script, a font between regular script and cursive script, which is produced to make up for the slow writing speed of regular script and the difficulty of cursive script to be recognizable.

"line" means "to walk", so it is not scribbled like cursive or upright like regular script. In essence, it is a cursive or cursive italization of regular script. The one with more regular method than the big grass method is called "line Kai", and the grass method is more than the regular method is called "line grass".

The practicality and artistry of the line script are high, and the regular script is a text symbol, with high practicality and hard work; In contrast, cursive writing is highly artistic, but it is relatively less practical.

"Orchid Pavilion Preface" is a line of calligraphy, but from its round and beautiful line of script font can feel the completeness of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Kai Law, and the backbone of the regular script is implied in Yanmei's line book. The regular script of the Southern Dynasty is very developed, but judging from Wang Xizhi's biography, its outstanding achievements are obviously in the line and grass.

Compared with the Han and Wei dynasties and the Western Jin Dynasty, Wang Xizhi's calligraphy style is characterized by delicate and changeable structures, and the past calligraphy style has taken the ancient and clumsy way, such as "Pingfu Post", but Wang Xizhi can lead the calligraphy skills from pure and natural to pay more attention to beauty and achieve the realm of refinement, and the ancient clumsy opposite to "beautiful".