Brief introduction of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy:
Wang Xizhi is good at many fonts, among which running script, regular script and cursive script are the most striking. Running script originated from regular script, which is a kind of calligraphy between regular script and cursive script. The pen is concise and the font is bold and unrestrained. Running script was written by Liu Desheng in Yingchuan at the end of Han Dynasty. During the Three Kingdoms period, famous calligraphers Zhong You and Hu Zhao were good at running calligraphy, but their brushwork was fat and thin. In the Jin Dynasty, their calligraphy was set as the standard. Wang Xizhi took Zhong You as a model in calligraphy from the beginning, and in his early work Iron menstruation, we can clearly see the traces of imitating Zhong You. However, after exploration and creation, Wang Xizhi finally created a kind of running script with unique charm, naturalness and abundance, which made the running script art immortal. Wang Xizhi's running script works are graceful and vigorous, radiant, moist and elegant, and vivid. The famous Preface to the Lanting Pavilion, Mourning Post and Sunny Post of Quick Snow are all representative works of his running script, in addition to De Tie Shi and Kong Shi Zhong Tie. Regular script is gradually evolved from official script, which began at the end of Han Dynasty, further developed in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and then flourished. Wang Xizhi's regular script was learned from Wang Xun and Mrs. Wei, and it is in the same strain as Zhong You's regular script. Zhong You was the first person to write regular script in the history of calligraphy. At this point, there is a difference between ancient and modern writing. Husband takes the ancient law as official script, and the present law as official script. However, in his regular script, you can still see the posture that looks like flying in the official script. Wang Xizhi's aim is to innovate on this basis. The regular script of the book is natural and unrestrained, so it has entered the present stage. The representative works of regular script are Le Yi Lun and Huang Ting Jing. The cursive script was formed in the Han Dynasty, and gradually evolved from the official script for the convenience of writing. At first, it was a Cao Zhang with independent characters and incoherent strokes. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, under the impetus of calligrapher Zhang Zhi, a new grass was formed, which could be linked by words and was more free and simple. Wang Xizhi also made great achievements in cursive writing. His cursive script "fluctuates from one painting to another in the peak;" Within a little bit, I am extremely frustrated in the vast mountains, and I will forget it if I break it. Representative works include Seventeen Posts, Yuan Huan Post and Early Month Post.
Wang Xizhi's masterpiece "Preface to the Lanting Pavilion" was written by Yu Yonghe when he was fifty and nine years old. The third day of March this year is baby repair day. At that time, Wang Xizhi, then the magistrate of Huiji County, and more than forty people, including friends Xie An and Sun Chuo, gathered in Lanting in Huiji Mountain. It's a sunny day, with a sunny day. In the beautiful scenery of mountains, forests and bamboos, everyone thinks it is a kind of sadness and sorrow. When Wang Xizhi was slightly drunk, he wrote the preface to the Lanting Pavilion, a masterpiece of the ages, in one go. There are 28 lines and 324 words in this post, including 2 1 word "zhi", but each has its own changes, and none of them are the same. Throughout the font, charming and vigorous, floating like a cloud, correcting like a dragon; Words like the breeze and bright moon express Wang Xizhi's feelings about the impermanence of life and death in his later years. It is said that after Wang Xizhi woke up from a hangover, he has rewritten several articles in succession, but he can no longer find the feeling that his heart and hand correspond and his mind follow the script at that time, and what he wrote is not as good as the original. Wang Xizhi himself lamented: "God helps me, how can I do it?" Preface to Lanting is also regarded as the first running script of China by the calligraphy circle. After Li Shimin tried his best to get this pillar, he couldn't put it down and buried it in Zhaoling as a funerary object. Since then, there has been no Preface to Lanting Collection.