The Pingfu tie (), also spelled as Pingfutie or Ping Fu Tie, is a work of calligraphy on paper by Lu Ji (261–303 CE).Escande, Yolaine. "Calligraphy and Painting." The Rise of Rhythm Studies: Mediating Dimension, Discipline, and Scale (2025): 195.梁继. "平复帖." 鞍山师范学院学报 11, no. 005 (2009): 20-23. It is widely recognized as the oldest extant Chinese calligraphic masterwork in the world, or more precisely, the oldest surviving piece of Chinese calligraphy written by a well-known master himself.
This calligraphic artwork, which is over 1,700 years old, is now housed in the permanent collection of the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City in Beijing, China.佐藤利行. "A Calligraphic Study of Luji's Pingfutie." Hiroshima interdisciplinary studies in the humanities 3 (2004): 63-67.Richter, A. (2013). Letters and epistolary culture in early medieval China (p. 139). Seattle: University of Washington Press. It is only showcased once every 5 years.余辉 等.看见故宫 中国历史.湖南文艺出版社, 2023.
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