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What is Brush Calligraphy

Brush Calligraphy has a long cultural history in China, and it has had a significant impact on our calligraphic works. So, how much do you know about brush calligraphy? The following is an introduction to brush calligraphy that I have organized for you, I hope it can help you.

Introduction to Brush Calligraphy

Brush calligraphy is a traditional art unique to China. Throughout the ages, Chinese characters were created by the working people, began to represent words in the form of pictures, and after thousands of years of development, evolved into today's writing, and the ancient long time to write with a brush, it gave rise to the brush calligraphy. Brush Calligraphy is based on the writing of Chinese characters with brushes, and as for other forms of writing, the laws of writing are not very different from those of brush writing, but are basically similar. The focus here is on brush calligraphy.

Brush calligraphy is now a **** there are six styles of calligraphy, namely, running script, cursive script, clerical script, seal script, regular script and horse six styles of calligraphy. Calligraphy works are judged by the lines, fluency, and overall quality of the script. China is the birthplace of the art and culture of calligraphy, and the first country to use the brush. China's brush calligraphers are endless, like Wang Xizhi, Huaisu, Su Dongpo, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu, Wang Duoduo, Liu Gongquan, as well as modern Sha Menghai, Qigong, Liu Huipu (living), etc., these literary elegance is a high level of calligraphy. The art of brush calligraphy needs to be carried forward by our younger generation, and we need to work hard.

Brush Calligraphy usually refers to soft brush calligraphy. Brush Calligraphy refers to the method and rules of writing Chinese characters with a brush. Including the execution of the brush, stroke, point drawing, structure, layout (distribution, rows, chapters) and so on. For example, the pen finger real palm virtual, five fingers QiLi; pen in the stroke spread hair; point to the pen with the intention of painting, Run crag the same; structure to the word shape, phase An echo; distribution intricate, sparse and dense appropriate, the virtual and real, the whole chapter through the gas; paragraph knowledge of the word of the ancient paragraph today, the word large paragraph small, rather high than low, and so on. In short, brush calligraphy for the development of the art of calligraphy in China has a role that can not be ignored, in today's is also worth continuing to carry forward!

What are the characteristics of brush calligraphy

Brush calligraphy now a **** there are six styles of calligraphy, that is, running script, cursive script, clerical script, seal script, regular script and horse script six styles of calligraphy.

Judging the merits of calligraphy is mainly through the lines of the font, fluency, and overall. China is the birthplace of the art and culture of calligraphy, and is also the first country to use the brush. China's brush calligraphers

endless, like Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing, Huaisu, Su Dongpo, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu, Wang Duoduo, Liu Gongquan, as well as modern Sha Menghai, Qigong, Liu Huipu (living), etc., these literary elegance is a high level of calligraphy everyone. The art of brush calligraphy needs to be carried forward by our younger generation, and we need to work hard.

Artistic Characteristics of Brush Calligraphy

Calligraphy is a peculiar cultural phenomenon in the world. It is unique to China (plus a few neighboring countries where the script originated from), loved by the public, enduring, rich in artistic connotations and forms, and capable of embodying the essence of the national culture and the aesthetic mind. Such an art of calligraphy fully qualifies as China's national treasure, and it is no less important than our traditional arts and cultural disciplines such as painting, poetry, music, and theater. Therefore, I have named the first chapter of this opening essay ? National Essence Theory? , idly in praise of this ? The essence of our culture is not as good as some tools in the interpretation of the national essence of the word said: ? The term "national essence" is not as important as what some toolkits say when interpreting the word "national essence". The term "national essence" is not as important as some tools in the interpretation of the word "national essence" say: "There is a conservative or blind worship of the meaning of".

The reason why our calligraphy has become a unique high art. A unique high-level art, in terms of object, the decisive factor lies in the special form of the Chinese characters.

The Chinese character is a square character, and each character occupies a square space, which is especially manifested in the printed characters, which are on one side, not too big, not too small, and neatly organized. But in this neat and tidy? The square space is small, but the almond is not very neat and tidy factors in, which has resulted in a variety of forms. They are simple and complex, long and flat; there are positive and diagonal, and between its parts there are points and even, there are back to back, there are piles and accumulations, there are heavy and and.

Although the basic strokes of the Chinese characters are few, in regular script, point, horizontal, vertical, jun, apostrophe, catch, mention, fold, go, team and so on about ten? Several kinds of strokes, but these strokes can be spelled out millions of different word graphics, because they have a multitude of ways to arrange and combine: up and down, left and right, rejoin and connect, cross, interspersed. So there are 10,000 Chinese characters with 10,000 different combinations, each with its own unique shape.