However, there are four main sources that constitute the modern Wang surname: Zi, Ji, Gui and the oldest Wang surname changed by foreigners comes from the Zi surname. Legend has it that in the late Shang Dynasty, Bigan, the uncle of King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty, together with Jizi and Weizi, were called the "three benevolences" of the late Shang Dynasty. King Zhou was dissolute and immoral. Bigan violated Yan Shang's advice many times and was killed by King Zhou. Because his descendants were descendants of the prince, they took "Wang" as their surname and were called "Zi surnamed Wang".
Historical celebrities named Wang:
Wang Xizhi (303-361, one theory is 321-379), courtesy name Yishao, was a calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and was known as the "Sage of Calligraphy". Langya was born in Linyi (now Linyi, Shandong), and later moved to Shanyin, Huiji (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang), and lived in seclusion in Jinting, Shan County in his later years.
He successively served as secretary Ying, general Ningyuan, governor of Jiangzhou, and later as internal history of Kuaiji, leading the right general. His calligraphy is good at Li, Cao, Kai, Xing and other styles. He studies the styles carefully, imitates them with his heart and hands, draws on the strengths of others, prepares various styles, and cultivates them in one furnace. He breaks away from the writing style of Han and Wei Dynasties and becomes his own style with far-reaching influence.
The style is peaceful and natural, the writing style is euphemistic and subtle, and it is beautiful and healthy. Li Zhimin commented: "Wang Xizhi's calligraphy not only expresses the simplicity and profoundness based on the philosophy of Lao and Zhuang, but also expresses the harmony based on the Confucian doctrine of the mean."
The representative work "Lanting Preface" is known as " The best running script in the world." In the history of calligraphy, he and his son Wang Xianzhi are collectively known as the "Two Kings".