How to understand the concept of life and death in Wang Xizhi's Lanting Preface?

The two lines about the concept of life and death in it are: "I know that a death is an illusion, and that Qi Peng Zhen is a delusion". The concept of life and death of the Jin people. As a preface to a book, this article is extremely special, the author in the completion of the general necessary "account", a unique loom to make use of the subject of play, out of a world between the feelings of life. In this article, this point of exposition is the most important, it is also the main theme of the article. Qian Zhongshu said: "Look far, everything and sad." The Lanting Collection Preface repeatedly sighs - "death and life is also great, is not it painful!" The word "pain" cohesion of Wang Xizhi's deep sense of sadness and a deep insight into the limitations of life. Therefore, from the nature to get the pleasure of life, "letter can also be happy". And from nature, we can feel the sadness of life, "between the top and the bottom, has become obsolete", "the situation of the short and medium with the transformation, the end of the period in the end". Nature is self-contained and self-sufficient without external demands, while life needs external things to fulfill. Nature is eternal, but life is so short and endless, and more often than not, "the heart wants but the thing does not work", so "the contradiction of life" is endless. Some people analyze that, in the "Lanting Preface" the author used the topic to give play to his concept of life and death, is its open-minded character. However, after all, he lived in the declining state of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, most of the scholars are demoralized, do not seek progress, he can not be said to have no effect. Therefore, the text appeared in a low tone, for example, to "repair the short with the chemical, the end of the period in the end," said the death, it is difficult to be demanding. In this regard, the author thinks that it is questionable, it is not a question of "hard to be harsh", it is also not the fact of the time to say that the Eastern Jin Dynasty scholar "will be depressed, do not seek to make progress". This is in the "Shishu Xinyao" is a lot of records. In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, due to the darkness of society and the cruelty of reality, people turned to their inner world and spirituality. In a way, the spirit of people in the Wei and Jin Dynasties was the most liberated and free. The "mood of life" and "cosmic consciousness" of modern philosophy sprouted from the transcendent realm of the Eastern Jin people. Their fear of time and death did not inevitably lead to negative pessimism, but rather to a stronger urge to create, to resist the "emptiness" of life with solid practical efforts. This kind of lamentation is not depression, not silence, but rising up and fighting. "Walking on the mountain yin road is like traveling in a painting". Read the "Lanting Preface", the forest that covers the forest, that penetrates the clouds everywhere green bamboo, and the secluded water at ease playing geese, perhaps one day "resurrected" in your mind, activate your deep reverie on the culture of that era!