Autumn Night, to Qiu Dan · Wei Yingwu (Running Script)

Wei Yingwu · Tang · Wei Yingwu

“懷君屬秋夜，散步詠涼天。空山松子落，幽人應未眠。” “Thinking of you this autumn night, I stroll and chant in the cool air. On the empty mountain a pine cone falls; my hermit friend must still be awake.” Wei Yingwu’s quatrain to his friend Qiu Dan, a recluse on Mount Linping, included in Three Hundred Tang Poems. All 20 characters are set vertically, each collected from a Tang-dynasty running-script original or rubbing (no fonts), mainly in the Wang Xizhi tradition: 懷 夜 步 天 空 山 松 子 人 應 未 from Huairen’s Preface to the Sacred Teachings, collected from Wang Xizhi (carved 672; ink rubbing, National Palace Museum, Taipei); 幽 from Feng Chengsu’s Shenlong copy of the Orchid Pavilion Preface (a Tang-dynasty tracing copy, Palace Museum, Beijing); 屬 秋 詠 落 眠 from Lu Jianzhi’s handwritten Rhapsody on Literature (National Palace Museum, Taipei); 散 from Li Yong’s Lushan Temple Stele (ink rubbing, National Palace Museum, Taipei); 涼 from Ouyang Xun’s Sweet Spring of the Jiucheng Palace (rubbing, National Diet Library, Japan); 君 from Daya’s Half Stele of Xingfu Temple, collected from Wang Xizhi (rubbing, National Diet Library, Japan). Autumn moon in ink wash.

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