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Wang Xizhi - Definition and Overview

Names
Chinese:王羲之
Pinyin:Wáng Xīzhī
Wade-Giles:Wang Hsi-chih
Zi:Yìshào (逸少)
Hao:Dànzhāi (澹斋)
Also known as:Sage of Calligraphy
(Shūshèng, 書聖)

Wang Xizhi (303-361) is a famous Chinese Calligrapher in the 4th century AD. His most famous work is the Lanting Xu, the preface of a collection of poems written by a number of poets when gathering at Lan Ting near the town of Shaoxing in Zhejiang province and engaging in a game called qu shui liu shang (曲水流觴). The original is lost, but there is a number of fine tracing copies and rubbings.

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