After the Han Dynasty, after more than 60 years of tripartite confrontation, it entered the Jin Dynasty. Calligraphy has reached another peak. The cursive writing method of official script is called official script, which decomposes the basic structure of official script and only keeps waves, which is mainly used to write the memorial, so it is also called Zhanghui. The representative calligraphers who wrote Cao Zhang are You Shi, Huang Xiang and Suo Jing. On the basis of Cao Zhang, this kind of 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, cursive script, running script and regular script were all available.
Regular script and running script in Jin Dynasty achieved the greatest success and had the greatest influence on later generations. The representative calligraphers are Zhong You and Wang Xizhi. Zhong You (15 1-230) was born in Yingchuan Changshe (now east of Changge County, Henan Province). He was a teacher during the Cao Wei period. He is good at official script, regular script and various running scripts, especially regular script. His calligraphy was appraised as "the ancestor of regular script" in Xuanhe Pu Shu in Song Dynasty. His regular script inherited the legacy of official script in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is divided into eight parts, which are ingenious and dense, natural and quaint. He wrote "Crane's Solution to Watch", which is quite ambitious, and was praised by Liang Wudi's ZSZSZSZ as "swimming in the sea and dancing cranes in the sky". His regular script also has the brushwork of official script. His other works include The Manifestation, The Life Table of the Force, and The Reply.
Wang Xizhi (303-36 1, 32 1-379) was born in Linyi (now Linyi, Shandong) and later lived in Yin Shan (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). Officials to the right army generals, both civil and military, deceased people called Wang Youjun, Wang Huiji. Wang Xizhi studied 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 leaps into the sky, the tiger lies on the phoenix", which gives people a quiet beauty, just in contrast to Zhong You's books. His calligraphy is dignified, easy to turn into fun, and boring with pens. He completely broke through the brushwork of official script and created a beautiful and convenient style of modern calligraphy, which was respected as a "book saint" by later generations. Wang Xizhi's original works are few, and all we see are replicas. Wang Xizhi is good at writing, running script, cursive script, flying white and so on. For example, the regular script Le Yi Lun, Huang Ting Jing, Seventeen cursive posts, menstruation post of running script, Qing post when it snows, funeral post, etc. His running script Preface to Lanting Collection is the most representative.
In the 9th year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (353), on the third day of the third lunar month, when Wang Xizhi and Xie An, Sun Chuo and other 4/kloc-0 people were in Lanting, Shaoxing (an activity to drive away diseases and ominous), everyone drank and wrote poems, which were included in the anthology, and Xi made an impromptu preface. This is the famous Preface to Lanting. This post is a draft with 28 lines and 324 words. Described the scene of the collection of literati at that time. Because the author was in high spirits and was very proud of his writing. It is said that I couldn't write anymore. Among them, there are more than twenty "zhi" characters, which are written in different ways. Mi Fei in Song Dynasty called it "the best running script in the world". According to legend, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, collected the Preface to Lanting before his death and was buried in Zhaoling after his death. What's left is just a copy of others.