Places held in image, memory, and landscape
Orchid Pavilion in Shaoxing
In the Lanzhu hills southwest of Shaoxing, this Jin-era garden is where Wang Xizhi, Xie An and some forty friends gathered in 353 and Wang wrote the Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Poems.
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- Preface to the Orchid Pavilion GatheringProseWang Xizhi
Looking up to gaze upon the immensity of the cosmos, looking down to survey the abundance of all living kinds, thereby allowing the eyes to wander and the heart to roam. Surely we know that treating life and death as one is hollow falsity, and equating longevity with early demise is sheer delusion.