Wang Xizhi's calligraphy in the Eastern Jin Dynasty is original, and his running script and cursive script are fluent and natural, "floating like a cloud and agile as a dragon". He was addressed as a "book saint". Among the following calligraphy works, his masterpiece is Preface to Lanting.

Wang Xizhi, Shao Yiren, Han nationality, a famous calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, is known as the "book sage". Langya, a native of Linyi, later moved to Huiji 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. 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".