Before Wang Xizhi, some people made innovations in calligraphy. Since the Han Dynasty, the mainstream of calligraphy in China has completely entered a brand-new era of official script, separated from seal script. During the 500 years from the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Han Dynasty to the era of Wang Xizhi, pear trees have also been developing continuously. Let's talk about why China's calligraphy developed and evolved. How to understand this problem determines how we look at art. In fact, Wang Xizhi is not only transcendental, but also not transcendental.
It can be said that Wang Xizhi is a contradictory unity. He has both transcendence and non-transcendence If we say that from the creation of artistic style, Wang Xizhi has been surpassed. Generally speaking, China's calligraphy in the history of China's calligraphy can be divided into two styles: one is the beauty represented by Wang Xizhi and his followers; The other is the masculinity represented by Yan Zhenqing. Wang Xizhi's style gradually developed into orthodox calligraphy. Therefore, under the ancient calligraphy system in China, Wang Zhi is a sacred representative of nature, so he is called a calligraphy saint. For more than 1000 years, Wang Xizhi has been called "the sage of books".
His calligraphy is called Preface to Lanting, which is the earliest running script in the world. Now many fans who run scripts also praise Lanting's preface! Wang Xizhi's calligraphy is not unparalleled. Calligraphers have the characteristics of calligraphers, and each dynasty has different calligraphers. I didn't really say that calligraphy is the best in the world. Different schools of calligraphy have their own characteristics. The key is that they have their own characteristics, such as Song Huizong's Shoujin style, Qin Gui's imitation of Song style, Qigong style of Qigong, and Tian Yingzhang Tiankai and Pang Di founded by Pang Zhonghua, including hard-pen calligraphy. A person has no absolute aesthetic view, there are good and bad! Can't generalize!
Calligraphy is divided into seal script, official script, regular script, running script and cursive script. Seal script is divided into big seal script and small seal script. Lishu also has many branches, such as Cao Quan tablet. The famous regular script is Zhao's calligraphy. Wang Xizhi, Song Scarlett in Jin Dynasty, Four Masters of Jiangnan in Ming Dynasty, etc. Anyway, I won't list many! Zhang Xu's cursive script and Huai Su's cursive script are both famous!