Abstract
One of the most famous pieces of early medieval Chinese prose is the preface written by Wang Xizhi to the collection of poems composed at a gathering he hosted in 353 at the Orchid Pavilion on his estate. In recent years Wang Xizhi's authorship of a large portion of the extant version of this preface has been questioned, most notably by Guo Moruo. A closer inquiry into Wang's attitude toward religious Daoism and the motive for his apparent rejection (as well as that of other contemporaries) of Zhuangzi's view of the relativity of life and death proves that the reasons adduced to question Wang's authorship of the preface are based on a misunderstanding of his thought.
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