Lanting Preface ink treasures through the ages: Yu Shinan Lin Lanting Preface

The Lanting Preface ink treasure: Yu Shinan Pro Lanting Preface for the Lanting eight columns of the first book. This book "lanting preface" for Yu Shinan Pro, Yu Shinan had got wang xizhi seventh grandson monk zhi yong true tradition, and wang xizhi calligraphy style is very similar, can be said to be direct Wei Jin people rhyme. This pro this, the penmanship is warm, bone force is charming, obliterated the sharpness and angle of the point of painting, give a person a kind of calm and simple and quiet art feeling. This post is listed in the Lanting eight columns of the first column, the later often admire its "first column" of the name and learn.

This book has twenty-eight lines and three hundred and twenty-four words. Because of the end of the sticker, there is a small line of "I Zhang Jinjie Slave", Inscription of Yuan Wenzong "Tianli of the treasure" seal, so the Ming and Qing people also known as the "Tianli Lanting" or Therefore, it was also called "Tianli Lanting" or "Zhang Jinjie Nuben" in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Tow end with the title of the Song dynasty Wei Chang, Yang Yi, after the Ming dynasty Song Lian to Yang Jiazuo twelve inscription thirteen paragraphs. Later into the Qing dynasty within the Qianlong, with its inscription seal. Dong qichang inscription in the trek had put forward "like YuYongXing pro", early qing dynasty LiangQingBiao title said "TangYuYongXing pro post". As this post is a hook copy, the ink into the paper shallow, paper and with oil, wax, so the strokes are more to add a patch, but also by the framing of the wash, the ink off a lot, only a few words still retain some traces of ink, but the strokes are not damaged, the character shape is intact.

Yu Shinan (558--638), the word Bo Shi, Yuezhou Yuyao (now belongs to Zhejiang), served in Chen, Sui, Tang Taizong official to the Secretary Supervisor, sealed Yongxing County son, so there is a "Yu Yongxing" of the name. Calligraphy under the seventh grandson of Wang Xizhi, monk Zhiyong, concentrated unremittingly, the wonderful body, inherited the tradition of the two kings (Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi), history says that his late years of the book and Wang Xizhi and Wang Xizhi successive, and he and Ouyang Xun, Chu Suilang, Xue JI, and known as the "four great calligraphers of the early Tang Dynasty". His book is rounded and beautiful, soft on the outside and hard on the inside.

Tang Yu Shinan Lin "Lanting Preface", hand scroll, running script, white paper, 24.8 centimeters longitudinally, 57.7 centimeters horizontally, hidden in the Palace Museum in Beijing.