What are the characteristics of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy?

Wang Xizhi was a great calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty in China. He changed the simple style of calligraphy in the Han and Wei Dynasties, and became beautiful and vigorous after Jin Dynasty, creating a model of writing, running script and cursive script, and later generations will prefer sons to daughters. Copybook for calligraphy's Preface to the Orchid Pavilion is his masterpiece, which has been praised as "the best book in the world" by calligraphy circles and has fascinated countless learners for thousands of years. Therefore, Wang Xizhi was honored as a "book saint" by later generations.

The main features of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy are: 1. Delicate brushwork, elegant brushwork, euphemistic brushwork, such as flowing water. Emperor Taizong praised it as "floating like a cloud and nimble as a dragon". Second, the structure is beautiful, the bones are delicate and delicate, and the stippling is dense. Third, the composition is ingenious, which contains extremely rich artistic beauty within the scale. Regardless of horizontal, vertical, point, skimming, hooking, folding and pressing, it can be said that the pen is extremely wonderful. In a word, he introduced Chinese writing from practicality to a realm of paying attention to techniques and interests, which marked that calligraphers not only discovered the beauty of calligraphy, but also showed the beauty of calligraphy.