2. Wang Xizhi
Shao Yi, Han nationality, a famous calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, is known as the "sage of books". Langya (now Linyi, Shandong) was born, then moved to Huiji, Yin Shan (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang), and lived in seclusion in Jinting County in his later years. Successive secretary, general Ningyuan, Jiangzhou secretariat, later literature and history records, right general. His calligraphy is good at calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy. The style is peaceful and natural, the brushwork is euphemistic and subtle, and it is beautiful. The masterpiece Preface to Lanting is known as "the best running script in the world". In the history of calligraphy, he and his son Wang Xianzhi were called "two kings".
representative works
Huang Tingjing, Le Yi Lun, Seventeen Notes on Cursive Script, Preface to Lanting Collection, Notes at the Beginning of the Month.
Calligraphy style
Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Collection of Lanting is highly praised by calligraphers of all ages and is known as "the best running script in the world". Wang Jian is good at following the laws of Li, Cao, Kai and Xing, carefully studying the shape, imitating the shape with his heart, learning from others' strengths, preparing everything in one furnace, getting rid of the style of writing in Han and Wei Dynasties, and becoming a family of his own, which has far-reaching influence. His calligraphy is peaceful and natural, and his brushwork is euphemistic and subtle, graceful and graceful. The world often uses Cao Zhi's Ode to the Goddess of Luo: "If you are amazed, if you are graceful, if you are in Youlong, you will be glorious and autumn, and Hua Mao will be spring pine. It seems that if the moon is covered by light clouds, it will float like the wind flowing back to snow. " Praise the beauty of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy. Legend has it that Wang Xizhi practiced calligraphy hard when he was a child. After a long time, the pool water used to clean the brush turned black. Later generations commented: "Floating like a cloud, agile like a dragon", "Yue Long goes to heaven, the tiger lies in the phoenix pavilion" and "nature is natural, and abundant gods cover all generations". There are some idioms about Wang Xizhi, such as cleverness and quick marriage. The most obvious feature of Wang Xizhi's style of writing is exquisite brushwork and changeable structure.
3. Wang Xianzhi
Son, a posthumous title official slave, Han nationality, originally from Linyi (now Linyi, Shandong), was born in Huiji (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). A famous calligrapher, poet and painter in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the seventh son of Wang Xizhi, a book sage, and the husband of Sima Yu in Jian Wendi. In order to distinguish it from Wang Min, the official secretariat is called "Da Ling" and is also called "Two Kings" with his father Wang Xizhi. Together with Zhang Zhi, Zhong You and Wang Xizhi, they are called "the four saints in the book".
Representative works:
Duck head pill stickers, Chunhua Pavilion stickers, Mid-Autumn Festival stickers
Wang Xianzhi's calligraphy art is not conservative all his life, nor does he like long characters like his father. Wang Xianzhi's family studies hard. His poetry and calligraphy is a rising star in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. His cursive script is as skillful, graceful and romantic as his father Wang Xizhi, and his father and son are called two kings.
Wang Xianzhi practiced calligraphy with his father since childhood, and he was very ambitious. Later, he regarded Zhang Zhi as a whole. He is famous for his running script and cursive script, but he also has a deep foundation in regular script and official script, because Tang Taizong didn't appreciate his works very much, and his works were not as many as his father's. The masterpiece "Thirteen Lines of Luo Shen Fu" handed down from ancient times is also called "Thirteen Lines of Jade Edition". The predecessors commented on Wang Xianzhi's calligraphy "Dancing in the snow, Yue Long in the clear spring". Precise and ingenious, unexpected. "His pen, from" extension "to" extension ".
His cursive script is even more valuable. Yu Zhuo once said: "The cursive script was handed down from Zhang Zhi in the Han Dynasty, just a wonderful person and a slave." His cursive script Mo Bao handed down from generation to generation includes Duck Head Pill Post and Mid-Autumn Post, all of which are imitations of the Tang Dynasty. His "Duck Head Pill Tie" is a cursive script with the word * * * 15 in silk. Wu Qizhen praised this post in the Book of Calligraphy and Painting in the Qing Dynasty, saying: "(This post) calligraphy is elegant and straight, amazingly beautiful, naturally interesting, and it is the supreme product." His Mid-Autumn Post is a cursive script with 22 words. It looks new and rare in the world. Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty listed it as a "national treasure".