Judging from the main contribution and influence to the history of calligraphy development, both father and son are important. Wang Xizhi's main calligraphy achievement is to inherit Zhong You's regular script, complete the creation of regular script, and inherit Cao Zhang's and Zhang Zhi's regular script, thus creating a new calligraphy style. In this respect, nature cannot be compared with it. However, on the basis of inheriting Wang Xizhi's calligraphy tradition, Wang Xianzhi created a new school of running script, which had a great influence in the history of calligraphy.
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During the Six Dynasties after the two Kings, Wang Xianzhi's new running script became popular, but it was only in the early Tang Dynasty that Li Shimin praised Wang Xizhi and suppressed the evaluation of Wang Xianzhi's calligraphy. Although Wang Xizhi's regular script is called regular script, it still has a strong official script flavor. The same is true of the regular script at the beginning of European language in the early Tang Dynasty, which belongs to the regular script based on official script. It was in Yan Zhenqing in the middle Tang Dynasty and later in Liu Gongquan that regular script was truly independent from official script.
As for cursive script, although Zhang Zhi created modern cursive script on the basis of Cao Zhang at the end of Han Dynasty, it was formed on the basis of Cao Zhang. Under the historical condition that regular script is not fully mature, we can only rely on Cao Zhang in technique. Wang Xizhi's cursive script, strictly speaking, is also a cursive script based on Cao Zhang, or a cursive script based on official script. The cursive script based on regular script really didn't mature until the middle Tang Dynasty. The cursive scripts of Yan Zhenqing's contemporaries, including He, Li Bai and others, especially the Wild Grass written by Huai Su and Zhang Xu, are all real cursive scripts.
This new cursive script originated from the cursive script of Wang Xianzhi.
It is for this reason that during this period, we have a new understanding of Wang Xianzhi's achievements, such as Zhang Huaiguan's highly positive evaluation of Wang Xianzhi.
Wang Xianzhi's calligraphy attainments are undoubtedly excellent. But he is not only a calligrapher in our eyes, but also a person with supreme love.
Wang Xianzhi's handwriting is rare, but we can see his rich personal feelings as an ordinary person from several calligraphy posts that claim to be Wang Xianzhi's works. These book posts also show Wang Xianzhi's pious yearning and love for her cousin after her divorce. Although these book posts may be falsely entrusted by later generations, their contents should be based on reality.
There are a lot of his ink marks in "Chunhua Pavilion Post", and some of them are love letters written to Xi's family after his divorce, which record his lovesickness, but they are all as cold as an ice palace and can't burn any passion. The two hearts that once loved each other were separated alive, and they could never get together again, living far apart, or even drag out an ignoble existence. Before the divorce, he wrote a short post to his relatives and friends: "Let my nephew know that I am more worried about my bride!" " Xi's illness is getting worse and worse, and he is worried.
Before Huan Wen, a fu in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, died seriously ill, he handed over the relieving to his third brother Huan Chong. Huan Wen has a second brother, Huan Mi, who is unconvinced. The eldest son Huan and the second son Huan Ji joined forces with the eldest brother Huan Wen to seize the military power. This incident aroused Huan Chong's high vigilance. After Huan Wen's death, he kept it a secret and arrested Mi, Ji.
Huanqi is Jian Wendi's third daughter and the son-in-law of Xin 'an Princess Sima Daofu. She was involved in the rebellion. After the treatment, she was exiled to Changsha. In order to draw a clear line, Sima Daofu divorced him and could choose her husband again. As a result, Princess Xin 'an, who has been blessed all her life, is unwilling to be lonely. With the support of the Empress Dowager, she is going to remarry.
She appreciates Wang Xianzhi's romantic implication, especially his cursive script, coherent figures, heroic momentum, beautiful writing style and romantic dancing. Therefore, she said in front of her grandmother that she wouldn't get married unless she was Wang Xianzhi.
I have a deep affection for Yun Daomao, and I don't want to be promoted as Xu because of my weak sense of official position. So he didn't want to divorce Yun Daomao, and he didn't like Princess Xin 'an. In order to refuse, he searched all kinds of reasons. Finally, he even used moxibustion on his feet, making him limp, saying that there was something wrong with his legs and feet, but it was still useless. Princess Xin 'an, who loves him deeply, has to marry him. It seems that Princess Xin 'an really loves him, too. Unfortunately, this is unilateral, and true love is consensual.
In the name of the emperor, Empress Dowager ordered Wang Xianzhi to marry Princess Xin 'an. Wang Xianzhi had to do it. In feudal society, if he did the opposite, the result can be imagined.
He was forced to divorce Yun Daomao because Princess Xin 'an could never be his concubine. He married Sima Daofu, Princess of Xin 'an. Since then, marriage has opened a new chapter, but he is not happy, and only he knows the taste.