臨萬歲通天帖 Calligraphy art works of Wang His-chih and his descendant

【About the author】

此文作者是史岑，但是寫成書帖並流傳到後世的人，卻沒有留下名字，根據宋人米友仁的判斷，僅能大概知道是隋代人寫成書帖的。

Inside Story

Under the regime of Wu Tsetien, the only female emperor in Chinese history who is Prime Minster Wang Fangching, Wang Hsi-chih’s descendant, collected the calligraphy works of Wang Hsi-chih and Wang Hsienchich to donate the calligraphy to Wu Tsetien. The Empress knew the gift belonged to his ancestors she could not accept it. She had the calligraphy duplicated on hard yellow paper and returned the originals to Wang Fangching.“Calligraphy art works of Wang His-chih and his descendant” is the calligraphy art works of Wang Hsi-chih and his descendants. The authentic copies of Wang Hsi-chih’s calligraphy are no longer available now. It was handed down from one thousand years ago and Wang Fangching’s autography remains on the copy, in addition, the very precious characters used in the reform period inr Wu Tsetien regime are also presented in the copy. The content of it are letters among friends and relatives.