Does Wang Xizhi's original work exist?

None of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy works remain in the world, and all the works we know now are copied.

Wang Xizhi's original work has disappeared. It is said that Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, loved Wang Xizhi's calligraphy very much. He kept all the treasures of the world in his palace and buried them in his grave after his death. All the existing ones are replicas, and experts describe them with double hooks. Since the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the copies of Tang people have been regarded as treasures. In the Qing dynasty, even if all the public and private collections of Wang Xizhi's ink were counted, the number was only a few dozen pieces of paper. One thousand six hundred years after the death of Wang Xizhi, the manuscripts of the Tang people have become very few.

According to historical records, the Preface to Lanting said in the testamentary edict of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin that it should be placed under his head. In other words, this treasure should be in Zhaoling, not Ganling. However, in the Five Dynasties, Wen Tao, the secretariat of Yaozhou, stole Zhaoling. However, there is no Preface to Lanting Collection in his list of unearthed treasures, so experts infer that Preface to Lanting Collection is in Ganling.

: Wang Xizhi (303-36 1 year, 32 1 year -379), a famous calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was known as the "book saint". Linyi (now Linyi, Shandong Province) was born, then moved to Huiji (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province) Yin Shan, and lived in seclusion in Jinting County in his later years. Successive secretary, general Ningyuan, Jiangzhou secretariat, later literature and history records, right general. His calligraphy is good at calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy.

The style is peaceful and natural, the brushwork is euphemistic and subtle, and it is beautiful. Li Zhimin 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 doctrine of the mean." The masterpiece Preface to Lanting is known as "the best running script in the world". In the history of calligraphy, he and his son Wang Xianzhi were called "two kings".