The Palace Museum is holding a special exhibition on Chinese calligraphy.

It will have vintage copies of ancient calligraphy masterpieces such as the running script work Lantingji Xu (Preface to Poems Composed Near the Orchid Pavilion) by Wang Xizhi (AD 321-379) of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 317-420).

The original work is lost. In the Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907) many copies were made of Wang's famous work, which describes the beauty of the Orchid Pavilion and a get-together of Wang and his friends.

Some believe the original was buried with Tang Emperor Taizong. The Tang copy by Feng Chengsu, widely considered the best of the subsequent copies, is in the collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing.