First, the best running script in the world-Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting Collection
On April 22nd, 353 AD (March 3rd, Jin Yonghe, 9 years ago, 166 1 year ago), Wang Xizhi, who was then the civil history of Huiji, and his friends Xie An and Sun Chuo were drinking and writing poems in Ji Ya, Lanting, Huiji, Yin Shan.
Wang Xizhi compiled these poems into an episode, made a preface, described the swimming event, and expressed the inner feelings caused by it. This preface is Preface to Lanting Collection. And wrote "Preface to Lanting Collection".
Emperor Taizong highly praised him. He once wrote a biography of Wang Xizhi in the Book of Jin, praising him as "perfect". He also gave Guiwei a copy of Duty and buried it with the original.
The Preface to the Lanting Pavilion, with 28 lines and 324 words, is charming and elegant, with exquisite words and dancing, which seems to help the gods and men. It has been regarded as a masterpiece in the calligraphy circles of past dynasties. Mi Fei, a great calligrapher in Song Dynasty, called it "the first post of China's running script".
Anyone who studies running script in the future will fall in love with Lanting. The graceful and dancing brushwork of Preface to Lanting really makes our younger generation sigh and admire Wang Xizhi's superb calligraphy skills and fluent literary talent.
Second, the second running script in the world-Yan Zhenqing's "Sacrificing a Nephew"
The manuscript of "Sacrificing My Nephew" is Yan Jiming's manuscript, which is a memorial to his nephew. 23 lines, 234 words. This manuscript describes how Yan Gao Qing's father and son stood up and loyally opposed it during the Anshi Rebellion, so that "the father was trapped and the child died, and the nest turned upside down" brought justice into his heart. Throughout the pen, I feel like a tide, the calligraphy is magnificent, and the vertical pen is bold and unconstrained.
Moreover, this manuscript was written in extreme grief and indignation, regardless of the clumsiness of pen and ink, so the words fluctuate with the calligrapher's mood, which is purely a natural expression of spirit and peacetime work. This is rare in the whole history of calligraphy, so "Sacrifice to a Nephew" is one of the original works with great historical and artistic value.
Third, the third running script in the world-Su Shi's Huangzhou Cold Food Post
At the age of forty-five, Su Shi was rejected by the New Party because of the Wutai Poetry Case, the largest literary prison in the Song Dynasty, and was demoted to Huangzhou (now Huanggang, Hubei Province) as a group training assistant. He feels lonely in spirit and depressed and poor in life. In the fifth year of Yuan Feng (AD 1082), he improvised these two cold food poems and wrote Cold Food Post.
Cold Food Post is the representative work of Su Shi's running script. This is a poem to send a revival, and it is a sigh of life caused by Su Shi's relegation to Huangzhou for three years. The poem is desolate and affectionate, expressing Su Shi's melancholy and lonely mood at this time.
The calligraphy of this poem is produced in this mood and situation. The whole calligraphy is full of ups and downs, radiant and unrestrained, and there is no shortage of pens. Huangzhou Cold Food Poetry Post has a great influence in the history of calligraphy, which is called "the third running script in the world" and is also a leader in Su Shi's calligraphy works.
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The emergence and prosperity of running script
Running script is developed on the basis of regular script, which is a font between regular script and cursive script. In order to make up for the shortcomings of slow writing speed of regular script and illegible cursive script. "Go" means "go", so it is not as scribbled as cursive script, nor as straight as regular script. Whether it is cursive or cursive in essence.
Running script appeared at the same time as eight-part essay, and its form was very close to eight-part essay and later official script. This is equivalent to changing (chapter) cursive script from official script to other branches derived from "regular script". In addition to official script, the "regular script" in Huanling period was followed by "eight-part essay", so people think that running script is another branch of "eight-part essay".
In fact, it is the same as other calligraphy styles. It was originally founded as a general mass writer. As long as it is written in other calligraphy, it becomes a running script without official style. It can be seen everywhere in bamboo slips unearthed at the end of Han Dynasty. At the end of Han dynasty, running script was not widely used.
It was not until the appearance of Wang Xizhi in Jin Dynasty that it became popular. Running script into Wang Xizhi's hand perfectly combines practicality and artistry. From this, the Southern School of Running Calligraphy was founded, which became the most influential one in the history of calligraphy. Wang Xizhi also wrote Preface to Lanting Collection, which is known as the world's best running script.