Wang Xizhi's greatest achievement is to change the simple calligraphy style in the Han and Wei Dynasties into exquisite and beautiful calligraphy style, which created a precedent for elegant and beautiful calligraphy. In particular, the running script "Preface to Lanting" is like flowing water, elegant and smart, with delicate bones, beautiful stippling, alternating density and white cloth, which contains extremely rich artistic beauty within the scale. Regardless of horizontal, vertical, point, skimming, hooking, folding and pressing, it can be said that the pen is extremely wonderful. Preface to Lanting has 324 words, and each word has a different posture, turning itself into a circle. Wang Xizhi is superb.
Wang Xizhi was a great calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He changed the simple style of Han and Wei calligraphy, opened up a beautiful and vigorous style after Jin Dynasty, and created a model of writing, running script and cursive script, which was admired by later generations. Copybook for calligraphy's Preface to the Lanting Pavilion is his masterpiece, which is praised as "the best book in the world" by the calligraphy circle and has fascinated countless learners for thousands of years. Therefore, Wang Xizhi was honored as a "book saint" by later generations. Li Shimin advocated Wang Xizhi's calligraphy style. He personally wrote Biography of Wang Xizhi for the Book of Jin, collected, copied and appreciated Wang Xizhi's original works, and copied several Prefaces to Lanting for ministers. In the history of calligraphy in China, emperors advocated one-person calligraphy with 950,000 respects, and that's all. In the Song Dynasty, Jiang Kui loved Preface to Lanting, studied it every day and often put what he had learned on it. A postscript said: "I have studied Lanting for more than 20 years, and I have learned a lot under the light tonight." It took more than 20 years to get an introduction, which shows the difficulty of interpretation: 1600 years, countless calligraphers have been tirelessly interpreting and reading, unwilling to go deep into Xi's palace, but in the end they can only get one. Therefore, Preface to Lanting can be said to be a maze created by outstanding calligraphy wisdom.