Wang Xizhi (about 32 1-379)
Shao Yi was born in Linyi, Eastern Jin Dynasty. His family is one of the few aristocratic men in the Jin Dynasty. His grandfather is a businessman. His father, Wang Kuang, is the prefect of Huainan. He once advocated that Jinshi crossed the river and Jiangzuo established the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Wang Dao, Wang Xizhi's uncle, is world-famous and the prime minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. And his other uncle, Wang Dun, was the military commander of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Wang Langya was in power for some time in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Because of this background, Wang Xizhi became a doctor as soon as he became an official, then joined the army for Yu Liang, and then transferred to Ningyuan General and Jiangzhou Secretariat, and finally achieved the goal of being a general of the right army and collecting civil history. So people also call him Wang Youjun.
Wang Xizhi is frank and informal, and has never admired Li Rong since he was a child. Shi Shuo Xin Yu contains Wang Xizhi's beautiful talk about lying on the couch. China's comments on calligraphers and calligraphy works in Tang Dynasty. By Zhang Huaiguan. Zhang Huaiguan, a painting and calligraphy theorist. Activities in Kaiyuan, Hailing (now Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province) people. Zeng Guan Ezhou Sima, special for Kaiyuan Chinese Hanlin Academy. Calligraphy, good at truth, line, small seal, eight points. He is the author of Book Theory (1), commenting on four styles of truth, line, chapter and grass, and discussing the practices of various styles. Book review (1) evaluates the value of calligraphy; The book is broken, 3 volumes. In addition, there are other works, such as Lun Zi, Lun Liuti Calligraphy, Lun Ten Methods of Using Pen, Yu Tang Ban Jing, Ballad of Books and Medicine Stone, which are all works of calligraphy theory. He is also the author of Broken Paintings, a book about painting that has been lost.
The first volume of Shuduan describes the origin and development of ancient Chinese prose, big seal script, calligraphy, small seal script, eight-part essay, official script, Cao Zhang, running script, flying white, cursive script, etc. 10. Each style has a praise, which actually systematically discusses the history of font development and change. The middle volume and the second volume are divided into three categories: spirit, wonder and ability, and each category is divided into different styles. There are 25 excellent products (except for individual repeat reading 12), 98 excellent products (except for individual repeat reading, 39) and 35 capable products 107 (except for individual repeat reading). The first name, followed by a biography, 38 people were added to the biography. Biographies of each product are arranged in chronological order. There is a general comment at the end of the book, which was written by Kai Yuan Jia Zi (724) and Ding Mao (727). Biographies are numerous and informative, claiming to be "beautiful without concealing evil, close to the book of Ma Qian (Sima Qian)", which shows that the author's writing attitude is more serious. In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Yanyuan edited the "Fa Zheng Shu" and sorted out the full text of this book, which shows that this book has been paid attention to in the Tang Dynasty. Yu Shaosong, a close friend, said that the book was quoted a lot and the comments were thoughtful. Wang Xizhi's representative works include: Huang Tingjing in Regular Script, On Le Yi, Seventeen Guas in Cursive Script, Gua for Aunt in Running Script, Gua for Quick Snow Clear, Gua for Funeral, Preface to Lanting Collection, Gua for the First Month, etc. Among them, Preface to Lanting Collection 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: "If you are floating like a cloud, you will be surprised if you are smart", "Yue Long is in the sky, and tigers are lying in the phoenix pavilion", "Nature is natural, and the gods are abundant in the world", which was praised as "the sage of books" by later generations. There is an idiom about him: three points in the heart, son-in-law in the east bed, money.