"Lanting Collection" in the eyes
Why did the "Orchid Pavilion Collection" of the first line of the world be changed and painted, painted and changed? Wang Xizhi's masterpiece is known as the top work that attaches equal importance to literature and calligraphy. It can be said that there are no ancients before and no ones after. Literarily speaking, it is this "Orchid Pavilion Preface" that allows the author's state of mind to integrate into the technique and give the calligraphy a charm. It is precisely with the blessing of this charm that we can see that there are more than 6 kinds of horizontal writing methods of light strokes and at least 7 kinds of paintings in the "Orchid Pavilion Preface", which can be called the top work of calligraphy.
The First Book of the World", "Orchid Pavilion Collection"
It started out as a gathering of ordinary friends
The first sentence of the "Orchid Pavilion Preface" is: Yonghe Ninth Year, the age is ugly, at the beginning of the late spring, it will be in the Lanting pavilion of Huiji Shanyin. The book introduces: On the third day of the third month of the ninth year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, ancient times called this day the "Shangwei Festival". What happened on this day was very ordinary, and Wang Xizhi, who was still engaged in politics at that time, invited 41 figures with heads and faces to come to the HuijiShanyin Lanting pavilion to have such an open-air party.
Friends meet
Literati Fighting Poems: The Birth of the Orchid Pavilion Collection
The literati drank three times and overcame five tastes, which began a literary exchange, drinking and fighting poetry with each other. In the words of our current people, this is the "inner volume". It is recorded that 42 people made 37 poems. In the end, everyone knows that Wang Xizhi's calligraphy is well written, and together we propose to let him learn a preface. Lao Wang's wine is strong, others have expressed it, and he can't resign, so he raised his pen and waved it in one go, and the "Lanting Collection Sequence" that won the ancient and modern times was born.
The fighting poems between the literati are also volumeted
The first half of "Orchid Pavilion Prologue": relaxed and pleasant
In fact, the content is very simple, which probably means that the weather is good today, and my friends and I got together here and had a good time. We sat by the river playing games, looking up at the sky and looking endlessly, and everyone was laughing happily, laughing so fast that they had no strength. You see, writing here, Wang Xizhi describes a happy thing, but the words turn sharply, and the author is from Jing Yuren, sending out endless sadness, and even a little sad sigh. He lamented fate and time.
First Half: Relaxed and enjoyable
The second half of "Orchid Pavilion Preface": endless emotions and heartache
Wang Xizhi said in the second half of the "Orchid Pavilion Preface" that life is so small and insignificant in the vast universe. The comparison between life and the universe in just a few decades is really not worth mentioning, and people's lives are destined to die. You see that some people like to drink and talk with three or five friends at home on weekdays, and some people like to be debauched and live an unrestrained life. Although we have different destinies, we will feel very happy doing what we like. But that joy will soon be gone. Because this time changes instantaneously too quickly. We will all grow old immediately, die soon, we will soon become a display of history, and whenever we think of it, how can it not make people feel sad.
In the second half of the "Orchid Pavilion Collection Sequence", endless emotions are emitted
The style of "Orchid Pavilion Preface" is closely related to Wang Xizhi's personal experience
The great thing about everyone watching "Lanting Collection" is that it adds personal emotions to the calligraphy. The first half of the writing scene, saying that it is a very happy party, the second half of the writing of people, written so tragic and painful. This mood has a strong relationship with Wang Xizhi's life situation. Wang Xizhi loved calligraphy when he was young and wanted to be a calligrapher. Unable to withstand the soft and hard bubbles of his two uncles and father-in-law, he engaged in politics, and it was also difficult step by step in the political arena, and he experienced half a lifetime of intrigue and struggle in the imperial court, and he had already seen the reality clearly. At the age of 53, he ran to his parents' grave and vowed never to be an official again. He thinks that since real life is so painful, and life is so short and precious, why should I have to fall victim to political struggles. Thus the scholar "Wang Xizhi" was reborn. When he wrote the Orchid Pavilion Collection, it was the period when Wang Xizhi was completely disappointed in the officialdom.
Book Saint Wang Xizhi
Stylistic comparison of the period before and after the work
In the first half of the work, Wang Xizhi wrote very easily, the calligraphy lines were steady and solemn, and it could be seen that his mood was cheerful and joyful. Writing about the scene of this gathering and everyone chanting poems together, Wang Xizhi's brushwork is casual and light. Wang Xizhi wrote the preface after drinking, and he also felt that it was a draft anyway, so the more he wrote, the freer he was, and he wrote faster, and he didn't care too much about the size details of the words and words. But in the later stage, whether in the mentality or in the use of words up a 180-degree turn, writing and deliberation, scribbling and changing, changing and scribbling. He said that human life is too short, and our happiness today will become a display of history, and I want to keep this happiness, but I also know that it is impossible. So at that time he was conflicted in his heart.
Orchid Pavilion Set Order
Why are there so many alterations in the work?
If you look closely, almost all the smearing and revision of this manuscript occurred in the second half of the stage. In the book "The History of Chinese Art", the four words in it are "not painful", and the "pain" in it is obviously changed. Originally, it may have been a "mourning" word, but the word "mourning" is more introverted and not enough to express his mood. So he changed "mourning" to "pain", thus fully releasing Wang Xizhi's strong emotions. The cleverness of the "Orchid Pavilion Collection" is to inject charm into the calligraphy, we know that in the era before Wang Xizhi, most of them were mainly seal books, this glyph, relatively old-fashioned, it focuses on the rules of one board and one glance. At that time, the word was a tool, but Wang Xizhi's works injected it with artistic beauty.
Modification of the word "pain"
"The History of Chinese Art in Big Talk": 21 ways to write "zhi" in the Orchid Pavilion preface
We see in Yi Gongzi's "History of Chinese Art in Big Talk" that there are more than six ways to write horizontally with light strokes in the "Orchid Pavilion Collection". There are also nearly seven ways to write paintings, and what makes later generations of calligraphy scholars more relish is the 21 characters with different postures in the work, which also explains the truth that words are born from the heart. It is said that when Wang Xizhi woke up the next day and saw the draft of the previous day, he thought that he had written well and wanted to write it again, but how could he not have the calligraphy charm of that situation. It is also this work that establishes the status of the book Saint Wang Xizhi in the calligraphy world in one fell swoop.
21 ways to write the word "zigzag"
The knowledge analysis of this article is inspired by Yi Gongzi's "History of Chinese Art"
The knowledge analysis of this article comes from a small chapter in the new book "The History of Chinese Art" by Yi Gongzi, a blogger I particularly like, the analysis of Wang Xizhi and Lan Tingxu. As soon as this new book was launched, within less than 24 hours, it rushed to the first place in the double material of Dangdang's new book list and art list. I bought a copy for sharing with my friends at the first time, it was very heavy in my hand, it used a lock line, and it could be spread on the desktop to read 180 degrees without obstacles. Various works of art in the book, such as the Orchid Pavilion And the Qingming River Map, are displayed with such long spans, which is really a pleasure to read. In the future, I will continue to interpret the knowledge in the book and share this masterpiece with you, so that friends can go to the museum without spending money, and they can also appreciate the beauty of Chinese art.
"The History of Chinese Art" is worth collecting and reading
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Today, through Yi Gongzi's book "The History of Chinese Art", we have restored the situation of Wang Xizhi's creation for more than 1600 years. I hope you all get something out of it. Today is just a small knowledge point of this book, and today I will continue to share with you Yi Gongzi's masterpiece "The History of Chinese Art".