The sage of calligraphy, Wang Xizhi, also named Yishao, was originally from Linyi, Langye. He moved south with the Jin Dynasty in the late Western Jin Dynasty. In the first year of Yonghe, he served as General of the Right Army and Internal History of Kuaiji, and then settled in Kuaiji. Shaoxing is Wang Xizhi’s second hometown.
Wang Xizhi’s creation of running script and cursive script had a lot to do with his hobby. Wang Xi first loves orchids and second loves geese. The origin of the story about his love for geese is that he once wrote the "Huang Ting Jing" for a Shanyin monk and "caged the goose back", and also added the word "goose" and became a household name. But Ailan, who is more interesting, is rumored to be neglected. On the third day of March in the ninth year of Yonghe, Wang Xizhi made an appointment with his friends to perform a ritual ceremony, and chose the Orchid Pavilion as the place to perform the ritual. In addition to "there are high mountains, lush forests and bamboos here, as well as clear streams and rapids, reflecting the left and right", there are also orchids in full bloom here, which are fragrant. Tangy. The celebrities who went with them left behind famous orchid sayings such as "Bow down and wave the plain waves, look up to hold the fragrant orchid", "Swipe with a slight sound, the fragrance is like orchid", "Backstroke to hold the fragrant fragrance, the refreshing taste is deep" and so on. .
When Wang Xizhi was studying calligraphy postures, he benefited from raising geese and even more from Ailan. The goose singing with its neck bent and its anthurium holding water brought inspiration to Wang Xizhi. From then on, he stretched out his arms and wrote more freely. The graceful orchid leaves blowing in the wind inspired him to create a new style of calligraphy that is elegant, smooth, beautiful and charming. The orchid leaves are green, quiet, neat, dense, smooth and elegant. Wang Xizhi applied the various postures of orchid leaves to calligraphy, bringing his calligraphy structure, brushwork, and composition skills to a sophisticated level. His calligraphy paintings are full of vitality, beautiful fonts, and naturally scattered. They are shaped by the words, graceful by the posture, powerful by the graceful, and make full use of the situation, reaching the highest state of vivid charm and free will.