The main features of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy are calm and natural, gentle and implicit brushwork, graceful and graceful, and later generations commented: "If you are floating in clouds, you will be as correct as a dragon."
Wang Xizhi's calligraphy is exquisite, beautiful and extremely beautiful. He introduced the writing of Chinese characters from practicality to a realm of paying attention to techniques and interests, which marked that calligraphers not only found the beauty of calligraphy, but also expressed it. ?
Wang Xizhi's greatest achievement is to change the simple calligraphy style of Han and Wei dynasties into exquisite and beautiful calligraphy style, which created a precedent for elegant and fluent calligraphy. In particular, the running script "Preface to the Lanting Pavilion" is like flowing water, elegant and elegant, with delicate bones, beautiful stippling, alternating density and white cloth, and contains extremely rich artistic beauty within the scale. Regardless of horizontal, vertical, point, skimming, hooking, folding and pressing, it can be said that the pen is extremely wonderful. "Preface to the Lanting Pavilion" contains 324 words, each of which has a different posture and turns itself into a circle.
Wang Xizhi's running script was unique at that time. Later, the world commented that "Wang Xizhi's font was born out of the ancient method, which changed the simple calligraphy style of Han and Wei Dynasties into a exquisite and beautiful calligraphy style."
Wang Xizhi's calligraphy has been recognized as "the best running script in the world" by calligraphers of all ages. Wang Xizhi (AD 33 ~ 361), the most outstanding calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was born in Linyi, Langxie, and was a general of the right army, so he was called "Wang Youjun".
at the age of seven, Wang Xizhi began to learn calligraphy. He studied under Mrs. Wei and his uncle Wang Kun, who came from a calligraphy family. Later, he visited the exquisite works of Chun Gu Mao, a master of seal script in Qin and Han Dynasties. He studied the body, imitated the hand, learned from others' strengths, and melted them into one furnace, creating a running script that was "natural in nature and rich in gods" and was praised as "the sage of books" by later generations. Li Zhimin, a professor of Peking University and a pioneer, commented: "Wang Xizhi's calligraphy not only shows simplicity and abstinence based on the philosophy of Laozi and Zhuangzi, but also shows harmony based on the Confucian golden mean." In his later years, calligraphy reached its peak, and Preface to Lanting was his masterpiece in his later years.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia of Wang Xizhi's Calligraphy.