Wang Xizhi (303-36 1, 32 1-379) was born in Linyi (now Linyi, Shandong) and later lived in Yin Shan (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). Officials to the right army generals, both civil and military, deceased people called Wang Youjun, Wang Huiji. Wang Xizhi studied Zhong You in regular script, Zhang Zhi in cursive script, Li Si and Cai Yong, and learned from others. His calligraphy is known as "the dragon leaps into the sky, the tiger lies on the phoenix", which gives people a quiet beauty, just in contrast to Zhong You's books. His calligraphy is dignified, easy to turn into fun, and his pen is boring. He completely broke through the brushwork of official script and created a beautiful and convenient style of modern calligraphy, which was respected as a "book saint" by later generations. Wang Xizhi's original works are few, and all we see are replicas. Wang Xizhi is good at writing, running script, cursive script, flying white and so on. For example, the regular script Le Yi Lun, Huang Ting Jing, Seventeen cursive posts, menstruation post of running script, Qing post when it snows, funeral post, etc. His running script Preface to Lanting Collection is the most representative.
In the 9th year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (353), on the third day of the third lunar month, when Wang Xizhi and Xie An, Sun Chuo and other 4/kloc-0 people were in Lanting, Shaoxing (an activity to drive away diseases and ominous), everyone drank and wrote poems, which were included in the anthology, and Xi made an impromptu preface. This is the famous Preface to Lanting. This post is a draft with 28 lines and 324 words. Described the scene of the collection of literati at that time. Because the author was in high spirits and was very proud of his writing. It is said that I couldn't write anymore. Among them, there are more than twenty "zhi" characters, which are written in different ways. Mi Fei in Song Dynasty called it "the best running script in the world". According to legend, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, collected the Preface to Lanting before his death and was buried in Zhaoling after his death. What's left is just a copy of others.