Wang Fuan was deeply influenced by his family studies, and his grandfather Wang Yan and his eldest brother Wang Shouzhen were both juren. His father, Ding Chou, was a scholar in Guangxu period, refused to be an official, and engaged in literature, epigraphy and calligraphy research, which had a great influence on him.
Wang Fuan is famous for his seal cutting and calligraphy. Seal cutting began in Qin and Han Dynasties and evolved into Zhejiang School, and so did various schools in Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are many faces in early works, which gradually become faces after middle age. Everyone knows his big seal script, and he knows everything about inscriptions, imperial edicts and inscriptions. He has a unique style, combining the big seal script.
Wang Fuan's seal script and seal cutting works are widely circulated, but few people pay attention to his official script. In fact, he also devoted a lot of efforts to official script, and made great efforts on many Han steles, such as Zhang Qian, Cao Quan, Guan Ge, school officials, Sanlao, Xia, Wulian and so on. He wrote the most in Zhang Qianbei. He often takes seal script as his servant, and his strokes are consistent with his strokes. There is no illness of flat dragging, he has a three-dimensional sense of stone. Silkworm heads gather together, phoenix tails are not exposed, ancient styles appear outside, and there is rhyme in the rhyme, which is intriguing.