As a great poet in Tang Dynasty, Li Bai did not have much attainments in calligraphy. The reason why he belittled the calligraphy of Wang Xizhi and Zhang Zhi in "A Cursive Script" was actually to praise him for being famous for his wild grass at that time. Cao Sheng? Huai Su, a famous calligrapher.
To be fair, Li Bai's evaluation of Wang Xizhi and Zhang Zhi's fame is biased. The calligraphy achievements of Wang Xizhi and Zhang Zhi can stand the test of history. In the early Tang Dynasty, people appreciated the calligraphy of Wang Xizhi and others because of the aesthetic problems of calligraphy at that time and Emperor Taizong's admiration for Wang Xizhi's calligraphy.
In the mid-Tang Dynasty when Li Bai lived, people's ideas were different from before, and their aesthetic views on calligraphy were also different. At that time, people commented that Wang Xizhi and Zhang Zhi's calligraphy was vulgar and lacked momentum. It is also in this historical context of the transformation of calligraphy aesthetics that Li Bai wrote that sentence? Wang He was named after several waves in ancient times. ? In fact, Li Bai was not the only writer who belittled Wang Xizhi's calligraphy at that time, and so were famous literary figures such as Han Yu.
Huai Su's calligraphy achievements are of course very high, and Li Bai praised Huai Su's high level of calligraphy in his poems, which is beyond reproach. However, in a specific historical situation, Li Bai's way of belittling the previous generation of calligraphers to promote the contemporary calligraphers is indeed biased, and Li Bai's move is even more suspected of not knowing calligraphy.
There is no unified aesthetic standard for calligraphy. Li Bai can have his own aesthetic view of calligraphy, but Li Bai said that the calligraphy of Wang Xizhi and Zhang Zhi is vain, which is obviously too much. The above is my opinion, please correct me.