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Emperor Taizong
On the basis of summarizing the achievements of predecessors, the calligraphy of Jin Dynasty reached a peak, especially the achievements of regular script and running script. It is worth mentioning that a new calligraphy style has evolved on the basis of official script? Cao Li, because this font is mostly used for writing, is also called Cao Zhang.
During this period, all kinds of calligraphy art became more and more mature, and the artistic beauty revealed by calligraphy became more and more obvious, among which Wang Xizhi's achievements were the most prominent. Floating like a cloud, agile like a dragon? Later generations addressed him as? Book saint? . Because of his fame, there are many famous allusions about him, such as? Get to the point? 、? Dongchuang and detective? Such as widely circulated in later generations.
Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was born in Linyi (now the north of Linyi County, Shandong Province), a noble family in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. His ancestors were not only in power in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but also accomplished in calligraphy. A good family atmosphere gave him a good calligraphy education. When I was young, I studied calligraphy with my uncle and aunt, and actively observed the calligraphy stickers of famous predecessors.
Wang Xizhi has a straightforward personality since childhood and does not worship Li Rong. Abdominal bed? Things became a beautiful talk for later generations. Although I don't like my official career, under the superior family background, I became a doctor as soon as I became an official, and then I continued to be a general in the right army. I would take a look at my internal history, so I was later called? Wang Youjun? 、? Wang huiji? .
Wang Xizhi got the true biography of Mrs. Wei, and he has a good understanding of official script and regular script, especially the small script created by Zhong You is more exquisite in Wang Xizhi's works. However, he is not satisfied. He constantly studied Zhang Zhi's cursive script and Li Si's seal script, absorbed the expertise of famous calligraphers in past dynasties, changed the simple style of calligraphy in the past, and made his calligraphy style more exquisite and unique, and finally made great achievements in regular script, cursive script and running script.
Taking people as characters, Wang Xizhi integrated the characters' personality, interest and mind into calligraphy, which made calligraphy enter another realm and greatly enhanced the aesthetic feeling of calligraphy.
Wang Xizhi's calligraphy is delicate and elegant, and his brushwork is vigorous. Among them, cursive script is good at exquisiteness, exquisiteness and elegance, and the font is elegant and beautiful. His representative works are Sunshine Sticker on the Fast Snow and First Sticker. His regular script is changeable in structure, euphemistic and colorful in brushwork and beautiful in font. His representative works include Huang Tingjing and Le Yi Lun. His running script naturally shows peace, rigidity and agility, and his masterpiece Preface to Lanting is his masterpiece. Liang Wudi praised his handwriting? The word is strong, like a dragon leaping into the sky and a tiger lying on a phoenix. ? Among Wang Xizhi's numerous works, The Preface to Lanting Collection enjoys the highest reputation. This preface was written in the ninth year of Yonghe (353). At that time, Wang Xizhi and his friends were drinking and writing poems in Lanting, and then they integrated Preface to Lanting Collection and were invited to preface this collection. It is said that Wang Xizhi drank too much at that time and seemed drunk, so he wrote a preface, but after waking up, he could no longer find the inspiration at that time.
Preface to Lanting consists of 28 lines and more than 300 words. No matter which kind of strokes are horizontal, vertical, dotted, left-handed and hooked, they all change greatly, making every word tall and strong and unique. Even if it is the same word, the strokes change and there is no similarity. Miffy ordered it? The best running script in the world? .
Preface to Lanting Collection not only made great achievements in calligraphy, but also became a masterpiece in literature because of its far-reaching conception and beautiful writing. It's a pity that the Preface to Lanting Collection was lost, and now what we see is the copy of later generations.
Wang Xizhi's talent has a great influence on his sons. His seven sons are all proficient in calligraphy, especially his seventh son, Wang Xianzhi, who has achieved great success and is as famous as his father. Later generations called them father and son? Two kings? This special family phenomenon was told by later generations.
Running script was produced in Han Dynasty and formed in Jin Dynasty, which is a variant of regular script. The stippling in regular script is clear and easy to distinguish. On this basis, the running script is not limited to form. On the premise of keeping the handwriting clear, based on the principle of convenient writing, the strokes are simplified by Lian Bi, and the same word can have different postures, which overcomes the shortcoming of slow writing speed of regular script. His masterpiece is Preface to Lanting Collection.