Wang Xizhi was from the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Wang Xizhi is a famous calligrapher in the history of China, and his accomplishments in calligraphy are extremely high, so he was called "the sage of calligraphy" by the later generations. Wang Xizhi's representative works include Preface to Lanting Collection, Huang Tingjing, Yue Yi Lun, First Moon Post, Seventeen Posts and so on.
Wang Xizhi's achievements
Wang Xizhi set the first milestone in the development of running script. "Wang Ti" calligraphy, cursive is the strongest. In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, when the evolution of Chinese calligraphy was completed and the truth, line and grass were all available, Wang Xizhi's main achievements and contributions were manifested in running script and cursive script.
His running script started from the beginning, and opened a new page in the process of shaping, beautifying and perfecting the running script. He created a new body of "if it is broken, if it is connected, if it is oblique", which opened a new generation of wind.