One year on New Year's Day, Wang Xizhi posted couplets three times in a row, and those who loved his words stole them. On New Year's Eve, I had to write another letter. He was afraid of being exposed again, so he cut it up and down and put it in half first.
The first part is "double happiness" and the second part is "double misfortune". In this way, it really worked. When people saw that what he wrote was unlucky and not rich, they stopped revealing it. At the beginning of the new year, Wang Xizhi posted half a sentence each, and the couplet became: "Happiness never ends today, but it never rains but it pours last night." Passers-by clapped their hands and sighed.
Wang Xizhi's works
Wang Xizhi's calligraphy works are very rich. Besides Preface to Lanting Collection, there are other famous calligraphy works, such as Guan Nu Tie, Seventeen Tie, Two Thanks Tie, Orange Tie, menstruation Tie, Sunny Tie in Fast Snow, On Music and Yi, etc. Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting is known as "the best running script in the world".
Preface to Lanting has strong artistic characteristics. Its outstanding features are natural composition and vivid charm. Throughout the whole article, he is leisurely and handy, and organically combines artistic style with written content, which fully shows Wang Xizhi's feelings of quick self-sufficiency when gathering with friends. Full of emotion and writing, the unity of heart and hand, vivid charm, was regarded as a model of learning running script by calligraphers of all ages.