To teach Wang to draw a dot, Wei wanted Wang first to get a feel for "rocks falling off of mountains." To draw a horizontal line, Wang was asked to observe "clouds pressed flat across the broad sky."
他要王羲之寫「點」前體會「高峰墜石」之感，寫「一」前則多加觀察「千里鎮雲」，「豎」則如「萬歲枯藤」……。