What are the characteristics and styles of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy?

The characteristics and style of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy are: he has the habit of using regular script, and pays attention to the richness, exquisiteness and perfection of starting and collecting pens; It has the characteristics of seal script rhyme; The pen is slow; In the treatment of transverse folding, Wang Xizhi used twisting to make the brushwork turn more than the pen-turning method; The brushstroke is exquisite and changeable.

Wang Xizhi, who was honored as a "book saint", absorbed the essence of previous calligraphy and found a new way. He is good at regular script, running script and cursive script, and his words are fresh, "flowing like clouds, swift as a dragon". Based on the book reviews of past dynasties, Wang Xizhi's calligraphy style is magical, ever-changing, unique and at its peak, namely regular script, running script and cursive script (now grass).

Wang Xizhi's Ci

Regular script, or regular script and original script, is a kind of writing formed in the evolution of official script. In Han bamboo slips, the embryonic form has been seen. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, official script prevailed, while regular script was only popular among the people. By the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Western Jin Dynasty, due to the processing and refining of literati and officialdom, it was different from official script and became a fashionable style.

Wang Xizhi's regular script "Gebian Guti" has made a positive contribution to the finalization of modern regular script. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Xizhi rose suddenly, and his lower case letters were always treasured by people at that time.

Representative works include Le Yi Lun, Huang Ting Jing, Dong Fangshuo's Painting Praise, Taishi Zhen, Luo Shen Fu, Persuasion Table, etc. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, when Emperor Taizong recruited Wang Shu, he collected Le Yi, Huang Ting, Hua Zan and Lan Ting into the Imperial Palace.