Wang Xizhi (33-361, 321-379) was born in Linyi, Langya (now Linyi, Shandong), and later lived in Shanyin (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). Officials to the right army generals, civil history, so the world called Wang Youjun, Wang Huiji. Wang Xizhi learned from Zhong You in regular script, Zhang Zhi in cursive script, Li Si and Cai Yong, and learned from others. His calligraphy is known as "the dragon jumps into heaven, the tiger lies in phoenix", which gives people a sense of quiet beauty, just in contrast with Zhong You's book. His calligraphy is dignified, easy to turn into music, and annoying with his pen, which completely breaks through the brushwork of official script and creates a beautiful and convenient style of modern calligraphy, and is respected as a "book saint" by future generations. The original works of Wang Xizhi are rare, and all we see are copies. Wang Xizhi is good at writing, walking, cursive and flying white, such as Yue Yi Lun, Huang Tingjing in regular script, Seventeen posts in cursive script, Aunt Post in running script, Sunny Post in Fast Snow, Mourning Post and so on. The preface to Lanting, a running script of his book, is the most representative.
In the 9th year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (353), on the 3rd day of the third lunar month, when Wang Xizhi, Xie An, Sun Chuo and other 41 people were repairing a contract in Lanting, Shaoxing (a kind of activity to get rid of diseases and ominous), everyone drank and composed poems, and the poems were collected into a collection, and the preface to the Lanting was improvised. This is the famous Preface to Lanting. This post is a draft, with 28 lines and 324 words. Described the scene of literati's elegant collection at that time. Because the author was in high spirits at that time, he wrote very proudly. It is said that it is impossible to write later. Among them, there are more than twenty "zhi" characters, which are written in different ways. In Song Dynasty, Mi Fei called it "the best running script in the world". Legend has it that Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, cherished the Preface to Lanting and buried it in Zhaoling when he died. What remains is only a copy of others.
after the Han dynasty, after more than 6 years of tripartite confrontation, it entered the Jin dynasty. Calligraphy has reached another peak. The cursive writing of official script is called official script, which decomposes the basic structure of official script and only keeps the wave, which is mainly used to write the memorial, so it is also called chapter script. The representative calligraphers who wrote Zhangcao are Shi You, Huang Xiang and Suo Jing. On the basis of Zhangcao, this grass appeared again. At the same time, regular script and running script appeared. It can be said that in the Jin Dynasty, seal script, official script, grass script, line script and model script were all ready.
in Jin dynasty, regular script and running script made the greatest achievements and had the greatest influence on later generations. The representative calligraphers were Zhong You and Wang Xizhi. Zhong You (151—23) was born in Yingchuan Changshe (now the east of Changge County, Henan Province). During the Cao Wei period, he was a teacher. He is good at official script, regular script and various lines, especially regular script. In the Song Dynasty's "Xuanhe Shupu", it was evaluated that his calligraphy was "the ancestor of regular calligraphy". His regular script inherited the legacy of the official script of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It was divided into eight parts, and the left and right waves were picked, which was ingenious and dense, natural and quaint. He wrote "He Jie Biao", which is quite a swan flying, and was rated as "playing in the sea and dancing cranes in the sky" by Xiao Yan of Liang Wudi. In his regular script, there is also the brushwork of official script. His works also include Manifestation Table, Force Life Table, and Return of Posts.