Wang Xizhi is not a historical figure and has no direct relationship with the "two kings".
Wang Xizhi is good at all aspects of Li, Cao, Kai and Xing. He studies the body, imitates the hand, absorbs the strengths of others, prepares the body, and melts in one furnace. He got rid of the style of writing in Han and Wei dynasties and had a far-reaching influence. His calligraphy is peaceful and natural, and his brushwork is euphemistic and subtle. The most obvious characteristics of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy style are exquisite brushwork and changeable structure.
Wang Xianzhi's calligraphy art is not conservative all his life, nor does he like long characters like his father. Wang Xianzhi's family studies hard. His poetry and calligraphy is a rising star in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. His cursive script is skillful, elegant and romantic. For a century and a half from the end of Jin Dynasty to Liang Dynasty, his influence even surpassed that of his father Wang Xizhi.
Mi Fei, a calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty, studied under Wang Xianzhi. Hu Xiaoshi, a famous modern scholar and calligrapher, thinks that Weeds by Zhang Xu and Huai Su was developed from Wang Xianzhi cursive script.
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Comparing Wang Xizhi's cursive script with Wang Xianzhi's, we can see that "the girl is talented" and "the husband is angry". Wang Xizhi's travel notes are not so sporty and steep, while Wang Xianzhi's Mid-Autumn Festival notes are "the spirit of her husband". This is the biggest difference between Wang Xizhi's cursive script and Wang Xianzhi's.
Wang Xizhi can be said to have created this grass, but this grass has not yet entered the big grass. It was Wang Xianzhi who founded the big grass. There are still traces of Cao Zhang in Wang Xizhi's cursive script, and his "first moon post" and "menstruation post" are the mainstream forms of Wang Xizhi's cursive script. Wang Xizhi's grass is walking grass, and there is no complete grass. "July Post" and "Shangyu Post" all add cursive script to the running script, which is a running script.
Wang Xianzhi made an important suggestion to his father: Change Caocao and Cao Zhang into independent big grasses. Teenage Wang Xianzhi's advice to Wang Xizhi was a blow to the head. Wang Xianzhi was only 18 years old when Wang Xizhi died. At such a young age, he gave his father a very important opinion on the perfection of calligraphy, but Wang Xizhi did not fully accept it.
According to the typology of Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi in the Western Han Dynasty, the six words "Jie", "Dang", "Ghost", "Leisure" and "Bi" in Wang Xianzhi's Goose Quntie are not consistent with Liushu. Wang Xizhi should pay more attention to observing the six books in the process of changing the new style. Wang Xianzhi said that if we want to create a new calligraphy style to express our emotional mood, we must be related to the Six Books, and we must sacrifice some rules about writing to create a big grass.
This is the key for Wang Xianzhi to finally break through the limitations of modern grass and create big grass. The cursive script Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi are the successors, and Wang Xianzhi is the creator of the big grass.
If Zhang Zhi and Wang Xizhi are the pioneers and developers of this main line, then Wang Xianzhi is the finisher. If the great descendants of Wang Xizhi's regular script and running script are Yan Zhenqing, Su Dongpo, Mi Fei and Zhao Mengfu, then the great descendants of Wang Xianzhi's cursive script are Zhang Xu, Huai Su, Huang Tingjian and Xu Wei.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Two Kings (collectively called Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi)
Baidu Encyclopedia-Wang Xizhi (calligrapher of the Eastern Jin Dynasty)
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