According to the legend, Wang Xizhi’s Lanting Xu (王羲之蘭亭序)(written in 353 CE) was handed down by the Wang family from generation to generation. Wang Xizhi’s seventh-generation descendant Zhiyong (智永) was a monk and also a famous calligrapher and his Qian Zi Wen in cursive and regular scripts (真草千字文) has been widely studied by calligraphers throughout … Continue reading Four imitation copies of Lanting Xu (蘭亭序摹本四種）