Wang Xizhi, a Chinese character, was a minister and calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The greatest achievement in his life is the creation of calligraphy.
As we know, there were many calligraphers in Wei and Jin Dynasties. Wang Xizhi and his son Wang Xianzhi are honored as two kings. Wang Xizhi is a calligrapher and his son is a little saint. The brushwork of "two kings" is not strange, but common. Their father and son summed up their predecessors' brushwork and formed their own style, which was widely recognized and popularized in the early Tang Dynasty. Among the later literati, the calligraphy style of the "two kings" has been passed down to this day, and calligraphers in both the Tang Dynasty and the Song and Yuan Dynasties were from father and son.
His preface to The Orchid Pavilion Collection is even called "the best running script in the world". Emperor Taizong was an avid fan of his, pushing Wang Xizhi to the throne of the book sage all the way. Wang Xizhi's calligraphy draws on all others' wisdom, inherits and reforms the original calligraphy of the previous generation and Cao Zhang's brushwork, which is refined and unique, and changes the primitive style of calligraphy in the Han and Wei Dynasties, making cursive script beautiful, more expensive and more vulgar. Known as the book saint in the world.
From the analysis and research of Wang Xizhi's representative works, the secret lies in the variability of brush strokes, which is as unpredictable as the clouds in the sky, reaching the writing height of "there is law but no law"
What is the "law" of this existing law? It is the magic brush of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy, the unchanging and eternal brushwork of Wang Xizhi, and the statutes and laws that Wang Xizhi followed when writing Chinese characters. The two most magical and wonderful strokes in Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Lanting Pavilion are the dot of the word "Yong" and the first vertical of the word "Chang" written by Hui Feng and Chang, which are also the personalized display of Wang Xizhi's brushwork. Later, people called it "God gave it to Wang Xizhi" and gave it at that moment. Legend has it that it is difficult to present your legendary pen and ink again.