Liu Gongquan’s Running Script of Lanting Poems (Biography)

[Liu Gongquan’s Running Script of Orchid Pavilion Poems (Biography)]

The Orchid Pavilion Poems volume, the biography of Liu Gongquan in the Tang Dynasty, silk version, running script, 26.5 cm in length and 365.3 cm in width
The explanatory text of “Lanting Poems” volume
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In the front of the volume, the title of Emperor Qianlong’s running script of the Qing Dynasty, “the style of remonstrance”, and the title of “the fourth of the eight pillars of the Lanting Pavilion”, are introduced, and a paragraph is inscribed. There is also a thin gold inscription, “Tang Liu Gongquan Book and Poems of Heroes”
After the volume, there are postscripts and donations by Song Xing Tianchong, Yang Xifu, Xi Zhi, Cai Xiang (later added), Li Chuyi, Sun Danian, Wang Yi, Huang Bosi (false), Song Shi, Jin Wang Wanqing, Ming Wang Shizhen (two paragraphs), Mo Shilong, Wen Jia, Zhang Fengyi, and Qing Wang Hongxu
There are “Imperial Book”, “Shuanglong”, “Xuanhe”, “Zhenghe”, “Neifu Book”, “Fenghua Treasure”, “Neifu Book Seal”, “Ruisi East Pavilion” (all false), as well as “Shaoxing” of the Song Dynasty, “Qiaozucheng” of the Yuan Dynasty, “Ke Jiusi” (all ink), Wang Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty, Gao Shiqi of the Qing Dynasty, Wang Hongxu of the Qing Dynasty, and Qianlong Neifu Seal
This book is said to be the 37 poems and preface written by Liu Gongquan on March 3, the ninth year of Yonghe (353), Emperor Mu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, when Wang Xizhi, Xie An, Sun Chuo, and others performed the ceremony at Lanting in Kuaiji (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang)
The postscript after the poem. The postscript after the Ming Dynasty is original. The postscript before the Ming Dynasty is authentic except for Cai Xiang and Huang Bosi, but it is all postscript and has nothing to do with this volume
The strokes in this volume are stiff and rough, and there are many withered edges, but it is more natural and easy. At the end of the volume, Huang Bosi in the Song Dynasty (pseudonym) said “Chuan Liu Shu”. Looking at the details, the pen of the individual characters is obviously not from Liu Shu. For example, the “Xi” in Sun Tong’s four-character poem, the “Ze” in Yu You’s four-character poem, and the “foot” in Wang Huanzhi’s four-character poem are very ugly and strange. The structure of the characters is also not stable enough, and it is not impetuous. Compared with the postscript of Wang Xianzhi’s “Send Pear Tie” written by Liu Shi, it is not only different in style, The connectors have nothing in common. From the perspective of poetry and prose, there are quite different points, such as: mistaking Sun Chuo’s four-character poem “Huai Bi logging” for “Huai Bi Dai water”, and mistaking Xie An’s four-character poem “Yi Xi Fu Zi” for “Yi Xi Xian Zi”. “Logging” is the language in the Book of Songs, “Confucius” refers to Confucius, and the manual is written by a person who is not proficient in writing and ink. No matter from the perspective of artistic characteristics or artistic level, this volume is by no means Liu Gongquan’s pen
This volume is a pre-Song copy. It can be seen from the 37 poems recorded that some words are not taboo in the Song Dynasty, such as the word “Xuan” in Xie An’s poem “Qici Xuanzhi, send instructions to Linqiu”, and the word “Lang” in Wang Suzhi’s poem “Jiahui Xinshi, open-minded and open-minded”. In addition, from the perspective of the main style of calligraphy, it is speculated that it should be written in the Tang Dynasty, which is roughly similar to Du Mu’s handwriting “Zhang Hao’s Poems”, and it is a straight letter, not a copy. As an ancient copy of the Tang Dynasty, this volume has the same literary value as the Remnant Volume of Selected Works, Lu Ji’s Short Songs, etc. (Bo 2554) and the Second Remnant Volume of Yutai’s New Songs (Bo 2503) in the Dunhuang Relics
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