Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting is highly praised by calligraphers and is called "the best running script in the world".
Intensive study of body posture, imitation of heart and pursuit of hand, learning from others' strengths, and casting in one furnace created a running script of "natural, rich in gods and the world", which was praised as "the sage of books" by later generations.
Wang Xizhi (303-36 1 year), Han nationality, has several words, named Lian Zhai. He was more than seven feet long (1.83m), his ancestral home was Linyi (now Shandong), and later he moved to Yin Shan (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang), where he became a general of the Right Army. His son Wang Xianzhi's handwriting is also very good. People call them "Two Kings", and another son, Wang Ningzhi, is a general of the right army, and is called "Wang Youjun" and "Wang Huiji".
There are two former residences of Wang Xizhi. Located at No.20, Xiyanhu Street, lanshan district, Linyi City, it is a classical garden-style building, covering an area of about 5 mu. According to legend, Wang Xizhi went to the pool to wash inkstones after practicing calligraphy hard in his childhood. After a long time, the water in the pool became dark, so people called it "Xiyan Lake".
The other is located in Jinting Town, 35 kilometers east of Shengzhou City, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province. It used to be the hometown of Wang Xizhi, a great calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (Wang Xizhi lived here in seclusion in his later years). The 13th Sun gave up his house to practice here. It was called Jinzheng Pavilion and later renamed Jinzheng Palace. In the seventeenth year of Song Yongchu (440), Chu changed to Yanjin.