At the age of seven, Wang Xianzhi began to learn calligraphy under the personal guidance of his father Wang Xizhi. At the same time, he also studied the cursive script of Zhang Zhi, a famous calligrapher in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which made calligraphy advance by leaps and bounds in just a few years and gained a great reputation among literati since childhood.
Wang Xianzhi's achievements in the art of calligraphy not only inherited his stepfather's style, but also surpassed innovation. In particular, his "broken style", that is, "big order style", is simply unique. The so-called breaking the body is to break the boundary between regular script and cursive script, but it is not an orthodox "running script". The preference for grass is to run scripts, and the preference for open scripts is to run scripts.
This cursive or running script font not only has the stability of regular script, but also has the fluency of cursive script. Writers can have their own preferences and give full play to their own specialties, leaving a lot of room for manoeuvre for writers. Wang Xianzhi once wrote the famous Calligraphy Fu of Luoshen, which inherited his father's calligraphy style. At the same time, Wang Xianzhi also created the cursive "Book Score", which is another great contribution of his calligraphy. Zhang Zhi is a sage of grass, which makes cursive script the most expressive style in the field of calligraphy art.
After Zhang Zhi, Wang Xizhi completed the evolution from Cao Zhang to Cao Cao, which made cursive script take on a new look. Wang Xianzhi inherited his father's wind, pushed the grass to a new level, and created a "calligraphy" in cursive script, which was like a raging river, pouring down a thousand miles, showing a magnificent and elegant posture, which was refreshing. Representative works include Mid-Autumn Post and December Post.
Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi's father and son have their own merits in calligraphy. Wang Xizhi showed his true behavior, while Wang Xianzhi used cursive script as his ability. So we can't judge who is superior and who is inferior by a calligraphy style. Wang Xianzhi is known as the "Little Sage" in the history of calligraphy, and he is also known as the "Two Kings" with his father.
Wang Xianzhi stood under the Mid-Autumn Moon, holding a brush, smelling the faint ink in the air, and felt that his spirit had reached its peak. He pressed his right hand and brushed it with a hairbrush in his hand. He wrote on a piece of paper: The Mid-Autumn Festival is no longer a phase, but a festival. For example, He Ran is not as good as He Qing and waits for the army.