In the history of 2 years from the creation of cursive script, only four and a half people can write cursive script well, which can be described as a divine man, and they can't do it without a little super talent and pen dealer for several lifetimes. The first is Zhang Zhi, a calligrapher of the Eastern Han Dynasty who is known as the sage of grass; The second is naturally the book sage Wang Xizhi, and the third is Wang Xianzhi, the seventh son of Wang Xizhi. The fourth is Zhang Xu, a sage in the Tang Dynasty, and half of them are Huai Su, a calligrapher and monk in the Tang Dynasty. The cursive script was born in the war between the central government and the northwest in the Eastern Han Dynasty. And Zhang Zhi is the son of Zhang Huan, the general of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Zhang Zhi never stepped into the official career in his life. He had two opportunities before him, but he refused them. He was the first person to be listed in the official history book as a professional calligrapher. Zhang Zhi has been painstakingly studying cursive script all his life, and his outstanding masterpiece is the champion post.
The second representative of cursive script is Wang Xizhi, our most admired calligrapher. Wang Xizhi's running script is the best in the world, and Lanting's preface has been passed down through the ages. His cursive script is also very good. The representative work of his cursive script is seventeen posts. His outstanding contribution is to establish the standard of cursive script, and his cursive font has influenced the history of calligraphy development for more than 1 years behind him. Wang Xizhi's cursive script, at that time, was evaluated as unparalleled in China and Korea. The characteristics of Wang Xizhi's cursive script can be summarized in eight words, which are neither exciting nor vigorous, and the style is far away. There is also a saying that dragons jump into heaven and tigers lie in phoenix. Strictly speaking, Wang Xizhi's cursive script established the writing standard of grass. The so-called grass is the boundary between words, and the strokes are not very continuous.
The third representative of cursive script is Wang Xian, the son of Wang Xizhi. He is different from his father. Wang Xianzhi is extremely talented and wild. His handwriting is much more wild than his father's. He writes wild grass instead of grass. Wild grass gives people a continuous sense of art, as we can see from Wang Xianzhi's grand view post. Another cursive genius after Wang Xianzhi was Zhang Xu in the Tang Dynasty. His works are embodied in the broken thousands of words in the forest of steles in Xi 'an. These words add up to only 22 words, but Zhang Xu's artistic talent is vivid. Zhang Xu's wild grass is listed as one of the three wonders of the Tang Dynasty. The last representative of cursive script is a monk in the Tang Dynasty. His cursive script performance is not as good as the previous four, but it can also be said that it is the highest in ancient and modern times. He is Huai Su.