Wang Xianzhi (344-386) was a calligrapher of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, with the character Zijing (子敬), a native of Shanyin, Huiji (present-day Shaoxing, Zhejiang). He was the seventh son of Xizhi, and was the official of the Central Book Authorities, so he was known as the Great Authorities. When he was young, he learned calligraphy from his father, but later he took the method of Zhang Zhi and created his own style, which was the same as his father's. He was known as the "Two Kings". His calligraphy was excellent in regular, running, cursive, and clerical scripts, and he was especially famous for his running and cursive scripts. His regular script is represented by "Thirteen Lines of Luoshen Fu", and his running script is best known as "Duck Head Maru Post". Cursive masterpiece "Mid-Autumn Post", listed as one of the "Three Hi-Posts" of the Qing government. Ink forest fast things" commented on his book, "the brushwork is strong and sharp, the state of Xiao Zhi hot, without a little bit of dust and earth gas, without a point of shackles and restraints."

Wang Xianzhi was a giant among the group of calligraphers of the Wei and Jin dynasties. His father, Wang Xizhi's attentive teaching and guidance enabled him to lay a solid foundation of brushwork. As he was a latecomer among the famous calligraphers of the Wei and Jin dynasties, he was objectively provided with the opportunity to learn from the strengths of many schools and to excel in the beauty of all styles, earning him an artistic status and reputation alongside Wang Xizhi.

Wang Xianzhi's ink remains are rarely preserved, and the quantity is far less abundant than that of Wang Xizhi. Because Emperor Taizong had depreciated Xianzhi and did not buy his books, the writings of Wang Xianzhi in the inner sanctum "only existed". The calligraphy of the early Song Dynasty, and the "two kings", Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi attention to the ink, buy and collect ancient emperors and ministers of the ink, the order of the book Wang Zhuo copy engraved ten volumes, which is the famous "Chunhua Pavilion Post". "Where the ministers boarded the two houses, all to give." Half of the posters are works of the "two kings". Single recorded Wang Xianzhi post of seventy-three pieces, by the later test forgeries or others written by more than 20 pieces, the Northern Song Dynasty Xuanhe years, Song Huizong good Wang Xianzhi calligraphy, "Xuanhe Shu spectrum" collected by Wang Xianzhi handwriting increased to more than eighty pieces. However, the vast majority of these ink this is not preserved, the only surviving ink this, not more than seven, and are facsimiles. The good thing is that there are still some authentic engraved books in the past generations, which leave valuable information for us to learn about Wang Xianzhi's calligraphy.