Song Tuoding Wuben Orchid Pavilion

[Song Tuo Ding Wu Ben Lan Ting]

Ding Wu Ben Lan Ting, hemp paper, cut and mounted in seven volumes, with each opening of 35 cm vertically and 10 cm horizontally
Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty obtained the authentic work of Wang Xizhi’s Preface to the Orchid Pavilion and ordered Ouyang Xun to copy it, engrave it in the academy, and give it to his officials. The Liang Dynasty of the Five Dynasties moved the capital of Bian. After breaking the Jin Dynasty, Liao Yelv Deguang took this stone to the north. Deguang died of illness in the middle of the way, and the stone was abandoned in the Tiger Forest. The monument was found in the Qingli period of the Song Dynasty (1041-1048) and placed in Dingzhou. In the Tang Dynasty, the Yiwu army was set up in Dingzhou, and in the Song Dynasty, the Yiwu army was changed to Dingwu by avoiding the taboo of Taizong Zhao Guangyi. Therefore, the stone inscription is called “Dingwu Benlan Pavilion”. There are also five different characters in the book “The Orchid Pavilion of Dingwu”. Since the Song Dynasty, there have been many engravings of the Preface to the Orchid Pavilion, and most of the critics take the Wu version of the European imitation as the authentic
The Preface to the Orchid Pavilion, handed down by later generations, was copied after the Tang Dynasty, and the charm of the pen and ink gradually faded away, but to a certain extent, it can also reflect the style of Wang Xizhi’s calligraphy, which can be regarded as one of the models for learning calligraphy. Since the Song Dynasty, “Ding Wu Ben Lan Ting” has been particularly valued. Zhao Mengfu of the Yuan Dynasty wrote a postscript after the Dingwu Book. He thought: “The right army is the best writer of the ancient and modern books, and the right army is the best writer of the book. The authentic work is now dead, and the stone carver is the best writer of the Dingwu Book.”
The Song Rubbings, “The Orchid Pavilion of the Dingwu Book”, which is collected in the Forbidden City, are well developed, including 4 paragraphs of the postscript by Pan Simu, 1 paragraph of the Wang Shouguan paragraph, and 35 copies of the “Lu Zhai Collection”, “Pan Simu”, and “Lotus Nest”
Sun Chengze of the Qing Dynasty, “Records of the Gengzi Selling the Summer”, Zhu Yizun, “Postscript of Jinshi Characters”, and Li Guangying, “A Brief Study of the Gold and Stone in Guanmiaozhai” and other books are recorded.

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