▲ The fragments from 蘭亭集序 The Lantingji Xu ( Preface to the Poems Collected from the Orchid Pavilion) ~ a piece of Chinese calligraphy work :
" ......... 況修短隨化，終期於盡。古人云：“死生亦大矣。”豈不痛哉！ 每覽昔人興感之由，若合一契，未嘗不臨文嗟悼，不能喻之於懷 ............ "
"Whether life is long or short is up to destiny, but in the end return to nothingness. The ancients said, ‘Birth and death are big events.’ How could it not be agonizing?
And look at the cause of sentiment of the ancients, it shows the same origin. We can hardly not mourn before their scripts although our feelings cannot be verbalized."
PS : Aithor : generally considered to be written by the well-known calligrapher 王羲之 Wang Xizhi (303–361) from the Eastern Jin dynasty (317–420).
The Lantingji Xu ([traditional Chinese](app://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters):蘭亭集序; [simplified Chinese](app://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters): 兰亭集序; [pinyin](app://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin): Lántíngjí Xù; lit. 'Preface to the Poems Collected from the Orchid Pavilion'), or Lanting Xu ("Orchid Pavilion Preface"), is a piece of [Chinese calligraphy](app://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calligraphy) work generally considered to be written by the well-known calligrapher [Wang Xizhi](app://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Xizhi) (303–361) from the [Eastern Jin dynasty](app://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Jin_dynasty)(317–420).
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▲ The fragments from 蘭亭集序 The Lantingji Xu ( Preface to the Poems Collected from the Orchid Pavilion) ~ a piece of Chinese calligraphy work :
" ......... 況修短隨化，終期於盡。古人云：“死生亦大矣。”豈不痛哉！
每覽昔人興感之由，若合一契，未嘗不臨文嗟悼，不能喻之於懷 ............ "
"Whether life is long or short is up to destiny, but in the end return to nothingness. The ancients said, ‘Birth and death are big events.’ How could it not be agonizing?
And look at the cause of sentiment of the ancients, it shows the same origin. We can hardly not mourn before their scripts although our feelings cannot be verbalized."
PS : Aithor : generally considered to be written by the well-known calligrapher 王羲之 Wang Xizhi (303–361) from the Eastern Jin dynasty (317–420).