从东晋到清代,王献之的历史影响经过了千馀年的流变过程。其间,褒扬与贬抑交织,每个时代的阐释角度各有不同,王献之的意义也得到了不断的丰富。其中以唐代为分水岭,唐代之前主要是在今体书法典范的讨论中不断寻找王献之的历史定位;自北宋起,则不再以二王的优劣作为讨论主题,开始了不同视角下散点式的讨论和阐释,阶段性特征非常明显。在这千馀年的流变过程中,有几个主题词几乎贯穿始终: From the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, the historical influence of Wang Xianzhi went through more than a thousand years of change. In the meantime, praise and derogatory intertwined, each era of interpretation of different perspectives, the meaning of Wang Xianzhi has also been constantly enriched. Among them, the Tang Dynasty was the watershed. Until the Tang Dynasty, the historical positioning of Wang Xianzhi was mainly sought in the discussion of the contemporary calligraphy model. Since the Northern Song Dynasty, the two Wang no longer took the pros and cons as the subject of discussion and began to disperse in different perspectives Point-style discussion and interpretation, the stage characteristics are obvious. In the course of more than a thousand years of evolution, several key words have been passed through almost always: