Lantingji Xu
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 115 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5146-8143-3
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Lantingji Xu (simplified Chinese: ????; traditional Chinese: ????; pinyin: Lantingji Xu; Wade–Giles: Lant'ingchi Hsu; literally "Preface to the Poems Collected from the Orchid Pavilion") or Lanting Xu (???) is a famous work of calligraphy by Wang Xizhi, composed in year 353. Written in semi-cursive script, it is among the most well-known and well-copied pieces of calligraphy in Chinese history. This work began as the preface to a collection of poetry seminal to the Chinese nature poetry movement, but developed somewhat of a life of its own: it describes the event during that year's Spring Purification Festival; in which, 42 literati including Xie An and Sun Chuo were present at a gathering at the Orchid Pavilion near Shaoxing, Zhejiang, at which they to composed poems, played music, and enjoyed the wine. The gentlemen engaged in a drinking contest: wine cups were floated down a small winding creek as the men sat along its banks; whenever...