This brocade box is not big, it is also made of golden nanmu. Yang Jing just opened the box and took a look at the things inside, and immediately threw the box into the storage space.

Because there is nothing in the box except a piece of paper that looks like raw rice paper.

It was precisely because the box contained a piece of paper that Yang Jing was so panicked that he threw the box into the storage space. The things here have been kept for more than a thousand years. Who knows if the paper inside the box will change other things after the box is opened?

The most important thing is that even after just a glance, Yang Jing could see that this piece of paper was much older than the paper used for hand-copied Buddhist scriptures I had discovered before.

Those hand-written Buddhist scriptures are written on hard yellow paper. If the hard yellow paper is preserved, it will be absolutely fine for a thousand years. However, the piece of paper placed in the brocade box I just saw was obviously not written on hard yellow paper, but it looked more like the earlier Cai Lun paper.

After throwing the box with paper into the storage space, Yang Jing then relaxed his mind slightly, and his consciousness immediately entered the storage space. He opened the brocade box again with his consciousness and gently opened the paper.

"Fortunately, the paper is well preserved. At least it doesn't happen if it turns into ashes when it touches..." Yang Jing's heart was relieved, but when he saw the handwriting exposed after the paper was opened, his heart that had just fallen back to its original place beat violently again without control.

"In the ninth year of Yonghe, the year is in Guichou, and at the beginning of late spring, I met at Lanting in Shanyin, Kuaiji..."

After reading just a dozen words, Yang Jing felt his head "buzzing"!

"Is this the "Preface to the Lanting Collection"?"

No wonder Yang Jing thinks so. He is so familiar with the dozen words he just saw.

On the third day of the third month of the ninth year of Yonghe, Jin Dynasty, Wang Xizhi, who was the inner historian of Kuaiji at that time, and his friends Xie An, Sun Chuo and others drank and wrote poems at the Lanting Collection in Shanyin, Kuaiji. Wang Xizhi compiled these poems into a collection and wrote a preface, recording the incident of the flowing cup and water, and expressing the inner feelings caused by this. This preface is "Preface to the Lanting Collection", and Wang Xizhi personally wrote an "Preface to the Lanting Collection".

And the beginning of these dozen words is the beginning of the world-famous "Preface to the Lanting Collection".

Yang Jing took a deep breath and tried hard to emptie himself to calm down. Only then did he continue to read with consciousness. As a result, the 28 lines and 324 words of the whole text are exactly the same as the "Preface to the Lanting Collection".

The most important thing is that Yang Jing only saw a small number of appreciation seals on this piece of paper that was suspected to be the original copy of Wang Xizhi. Unlike later generations, there were appreciation seals everywhere in the copy.

Could this be the original work of Wang Xizhi?

You should know that after Wang Xizhi wrote the "Preface to the Lanting Collection", the original works were kept in the family. It was not until Emperor Taizong of Tang that Li Er took them into his hands. It is said that after Li Er's death, he selfishly buried the original works of "Preface to the Lanting Collection" with him.

If Li Er really buried the original works of "Preface to the Lanting Collection", it would just show why there were so few appreciative seals on this "Preface to the Lanting Collection".

This "Preface to the Lanting Collection" has not been passed down from the disasters collected by later generations!

Yang Jing resisted the excitement in his heart and asked the Holy Ring to identify the "Preface to the Lanting Collection". However, the answer given by the Holy Ring was that Yang Jing could no longer control himself. Even though he was wearing a mask, he shouted twice excitedly.

"Preface to the Lanting Collection", Wang Xizhi, 353 years."

This "Preface to the Lanting Collection" is actually the original work of Wang Xizhi!

Yang Jing couldn't help but be unhappy. It was because the name of "Preface to the Lanting Collection" was too big.

To put it badly, in some aspects, this copybook, known as "the world's number one running script", is even bigger than the name of the imperial seal.

Of course, in terms of the degree of preciousness, the ten "Preface to the Lanting Collection" are not as good as the national jade seal. The national jade seal is the most treasure of the country that carries the national fortunes of China for thousands of years, while the "Preface to the Lanting Collection" is just a calligraphy, and the two are not at the same level at all.

In the words of holy decrees, the imperial seal is a super item, and the "Preface to the Lanting Collection" can only be regarded as a second-grade item at best, and even a treasure like the "Yongle Encyclopedia" and "Siku Quanshu".

However, the imperial seal has been missing for thousands of years, and the original version of "Yongle Encyclopedia" has also been missing for hundreds of years. All the copies left are still incomplete. Modern people no longer have any confidence in finding these treasures.

However, although the original works of "Preface to the Lanting Collection" disappeared early, even longer than the time when the imperial seal disappeared, this copybook has been copied and copied and copied, and in modern times, it has been collected in museums for the public to appreciate. Therefore, in terms of some aspects of fame, "Preface to the Lanting Collection" is extremely famous.

Now, the original work of "Preface to the Lanting Collection" suddenly appeared in front of Yang Jing. How can Yang Jing not be happy? Not to mention his masters, especially the second master, Mr. Xiao, is a famous calligrapher. Yang Jing was influenced by Mr. Xiao and loved calligraphy and painting very much.

Now that the original works of "Preface to the Lanting Collection" have appeared, Yang Jing is of course excited.

However, how could this "Preface to the Lanting Collection" appear here? Didn't this copybook be buried in Zhaoling with Emperor Li Er?

When it comes to Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, the first thing that most people think of is his outstanding political achievements. But in fact, in addition to being a great emperor, Li Er is also a calligraphy enthusiast, especially his favorite calligraphy by the saint of calligraphy Wang Xizhi. The works of other calligraphers are overshadowed in Li Er's eyes, and his obsession with Wang Xizhi's calligraphy is no less than that of today's star-chasing people and enthusiasts.

So Li Er began to search for the original calligraphy of Wang Xizhi. If his superiors liked each other, his subordinates naturally knew how to meet their preferences. Various "authorized calligraphy works" of Wang Xizhi emerged in Chang'an City for a while. Old ministers such as Chu Suiliang, Ouyang Xun also began to identify the original calligraphy of Wang Xizhi day and night.

According to historical records, the ministers identified more than 2,000 original works of Wang Xizhi, and finally presented them to Li Er together. However, among the many original works, Wang Xizhi's literary treasure "Preface to the Lanting Collection", which made Emperor Li Er unable to let go, so he began to explore his whereabouts.

In the end, hard work paid off. Li Er learned that the original works of "The Preface to the Lanting Collection" were preserved in the hands of a disciple of Biancai, a disciple of the seventh-generation grandson of Wang Xizhi. Li Er asked for it many times and was rejected by Biancai. In order to get it, Li Er did not hesitate to send the supervisor Xiao Yi to dress up as a scholar to approach Biancai, so he looked for an opportunity to obtain "The Preface to the Book of the Lanting Collection".

Li Er regards the original works of "Preface to the Lanting Collection" that Li Er has obtained hard-earned as treasures, so it is rumored that his original works will be separated from the world as a burial object when Li Er died.

But what is interesting is that after Wen Tao, a famous tomb robber in history during the Five Dynasties, did not see any trace of "Preface to the Lanting Collection" on his list of unearthed cultural relics. Therefore, there are rumors that Li Er's son, Li Zhi, secretly exchanged for the original work of "Preface to the Lanting Collection" and was later buried in the Qianling Mausoleum where Li Zhi and Wu Zetian were buried together.

But now the original works of "Preface to the Lanting Collection" appear in the tomb built by Wu Zetian for himself. What does this mean?
Chapter completed!