Wang Xianzhi (344-386), the word amethyst, the seventh son of Sanxi, was the official secretariat, and was called Wang Daling. When I was a child, I studied calligraphy with my father Xi and Zhang Zhi. Calligraphy is good, especially cursive.
Wang Xianzhi studied calligraphy with his father when he was a child, and he was very ambitious. He wants to study and practice as hard as his father and become a great calligrapher. Every time he saw the famous calligraphy of the ancients, he always watched it carefully, and after comprehensive consideration of its font characteristics, stroke shape and structural layout, he began to write and wrote hundreds of times until he got the message. So by the time he was fourteen or fifteen, his calligraphy would be interesting.
But after studying for a period of time, he showed his fear of hardship and fatigue, hoping to find a shortcut to the success of calligraphy.
One day, Wang Xianzhi went into his father's study and asked Wang Xizhi, hoping that Wang Xizhi could tell him the secret of writing. Wang Xizhi took Wang Xianzhi to the backyard, pointed to eighteen jars of water and said to his son, "The secret of writing lies in these eighteen jars of water. You just have to finish writing the water in the 18 cylinders and you will know naturally. 」
After listening to his father's instruction, Wang Xianzhi never dared to take shortcuts, but practiced day and night.
In order to test his son's skill, Wang Xizhi pulled out his pen from behind. He didn't pull it out, and said with a sigh, "This child has a bright future! Under Wang Xizhi's inculcation, Wang Xianzhi really finished writing Eighteen Tanks of Water, which further changed Gu Zhuo's calligraphy style at that time and had a great influence on later generations.
His calligraphy is excellent in all aspects, especially cursive. He is handsome and heroic, and he is as famous as his father Wang Xizhi in the history of calligraphy, and he is also called "Two Kings".
His calligraphy masterpiece "Ode to the Goddess of Luo" has only 13 lines in the Song Dynasty, and there are jade carvings, which are known as "Thirteen Lines in the Jade Edition". In addition, works such as duck head pill post, Mid-Autumn post and Dongshan post are also treasures of calligraphy art.