The main characteristics of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy are peaceful and natural, euphemistic and implicit, elegant and graceful. Later generations commented: "Floating like floating clouds, as graceful as a frightening dragon." Wang Xizhi's calligraphy is exquisite and beautiful, which is very beautiful to watch. In short, he introduced Chinese character writing from practicality to a state that pays attention to technique and taste, which marked that calligraphers not only discovered the beauty of calligraphy, but also could express the beauty of calligraphy.
Wang Xizhi’s greatest achievement was to change the simple calligraphy style of the Han and Wei dynasties into a calligraphy style with exquisite brushwork and beautiful style, and pioneered the beautiful and smooth cursive calligraphy. In particular, the running script "Preface to Orchid Pavilion" is like flowing clouds and flowing water, free and elegant, with delicate bones, beautiful pointillism, alternating density and density, and clever white and white cloth. It contains extremely rich artistic beauty within the size. No matter horizontally, vertically, dotted, left, hooked, folded or pressed, it can be said that it is the most wonderful way to use the pen to make sharp strokes. There are three hundred and twenty-four characters in "Lanting Preface", and each character has a different posture and turns freely. Wang Xizhi was a master of calligraphy
Wang Xizhi was a great calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He transformed the simple calligraphy style of the Han and Wei dynasties into a beautiful and vigorous style after the Jin Dynasty. His calligraphy copybook "Lanting Preface" is his masterpiece, and is hailed as "the best running script in the world" by the calligraphy circle. It has fascinated countless calligraphers for thousands of years. Wang Xizhi was therefore revered as the "Sage of Calligraphy" by later generations. Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, advocated Wang Xizhi's calligraphy style. He personally wrote the "Biography of Wang Xizhi" for "Book of Jin", collected, copied and appreciated Wang Xizhi's original works, and copied many copies of "Lanting Preface" and gave them to ministers. In the history of Chinese calligraphy, there are only a few emperors who advocated the calligraphy of one person with the dignity of 950,000 yen. Jiang Kui in the Song Dynasty loved "Lanting Preface" very much, studied it every day, and often wrote what he learned on it. There is a postscript that says: "I have been studying "Lanting" for more than 20 years, but I have failed to get anywhere. I watched it under the lamp this evening, and I have quite a bit of enlightenment." It took more than 20 years to get started, which shows the difficulty of interpretation: more than 1,600 years Countless calligraphers have worked tirelessly to interpret it, and why don't they want to delve deeper into Xizhi's secrets, but in the end they can only get a piece of it. Therefore, "Lanting Preface" can be said to be a labyrinth created by outstanding calligraphy wisdom.