Wang Xizhi's calligraphy is dignified, easy to turn into fun, and boring to use. He completely broke through the brushwork of official script and created a beautiful and convenient modern calligraphy style, which was respected as "the sage of calligraphy" by later generations.
Wang Xizhi's representative works include: Huang Tingjing in Regular Script, On Le Yi, Seventeen Guas in Cursive Script, Gua for Aunt in Running Script, Gua for Quick Snow Clear, Gua for Funeral, Preface to Lanting Collection, Gua for the First Month, etc. Among them, Preface to Lanting Collection is highly praised by calligraphers of all ages and is known as "the best running script in the world".
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Wang Xizhi in Jin Dynasty was known as the "sage of books", and his calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, eight points, Feibai and Cao Zhang all entered the magical realm, becoming celebrities worshipped by later generations and models for learning. Wang Xizhi loved calligraphy since childhood and was enlightened by his father Wang Kuang and his uncle Wang Biao. He was a good book at the age of seven. At the age of twelve, he stole the pen theory of the previous generation from his father's pillow.
In the ninth year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (353), on the third day of the third lunar month, 465,438+0 people, including Wang Xizhi, Xie An and Sun Chuo, drank wine and wrote poems in Lanting, Shaoxing, and made an impromptu Preface to Xi. This is the famous Preface to Lanting Collection.
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 called it "the best running script in the world" in Song Dynasty.
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