Gu Xueting still suppressed her little bit of bad taste. Just from the fact that Ning Chen has never joined the calligraphy and painting club or the martial arts club, it can be seen that Ning Chen is really a low-key person.
If she could drag Ning Chen to the calligraphy and painting club today, it was already a victory. Of course, she would not reveal Ning Chen's background again. If she made Ning Chen unhappy, the gain would outweigh the loss.
After Ning Chen had reviewed all the calligraphy, he saw Gu Xueting herself spreading a four-foot square of rice paper on the table on one side.
Ning Chen joked, "Why don't you use six feet of paper?"
Gu Xueting's eyes lit up and she said with some anticipation, "Is it okay?"
"Okay." Ning Chen laughed and said, "Aren't you writing the "Preface to the Lanting Collection"? How can four feet of paper be enough?"
"I'll go, "Preface to the Lanting Collection", Senior Brother Ning is going to challenge the top!"
Gu Xueting's eyes brightened, and she almost jumped for joy. She had long wanted to read Ning Chen's calligraphy again, but it was just inconvenient to ask for calligraphy. You must know that although her calligraphy is not good, it does not mean that she has no interest in calligraphy.
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So Gu Xueting directed several members to quickly put together two tables, put on the largest paper, prepared pens, inks, paper and inkstones, and finally made room for Ning Chen.
Ning Chen smiled slightly and was not polite, so he came to the desk, picked a brush of moderate thickness, recalled the contents of "The Preface to the Lanting Collection" in his mind, and was ready to write.
But just as he picked up the brush, Ning Chen suddenly had a new idea in his heart.
Then Ning Chen's eyes suddenly became blank, and his whole body seemed to have been pressed on the pause button, standing motionless on the spot.
"Huh?" Seeing that Ning Chen had already raised his hand to pick up the pen, but suddenly stopped, the people around him were a little surprised.
"Why isn't Senior Brother Ning moving?" someone asked in a low voice.
"Is this brewing emotions?" a newbie was thinking.
"Haha, he must have forgotten the content of "The Preface to the Lanting Collection"," one of Gu Xueting's flower protectors said in a low voice.
"The Preface to the Lanting Collection" has a very high status in the calligraphy world. At least in terms of popularity, it is almost comparable to the status of "Tao Te Ching" in Taoism. If you say that a Taoist priest has forgotten the content of "Tao Te Ching", it is almost a slap in the face.
Gu Xueting glanced at the classmate. If Ning Chen had forgotten the content of "The Preface to the Lanting Collection", wouldn't he have shown it until he started writing? Be smarter!
Ning Chen obviously had some new ideas, and Gu Xueting waved her hand to signal everyone not to disturb him.
"Classmate Ning, what's wrong with you? Why haven't you started writing?" Du Yuan asked with a concerned look on his face, as if he really cared about Ning Chen.
"Du Yuan!" Gu Xueting was already a little angry. If this disturbed Ning Chen and caused him to abnormally perform at his best, Gu Xueting would never forgive Du Yuan.
This guy who knows nothing but thinks he is, will never know the true value of a piece of art.
His performance was no different than a clown in Gu Xueting's eyes!
Ning Chen raised his eyes and glanced at Du Yuan, and sneered "chi" from the corner of his mouth. His disdain was palpable, and then he stopped paying attention to him at all. His eyes were focused and he started writing casually!
"Preface to the Lanting Collection" is Wang Xizhi's representative work. It is known as "the best running script in the world". It is highly praised by famous calligraphers in the past dynasties. The whole text is charming and elegant, and the words are smart. It combines the elegance of Taoism and the quality of Confucianism, advocating for heaven and man.
Unity, natural harmony, both form and spirit, brought the word "yun" to its extreme, which was also the highest state pursued by Chinese people. Therefore, it was praised by Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty as "perfection" and was eventually buried with the original work. Only the copy version has been passed down to the world.
Now that he has started writing, the movement of the running script is naturally completed in one go. Therefore, Ning Chen's shoulders are slumped and his elbows are dropped, and his writing is vigorous. When writing, his lower body is steady, his shoulders are belted, his wrists are guided by his elbows, his brush strokes are turning, and his writing techniques are changeable.
In the eyes of everyone, Ning Chen's brushwork is smooth and smooth, hiding the edge, calling the decoration, hanging the pen back to the edge, pulling the thread, reflecting the belt, from square to round, from round to square.
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The beauty of this kind of writing combined with the charm of the calligraphy itself made everyone present dare not show off for fear of disturbing Ning Chen's rhythm.
This situation made Du Yuandu, who didn't care much about it, a bit nervous. He suppressed his anger at Ning Chen's disdainful sneer just now.
"Preface to the Lanting Collection" has 324 words in total, plus the title and signature. Ning Chen also wrote it for a long time, then he stopped writing, took two steps back, and then he had the heart to appreciate what he had just written.
It is a work, or it is a cultivation method.
That's right, it's about practicing martial arts. Ning Chen paused just as he was writing. He remembered Bilanzhou's "Peeping the Sky Treasure Mirror" and Shi Potian's "Tai Xuan Jing" in the novel, so he thought about what he could do.
Can't we add a little bit of material to this calligraphy to make it different from Wang Xizhi's calligraphy, but it also contains a cultivation method?
He only had such a little time, and of course he couldn't create a cultivation method out of thin air. Then he would not be a monk in the Ning Yuan stage, but a powerful person in the Nascent Soul stage, so he just created a basic training method from Bilan Continent.
The qi refining method is integrated into the work. Following the idea of "Tai Xuan Jing", the movement route of the true qi is hidden in the calligraphy and painting. If you really meet a destined person and observe this work for a long time, you will indeed have the opportunity to understand this work.
Kung Fu, one who steps into the path of cultivation.
"You can practice the yellow-level middle-level technique to the fifth level of Qi refining. Even if the spiritual energy does not recover, you can still practice it. It depends on whether there is such a destined person." Ning Chen thought to himself.
"It feels so beautiful!" You Mengxin exclaimed in a low voice.
"Hell, I feel like those words are alive!"
"It's good, but why does it feel so different from the original version?" Some people were a little confused.
"Is this the legendary similarity in spirit but not in form?"
"Haha, you mean that he can already innovate in Wang Xizhi's realm?"
"Hey, don't you dare, I didn't say it, I didn't say it, I can't offend you!"
"Oh, did Ning Chen just say that he was imitating Wang Xizhi's style? This is Ning Chen's own cursive calligraphy work!" Gu Xueting said angrily.
Ning Chen's calligraphy and the handed down version are not completely similar in font and structure. Of course, Gu Xueting discovered this situation at the first time, but Ning Chen's running script is still very high in beauty and charm, at least for everyone present.
She was not qualified to evaluate his calligraphy, so Gu Xueting took it for granted that Ning Chen completed the creation of "Preface to the Lanting Anthology" in his own running script style.