Foreword to Lanting Pavilion
兰亭集序
The “ Foreword to Lanting Pavilion，’ is the best-known example of Wang Xizhi running hand. It is regarded as the “First Running Hand Under the Sun. ” It is said that on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, in the year 353 (the ninth year of the reign of Emperor Mudi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty), Wang Xizhi and a group of eminent scholars gathered at Lanting Pavilion in Shanyin, Kuaiji, where, according to the conventions of an old sacrificial ceremony, they drank and enjoyed themselves on the bank of a river. When the wine cup flowing on the water stopped before one of them，that person would compose a poem immediately, otherwise he would have to take a drink. Wang wrote a foreword to the collection of all these poems： the “Foreword to Lanting Pavilion. ”
“兰亭集序”是王羲之行书的代表作。它被认为是“天下第一行书”。 有人说，在353年农历三月三日，（东晋穆帝统治的第九年），王羲之和一批著名学者聚集在会稽山阴兰亭，根据一个古老的祭祀仪式的惯例，他们在河边喝酒游玩。当其中一个人的酒杯在水上停止流动之前，那个人会立即组成一首诗当场吟诵，否则他不得不罚酒一杯。王羲之在“兰亭集序”中写了所有这些诗集的前言。
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