However, Wang Xizhi's main achievements are in running script and cursive script. His cursive script is respected by the world as "the sage of grass". He combined some advantages of using a pen and closing words scattered in previous and contemporary calligraphy works into a brand-new calligraphy work.
His main representative works are:
(1) On Le Yi: The Book of Wang Xizhi, with a small brush font. The brushwork is beautiful, the spirits are radiant, and the fat and thin are commensurate, which is very consistent with the rules of regular script. Sui Zhiyong called it "the first official book", which was also highly praised by Chu Suiliang in the Tang Dynasty.
(2) Huang Tingjing: In small letters, there is a legend about Huang Tingjing: There was a Taoist priest in Shanyin who wanted Wang Xizhi's calligraphy. Because he knew that he was addicted to geese, he specially prepared a cage of fat and big white geese as a reward for writing the scriptures. When Wang Xizhi saw the goose happily writing scriptures for Taoist priests for a long time, he happily "caged the goose and returned home". The original text is contained in the Book List of the Southern Dynasties. It is stated that Wang Xizhi's book is the classics of Tao and Virtue, but it became the Huang Tingjing after repeated dissemination. Therefore, Huang Tingjing, also commonly known as "Changing Goose Post", ended with "May in the 12th year of Yonghe (356)", and now it is only a copy of later generations.
(3) Preface to Lanting: This text is the preface manuscript written by Wang Xizhi for their poems at the banquet of "mending the deed" held with some scholars on March 3rd, the 9th year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 353). ***28 lines, 324 words, perfect composition, structure and brushwork, which was his masterpiece at the age of 33. Later generations commented: "The font of the right army has changed. Its heroic spirit is natural, so it is thought to be a teacher from ancient times to modern times. " Therefore, all the calligraphers of past dynasties regarded Lanting as "the first running script".
(4) The book of Wang Xizhi. The running script has four lines and the font is fluent and beautiful. Yuan Zhao Mengfu once called this post "the best calligraphy in the world". "Shiqu Baodi" received three posts from Jin people, known as "Three Wishes", and this post ranked first. It is valued by people, so it can be seen.
(5) Confucius' Post: Confucius' Post and Frequent Sorrow, Wang Xizhi's running script, and the two posts are connected into one paper. The paper edition is now in the collection of Maeda Yude Society in Japan, and it is a copy of Wang Xizhi's name that flowed into Japan in the Tang Dynasty, together with the Post of Fan Huan in the Funeral.
(6) Funeral Notes: The Notes of Fan Huan's Funeral Notes are the calligraphy of Wang Xizhi copied by Tang Dynasty. Paper book. Now the Japanese imperial chamber is hidden. There are also three seals of Zhu Wen's "calendar extension" on the post, and the calendar extension is equivalent to three years from Jianzhong in Tang Dezong to Yongzhenyuan in Tang Shunzong, which shows that this post was introduced to Japan in the Tang Dynasty. "Mourning Post" has exquisite brushwork, and the structure is multi-sided. It is a typical work of the latest style created by Wang Xizhi.
(7) Seventeen posts: Seventeen posts is Wang Xizhi's representative cursive script, and its content is the letters he wrote. It was named after the word "seventeen". The ink of Seventeen Posts has been lost, and only a copy has been handed down from generation to generation. The cursive script of Seventeen Posts was rated by predecessors as "the brushwork is ancient and has the meaning of seal brush", and some people think that the characters in the posts have a wave-like brushwork, and the characters are independent and not connected. This just shows that he is good at "combining various laws and preparing a family", so he can form his unique cursive style.