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Timeless Masterpiece of Calligraphy

公元353年4日22日，偉大的《蘭亭序》華麗出場，韻傳后世。

那一天（農歷三月初三），王羲之在會稽山陰的蘭亭，組織了一場風雅集會。清幽的山水、秀麗的風景吸引了司徒謝安、辭賦家孫綽、矜豪傲物的謝萬、高僧支道林等社會名流的捧場。多虧了那場微醉的風雅，《蘭亭序》誕生了。

文化交流第四期的視點，即文化印記系列之二，推出重讀“蘭亭”。本組文章從文學史、書法史、人物史、收藏史、風光旅游及王羲之與中國書法在海內外流傳等角度，對王羲之及《蘭亭序》作了較全面的探討。

Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection was composed and handwritten by Wang Xizhi on April 22， 353AD. It was the third day of the third month on the lunar calendar. A group of celebrated artists， poets， writers， politicians and monks met at the Orchid Pavilion on the spring day. They drank wine and wrote poems. Intoxicated， Wang Xizhi wrote a preface to the collection of the poems created on the occasion， thus giving birth to the timeless masterpiece of calligraphy and prose. To mark this great cultural event of more than 1，600 years ago in Chinese history， this April issue of Cultural Dialogue explores Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection from various perspectives.