Introduction to "Mo Yue Qianqiu Meets the Sage of Calligraphy":
Su Yanchen, a master of both contemporary calligraphy and painting, is trapped in a troubled world in the art world, with a bleak road ahead. When restoring "Lanting Preface", the ink talisman Wang Xizhi left thousands of years ago was triggered, and the soul traveled through the Northern Song Dynasty.
From Bianliang to Jiaoshan, from Hangou to Kuaiji, he made friends with Su Huang and Mi Cai, asked Yan Zhenqing's inner thoughts, and searched for folk hermits - the boatman who wrote on the sand with branches, the orphan girl who used her fingernails to write in the void, the retired water official who carved monuments under the water, and the Jiang monk who used waves as his brushwork. He visited monuments and relics along the way and understood the true meaning of the origin of calligraphy and painting. Yan Qingyi used his pen to wash the painting as a gift, and Li Shishi left it blank with his ink clothes - two love affairs that spanned time and space, both are regrets and achievements in the practice of pen and ink.
When he wrote a new "Lanting Preface" at the former site of Lanting, and added all the names of those who were demoted in the miasma of Yingzhou, he finally understood that the true source of writing and ink is not in a certain Dharma sticker, but in the blood inheritance of countless unknown people who protect their veins with their hands and renew their veins with their pens. The thousand-year cultural context continues here.
