Who is the calligrapher known as the sage of books?

Wang Xizhi

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.