There are few works handed down from Cao Zhang by Wang Xizhi, and the most reliable one is The Leopard Slave Post. His Cao Zhang, written beautifully, is amazing. Wang Xizhi's cursive script is not an old-school Cao Zhang, but a new modern grass. What future generations affirm and admire is that he destroyed the ancient law, cut one, and turned the ancient into the present grass. Wang Xizhi's modern cursive script was produced in the process of sublating Zhang cursive script. Compared with Zhang Zhi's Cao Zhang, Wang Xizhi's Cao Zhang is smart, indulgent and fluent. Although the connection of Wang Xizhi's brushwork is mostly embodied in one word, what he presents is a spiritual connection, not a formal connection, that is, what Emperor Taizong said is "the shape is broken". In this way, the two seemingly incongruous ends of Cao Zhang's calligraphy style and the smooth and leisurely brushwork of modern cursive script have been integrated in Wang Xizhi's modern cursive script, giving it a new look. Wang Xizhi's modern cursive script has reached the extreme in the changes of pen and structure. The pen is mainly square-folded, rigid, clean, simple and leisurely. Between a painting, the peaks and turns fluctuate; Within a little, I fell to the milli-awn "(the score of Tang Sun Guoting's book). The' shape' and' potential' of stippling are restrained, inclined, long or short, square or round, and almost undeveloped and natural.
Seventeen posts is the representative work of Wang Xizhi's cursive script. Seventeen posts is an emotional book. Footprint is not only a style, but also a form, which is the main carrier of literati calligraphy since Wei and Jin Dynasties. Yan Zhitui of Beiqi said:' It is really cursive, so we should pay attention to it. There is a saying in Jiangnan: "A thousand miles away is a thousand miles away." ("Yan's family training? Ouyang Xiu, a writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, said:' I like to see the remains of pen and ink since Wei and Jin Dynasties, but I miss the lofty aspirations of my predecessors! The so-called law posts are all about questions in illness, mutual stay and communication, which are applied between family and friends, but only a few lines. At first, Gaiqi was unintentional, but full of interest, dripping and swaying, gorgeous or ugly, all in various shapes, wearing curly letters, so that it was amazing at first sight, and it was endless after reading it, so that future generations thought it was a spectacle and wanted to see him as a person! "(Postscript Collection of Ancient Books)" Seventeen Posts "is such a letter. The whole article is true, the structure goes with the flow, and changes randomly in the situation of sick books. Skill and talent, reason and sensibility blend together naturally.