Later generations called Wang Xizhi, a great calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Wang Xianzhi and his son as "two kings".

Wang Xizhi was born in a calligraphy family. His uncles Wang Yi and Wang Dao; Cousins Wang Tian and Wang Qia were both famous calligraphers at that time. Wang Xizhi (32 1-379, or 303-36 1) was born in Linyi (now Shandong) and later moved to Yin Shan (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). He is a general of the right army, and he will have a look at the internal history of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

At the age of seven, Wang Xizhi studied calligraphy with the female calligrapher Wei Shuo. Wang Xizhi had been copying Shu Wei until he was twelve years old. Although he is very good, he always feels dissatisfied. Because I often listen to the teacher's stories about calligraphers' diligent study and hard practice, I admire the calligraphy of Zhang Zhi, a "grass saint" in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and I am determined to use Zhang Zhi's "Linchi" story to motivate myself.

In order to practice calligraphy well, wherever he went, he always waded through mountains and rivers, explored ancient inscriptions and accumulated a lot of calligraphy materials. In his study, in the yard, at the gate and even outside the toilet, he has stools and pens, ink, paper and inkstones. Whenever he thinks of a well-structured word, he immediately writes it on paper. When he practiced calligraphy, he thought hard and even forgot to eat and sleep.

He believes that raising geese can not only cultivate sentiment, but also understand the truth of calligraphy from some gestures of geese. One morning, Wang Xizhi and his son Wang Xianzhi took a boat tour of Shaoxing. When they arrived near Xianshui Village, they saw a flock of white geese on the shore, staggering and dawdling. Wang Xizhi was fascinated by these white geese and wanted to buy them home. Wang Xizhi asked the Taoist priest nearby, hoping that the Taoist priest could sell him the goose. The Taoist priest said, "If the right army adults want it, please write a Taoist health book" Huang Ting Jing "for me! Wang Xizhi longed for the goose and readily agreed to the conditions put forward by the Taoist priest. This is the story of "Wang Xizhi gave the White Goose Book".

At the age of twenty, A Qiu Chi Jian sent someone to Wang Dao's house to choose a son-in-law. At that time, people paid attention to family status, and the door was right. When Wang Dao's son and nephew heard that Qiu's family was coming to propose marriage, they all dressed up in disguise, hoping to be selected. Only Wang Xizhi, as if he didn't hear anything, was lying on the bamboo couch in the east, eating baked wheat cakes in one hand and painting clothes in the other. When people came back, they reported what they saw to Xi Taiwei. When he knew that there was a quiet Wang Xizhi leaning on the east couch, he couldn't help clapping his hands and cheering. This is the son-in-law I want! So Chi Jian married his daughter Xi Jun to Wang Xizhi. This story has become two allusions of "East Bed" and "Lingtan".

There are more idioms on him than that. It is said that on one occasion, he wrote his words on a board and gave them to a sculptor for carving. The man cut the board with a knife, only to find that his handwriting was printed two-thirds deep in the board. This is the origin of the idiom "cut to the chase".

Wang Xizhi's best calligraphy in his life is Preface to Lanting Collection. That was his work in middle age.

There is a custom in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Every year on March 3rd of the lunar calendar, people go to the river to play, so as to eliminate the ominous. This is called [repair]. On March 3rd, the 9th year of Yonghe, Wang Xizhi and some scholars, 4 1 * * *, went to the Lanting River to build a temple. Everyone is writing poems while drinking.

After the poem was written, everyone collected the poems and synthesized a preface to Lanting Collection, which was publicly recommended by Wang Xizhi. At this time, Wang Xizhi was drunk. He took advantage of the wine, picked up a moustache pen and waved it on the cocoon paper. This preface is the preface to the Lanting Collection, which became famous throughout the ages. This post is a draft with 28 lines and 324 words. Described the scene of the collection of literati at that time. Because the author was in high spirits and was very proud of his writing. It is said that I couldn't write anymore. Among them, there are more than twenty "zhi" characters, which are written in different ways. Mi Fei in Song Dynasty called it "the best running script in the world". According to legend, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, collected the Preface to Lanting before his death and was buried in Zhaoling after his death. What's left is just a copy of others. What people see today is a Preface to Lanting. Wang Xizhi's calligraphy works are very rich. Besides Preface to Lanting Collection, there are other famous calligraphy works, such as Guan Nu Tie, Seventeen Tie, Two Xie Tie, Orange Tie, menstruation Tie, Quick Snow Clear Tie, Le Yi Lun, Huang Tingjing and so on. The main characteristics of his calligraphy are peaceful and natural, the brushwork is euphemistic and subtle, graceful and restrained, and later generations commented that "if you float in the clouds, you may be surprised by moss." Wang Xizhi's calligraphy is beautiful.

Wang Xianzhi (344-386), a calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was born in Yin Shan (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). Official to the secretariat, so the world called Daling, Xihe seven sons. I studied with his father when I was young, and then I followed Zhang Zhi's method. I didn't have an innovative method. I created my own style, which was as famous as my father and was called "Two Kings". His calligraphy is characterized by fine calligraphy, calligraphy, cursive script and official script, especially cursive script. His regular script is represented by the thirteen acts of Luo Shenfu, and his running script is duck head pill iron. The cursive masterpiece Mid-Autumn Post is listed as one of the "three wedding invitations" in Qing Dynasty. When commenting on his book, Maureen's fun said: "The brushwork is vigorous and sharp, and the posture makes it spicy, without any dust and shackles."

Wang Xianzhi was a giant among calligraphers in Wei and Jin Dynasties. The careful teaching and guidance of his father Wang Xizhi laid a solid foundation for his brushwork. As one of the masters in the late Wei and Jin Dynasties, he objectively provided him with the opportunity to learn from others and to be eclectic, and won the artistic status and prestige that kept pace with Wang Xizhi.

Wang Xianzhi's ink remains are rarely preserved, and the quantity is far less than that of Wang Xizhi. Because Taizong condescended to offer his books, Wang Xianzhi's books "only exist" in the imperial palace. Calligraphy in the early Song Dynasty emphasized "two kings". Song Taizong and Zhao Guangyi attached great importance to calligraphy, bought Mo Bao, a famous ancient emperor, and ordered Wang Shuzhu to copy ten volumes. This is the famous Spring Flower Pavilion. "Every minister who goes to the second palace will get a gift." Half of the posts are the works of "Two Kings". There are 73 pieces of Wang Xianzhi's calligraphy works, and more than 20 pieces have been verified by later generations as fakes or written by others. During the reign of Xuanhe in the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Huizong was good at Wang Xianzhi's calligraphy, and the collection of Wang Xianzhi's calligraphy in Xuanhe Pu Shu increased to more than 80 pieces. However, most of these ink books have not been preserved, and the remaining ink books are no more than seven, and they are all replicas. Fortunately, there are still some original prints of past dynasties, which have left valuable information for us to learn and understand Wang Xianzhi's calligraphy.