Characteristics of Calligraphy Fonts

(1)Seal Script:

The Big Seal Script came first and then the Small Seal Script. The calligraphy is fine and straight with no staccato strokes.

Qin Shi Huang unified China in 221 BC, abolished the six different styles of the seal script and simplified it by the Prime Minister Li Si, and unified the script, later called the "Small Seal Script", the script is slightly long and neat with rounded and beautiful strokes.

(2)Official Script:

The official script is flat, neat and delicate. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the skimming and strokes of the dots were embellished to be upwardly raised, with variations of lightness and heaviness. Enhanced the beauty of the art of calligraphy, style also tends to diversify, the value of art appreciation greatly increased.

(3) Regular Script:

Regular Script is also known as the "regular book" "true book". Gradually evolved from the official script, more simplified, the shape of the character from flat to square, strokes in the province of the wave of Han Li, horizontal and vertical, characterized by the rule of neat so called Regular Script, because the calligraphy can be used as a "model" of the prevailing style of calligraphy, has been used to the present day.

(4) Running Script:

Running Script is the fast writing of the Regular Script, rumored to have begun in the Han Dynasty, it is not as neat as the Regular Script, and there is no draft of the Cursive Script. Running Script with Regular Script or close to Regular Script is called "Running Regular Script", and with Cursive Script or close to Cursive Script is called "Running Cursive Script".

(5) Cursive script: Cursive script is the character according to a certain pattern of dots and scratches of the word, the structure of the brief, the side of the false borrowing, and is not at will to write randomly, cursive writing is characterized by the value of the artistic appreciation of more than the practical value. It is generally divided into two kinds: Zhang Cao and Jin Cao. Chapter cursive is a simple and fast writing book of the official script of the book style, the word independent of the word is not even write, this grass is the regular script of the fast writing, point and painting flying, up and down between the traces of strokes tend to be involved.

How to practice calligraphy

1, copying

Copying is the most basic way to learn calligraphy, not only the first calligraphy to copy, that is, after a certain degree of foundation still need to copy. It is necessary to copy for learning regular script, and it is also necessary to copy for learning seal script, official script, running script and cursive script. A calligrapher's life is spent in copying, learning from copying, thinking from copying, and creating from copying.

Facsimile post, that is, with a thin paper masked in the post above, and then the pen with the shadow to go, according to the revealed handwriting to write, also known as "imitation of the shadow" or top writing. Facsimile also has a method called "tracing red", that is, printed with double hooks red line to fill in the word.

The method of copying post: the first step first tracing red. That is, from a post in a clear, complete word, with transparent and impermeable ink on thin paper, such as typing paper, glossy paper, tracing paper, etc., masked in the post, according to the outline of the word, with very fine lines hooked into the hollow word, which is called "double hook". Then the hooked word as a tracing book, fill in red ink, then fill in blue ink, and finally fill in ink, so that not only deepen the memory of writing, but also save paper.

Facsimile post should pay attention to the pen with the post to go, do not lose shape, to see the ins and outs of the strokes, speculate on its penmanship and structural form. Copying the post should be with "write" intention, will be written into a stroke, full and refined, do not follow the gourd to fill the paint.

The post, that is, on the basis of copying the post, the post of the word with a basic understanding of the law of the word, after the word, to the post to write. There are three methods of copying the post, the grid and the back.

To Pro, that is, the post on the opposite post frame according to write, this is the most convenient, the most commonly used method of Pro Post.

Ge Pro, that is, with a transparent paper grid (Tianzigraph, meter grid, nine palace grid, etc.) according to the type of writing. Mainly used to grasp the structure of the word parts.

Back Pro, that is, the post put away, from memory to write the words in the post, not only for its shape, but also for its God. After memorizing, you can set the words into a series or set the words into a piece, and then enter the stage of creation.

The copy of the post pen with the shadow away, the ancients how to write, how we write, size, length, width, thickness, square, diagonal and so on must be written according to the requirements of the post word, there are certain norms and constraints. Copying the post is characterized by easy to learn to the position of the structure of the ancients, but because the norms are too dead, but the loss of the ancients of the meaning of the pen, the pen is rigid and inflexible, so that people feel unable to let go, can not stand; Pro post or on the Pro, or the back of the Pro, or the Pro, to join many of the book of their own personality, so easy to get the meaning of the pen of the ancients, and easy to lose the position of the structure of the ancients. Write freely and casually, the pursuit of individuality, but get very little.

So in the copying must be combined with copying, first copy after the pro, not only to get the ancients of the pen method, but also to get the ancients of the structure of the law. When practicing, you can use the first copy and then copy, and then in turn copy, copy and then pro. Or use the "double hook" method to study the structural rules. Copying interspersed, complementary, the effect is very good. In copying, one should look, think and ponder more, and then put down the pen. The pen should be accurate, first look like, and then look like, in order to achieve both the form and the spirit. After copying, we should repeatedly check and summarize the lessons learned, improve in the negative, mature in the lesson.

2, first in and then out

Copying is the most basic and effective way to learn calligraphy. Copying is inheritance, is to learn from the ancients, learning from the former excellent posters in the beauty of the pen, the beauty of the word, the beauty of the chapter, the beauty of the flavor and momentum. But copying there is a key issue into the post and out of the post. Not into the post, write not into, or write out not like, is not able to dialog with the ancients, can not learn the ancient calligraphy. But not out of the post, that is, in and out, too much like the ancients, simply become a slave of the ancients, a little of their own personality is not, so write, and ultimately do not form their own style of calligraphy characteristics.

On the post and out of the post, the Qing dynasty Yao Mengqi said well: into the post "can not have me in, have me will be vulgar"; out of the post "can not have me in, no I will be mixed." "Can not have me in, no I will be mixed." "Can not have me in" that is to concentrate on practicing the ancients post, to grasp the spirit of the post, to "a word and a pen must come from the ancient post", not into the post will have no basis; "can not have no I

3, read the post good understanding

The post not only to Pro, but also important to read, learn the book good understanding, that is, from reading the post in the understanding, some of the ancients excellent post, not necessarily to Pro, as long as the careful reading, repeated flavor, realize the law and flavor, will naturally into their own calligraphy.

Reading the tablet, not read aloud the text of the tablet. The so-called reading post, which is a specialized term of calligraphy, that is, the calligrapher in copying the post before, or in the usual work in the margins, reading the post and the panoramic ink, that is, carefully analyze, study, pondering the post in each word of the brush strokes, the structure and the whole piece of work of the chapters, the momentum and flavor, while watching and remembering, and often can't help but use the finger to draw it up, the heart after the hand copying, excited.

The ancients read the post very seriously. Cao Cao is not only a famous politician, military, but also a famous poet, calligrapher, Hanzhong Museum in Shaanxi Province, there are rumored to be written for him "rolling snow" Clerical inscriptions. Legend has it that he liked Liang Guan's calligraphy, so he hung Liang Guan's characters in his tent and read them as soon as he had time, even when he marched and fought in the war, he didn't give up reading the posters. According to legend, Zhong Yao, a great calligrapher of the Three Kingdoms and Wei Dynasty, "sat down and painted the ground, and lay down and painted the covers", and was very diligent in learning calligraphy, paying special attention to reading and writing famous posters silently. Ouyang Xun, a calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, once found a stele written by Suo Jing, a calligrapher of the Jin Dynasty, while traveling, and read it over and over again, so that he sat down to read it after his legs became sore from standing. This continuous for three days before reluctantly leave.

Reading post as if with the ancients dialogue, make friends, to achieve the thought and feeling of **** Ming. Read the post from a point of a painting to start, carefully study and ponder the ancients with the pen, knot word, chapter and momentum, the flavor of the wonderful. Through reading, the eyes of God, subtle, in order to deepen understanding, exercise visual memory, enrichment, savings and improve art appreciation. Poster to a book, the book to see a hundred. Read post is not limited to one or two books, many calligraphers of ancient and modern practical experience proves that reading post is better than the post. Some of the posters, we do not necessarily pro, but can read, a deep understanding of the ancient works of calligraphy in the three flavors, accumulation of less into more, gradually absorbed and digested, in order to run into the bottom of the wrist, full of paper, naturally, the hand with the eye high, the eye so that the hand spirit. Into the eye, melt in the heart, out of the hand, the heart and hand, receive twice the result with half the effort.

Brush Words

Brush Words - refers to brush words written in accordance with the traditional law, rather than using a brush to write words at random. It is the first stage of learning calligraphy. How to write a good brush character is a very complex, very specific and big problem, not a thousand words can be said thoroughly.