According to legend, one day Wang Xizhi and his friends were playing by the river when they suddenly saw a group of white geese in high spirits and strong physique. Wang Xizhi likes these geese very much. He found their owners and wanted to buy them. After their owner learned that the person who bought the goose from him was a famous calligrapher Wang Xizhi, he didn't want the money. They just want Wang Xizhi to copy a Huang Tingjing and give it to him in exchange. Wang Xizhi loves geese very much, and readily agreed to the request of the owner of the goose and exchanged a painting and calligraphy for this group of white geese. This incident also made a much-told story, which was widely circulated in later generations.
Besides, Wang Xizhi has many interesting stories about painting and calligraphy. Every Spring Festival, Wang Xizhi will personally write a couplet and post it outside the gate. However, his calligraphy and painting, even the Spring Festival couplets written casually, are valuable. Many people are willing to pay a lot of money for it. This also makes his Spring Festival couplets often secretly picked and sold by malicious people in the middle of the night. This incident also confirmed that Wang Xizhi's calligraphy and painting were sought after at that time, and even the casually written Spring Festival couplets were regarded as treasures.
Today, Wang Xizhi's original calligraphy and painting is priceless. Wang Xizhi's recent 4 1 word copy of Ping An Tie was auctioned for more than 300 million yuan in modern times. It is not difficult to imagine what kind of sky-high price collectors will pay if Wang Xizhi's original work is born. Unfortunately, Wang Xizhi's original works have almost disappeared, and most of them are copies of Wang Xizhi's fonts.