Legend has it that Wang Xizhi practiced calligraphy hard when he was a child. After a long time, the pool water used to clean the brush turned black. Later generations commented: "floating like a cloud, agile like a dragon", "the dragon leaps into the Tianmen, the tiger lies in the phoenix" and "it's natural, and the rich gods cover all generations". There are some idioms about Wang Xizhi, such as cleverness and quick marriage. The most obvious feature of Wang Xizhi's style of writing is exquisite brushwork and changeable structure.
Wang Xizhi's calligraphy influenced his descendants. Wu Zetian tried Wang Xizhi's book, and Wang Fangqing, the ninth great-grandson of Wang Xizhi, presented ten volumes of The Travels of Twenty-eight People to his great-grandfather and compiled Long Live the Tian Tong Post. After Wang Sengqian, Wang Ci and Zhiwang were kings in the Southern Dynasties, regular script was created.
Shi Zhiyong, the seventh grandson of Xihe, was a famous calligrapher in Sui and Tang Dynasties. During the post-war period, his descendants fell into chaos and lost their genealogy. Later generations are distributed in Shenyang, Helen and other places. Now it is known that the successors are Wang Qingkai, Wang Xiaodan and others.