1950, his Danzi school district concentrated on evaluating the imitation of primary school students in 16 village. Facing Zhao Wangjin's handwriting, the teacher insisted that it was not written by students. In desperation, his teacher took Zhao Wangjin, who had just entered the third grade, to the scene to write, and all the teachers present were convinced and full of praise! If we say that at first it was just to write beautifully and practice beautiful words, then in middle school, the first five volumes of Chunhua Day given to him by the head teacher Wang Minguang suddenly broadened his horizons. Zhao Wangjin came into contact with such a rich calligraphy art for the first time and got a preliminary understanding of fonts and styles. He began to copy copybooks on white linen paper and tried to figure it out day and night.
In the first grade of junior high school, Zhao Wangjin sang on stage in the village and could sing a female role. Because of the vivid performance and accurate singing, the villagers who watched the play under the stage often cheered and threw cigarettes on the stage. In the second grade of junior high school, Shanxi Youth Daily published his short poem "Joining the Army Three Poems". Although it was only a small achievement, it left a deep impression on the teachers and students of the school. However, for Zhao Wangjin, what can stimulate his interest most is calligraphy. When he arrived in middle school, he began to expand his reading range. He often went to the school library to read newspapers such as People's Daily and Poetry Magazine. In these newspapers and periodicals, he saw the manuscripts of Chairman Mao's poems. Out of admiration for leaders and love for gorgeous hairstyles, Zhao Wangjin began to imitate hairstyles, and he imitated them very vigorously. Especially after the manuscript of Mao Zedong's poem "Spring and Snow in the Qinyuan" was published, he was infatuated and copied again and again, vividly. Surprisingly, he can write Chinese characters according to Mao Zedong's strokes. 1959, when he was in Yongji Middle School, he wrote Chairman Mao's "education policy" on the wall outside the classroom, "education should be combined with productive labor and education should serve proletarian politics". Each word is two feet big and has been preserved for more than 30 years. Until 1993, he held a solo exhibition in Yongji, and his teacher Chen Jiaxiang invited him back to school to look at the educational policy written by senior high school.
1960, Zhao Wangjin, as the only student in Shanxi Province who finished the Chinese college entrance examination paper with a brush, amazed the marking teachers. Although the sealed paper made the marking teacher not know who the students were, it spread among the marking teacher and the enrollment teacher. Later, Zhao Wangjin was admitted to the Chinese Department of Shanxi University. After reporting to the school, when the class assembled for the first time, the head teacher announced that he was the temporary monitor, who worked for three years.
During school, Zhao Wangjin still remembers his love for calligraphy after school. Whenever he has time, he picks up old newspapers and practices. It was also in Shanxi University that he met his teacher, Yao Dianzhong, a famous professor of Chinese Department, a master of Chinese studies and calligraphy. Yao Dianzhong is Zhao Wangjin's classical literature teacher. Zhao Wangjin not only listened to Yao's wonderful explanation in class, but also took the initiative to ask Yao to write a composition after class. When Mr. Yao wrote the preface to Zhao Wangjin's Calligraphy Art, he outlined the scene at that time: "Because of the same calligraphy hobby, his relationship with me is far closer than that of other students. He has a good title among his classmates, and he is also the monitor, which is quite organized. He once organized the first calligraphy exhibition in the whole school. ..... It turns out that at the beginning of his studies in Shanda, he was known as' hairy body'. I don't think so. I told him that copying is necessary and a basic skill, but copying only one kind is not enough. No matter how good it is, it can't be home We must take the law and turn to many departments. So he began to learn official script from Ode to Shimen, and soon it was considerable ... "
Under the careful teaching of Teacher Yao, Zhao Wangjin realized many truths. He no longer only devoted himself to the practice of imitating hairstyles, but began to learn from famous artists of past dynasties and learn more from them, starting with Ode to Shimen, involving Cao Quan, Zhang Qian, Huashan Temple and other historical sites, and learning from Deng.