During the May Day holiday, many tourists come to Shaoxing not only to visit scenic spots, old streets, and alleys, but also to the Shaoxing Museum and Lanting Calligraphy Museum to watch exhibitions of “Honoring the Hundred Generations – Wang Xizhi’s Genealogy” and “Making the Most of Wind – Wang Xizhi’s Letters”. In recent days, the exhibition halls of the Shaoxing Museum and the Lanting Calligraphy Museum have been bustling with tourists, making the museum as lively as a tourist attraction.
The two exhibitions of Wang Xizhi’s letters and Wang Xizhi’s genealogy, one from the National Library’s Ancient Books Museum and the other from the Palace Museum, are not only highlights of the 35th Lanting Calligraphy Festival, but also attract many tourists to appreciate.
At the Shaoxing Museum, the exhibition hall of “Honoring a Hundred Generations – The Genealogy of Wang Xizhi” is very popular. On May 2nd, the tourist volume of Shaoxing Museum reached 3909 people. A calligraphy enthusiast from Yuyao said, “When watching Wang Xizhi’s genealogy exhibition, I pay special attention to reading the explanations next to it. Those explanations can help us have a deeper understanding of the exhibition. The exhibition is very beneficial for calligraphy professionals, and I have seen many people learning calligraphy taking pictures page by page with their cameras
The Lanting Calligraphy Museum in the Lanting Scenic Area is also bustling with visitors, many of whom are mobilized by their families to come and see the exhibition of “Making the most of Fengliu – Wang Xizhi’s Calligraphy”. Xie Hui, a freshman student at Lanting Calligraphy and Art College, has come to the Lanting Calligraphy Museum for the second time to appreciate the exhibition of “Wang Xizhi’s Letters”. He told reporters that watching rubbings on site feels completely different from reading calligraphy and calligraphy. Like the Song Dynasty rubbings in the exhibition, it can give people a new sense of experience and pleasure. He also visited the exhibition “Wang Xizhi’s Genealogy” at the Shaoxing Museum. Xie Hui believes that these two exhibitions are of high level, and students majoring in calligraphy can learn a lot from them.
I heard that the Palace Museum’s collection of “Song Tuo Seventeen Calligraphy” and “Qing Weng Fang Gang Xing Shu Lun Jiang Calligraphy Volume” on display at the Shaoxing Museum will be “driving back to the palace” on May 6th. Yesterday, many local and foreign calligraphy enthusiasts made a special trip to the Shaoxing Museum to see the exhibition. Because the “Song Tuo Seventeen Ties” is the only old collection of Song rubbings in the Qing Palace, and the “Qing Weng Fang Gang Xing Shu Lun Jiang Tie Volume” is of great academic value, including textual research on historical inscriptions and rubbings. If we don’t see these two posts this time, it’s hard to say when we will wait next time.
However, the relevant person in charge of the organizer told reporters that although there are two posts about to “drive back to the palace”, the Palace Museum will send “Ming Wang Chong Cao Shu Li Bai Poetry Volume” and “Qing Tuo Yu Qing Zhai Post”. The “Ming Wang Chong Cao Shu Li Bai Poetry Volume” is a first-class collection in the Forbidden City. The “Qing Tuo Yu Qing Zhai Tie” includes the “Seventeen Tie” in the collection and is also a translated version of the Hongwen Library, reflecting the Song Tuo edition. These two posts are also difficult to see in daily life.
It is reported that the Shaoxing Museum and the Lanting Calligraphy Museum respectively exhibit the “Honor and Promotion of Hundred Generations – Wang Xizhi’s Genealogy” and “Do Your Best – Wang Xizhi’s.The ‘Zhidu’ exhibition will continue until May 30th.