What does calligraphy mean?

1, vitality is divided into two aspects.

On the one hand, it is the so-called spirit likeness, that is, in the process of copying, you continue to practice after reaching the shape, so as to achieve similar performance, which can be achieved by increasing the number of copying. It is reflected in the strength of each stroke, the avoidance of structural arrangement, the center of gravity, the width, etc. The density of composition is the expression of spirit.

On the other hand, it is an unrepeatable mental outlook naturally formed through long-term accumulation and personal experience. As the old saying goes, the words are as they are, and everyone's habit of summing up words is related to personal cultivation and pursuit.

2. The connotation of vitality and spirit

In a narrow sense, the essence of calligraphy mainly includes the following aspects:

Calligraphy refers to the art of expressing emotions with Four Treasures of the Study as a tool. The particularity of tools is an important aspect of the particularity of calligraphy art, and it is an important part of calligraphy techniques to fully embody the performance of tools with the help of Four Treasures of the Study. Without Four Treasures of the Study, there would be no calligraphy art.

Calligraphy art is based on Chinese characters. The particularity of Chinese characters is another important aspect of calligraphy particularity. China's calligraphy can not be separated from Chinese characters, and the form of Chinese character stippling and the collocation of radicals are the contents that writers pay more attention to. Different from other pinyin characters, Chinese characters are a combination of form, sound and meaning, which has strong formal significance. The so-called "six books" of the ancients refer to six methods of pictographic, fingering, comprehending, pictophonetic, transliteration and borrowing of Chinese characters, which is of great guiding significance to the analysis of Chinese character structure.

The artistic background of calligraphy is the traditional culture of China. Calligraphy is rooted in China traditional culture, which is the background of its existence and development. Calligraphy theory has its own systematicness, integrity and orderliness. Calligraphy theory, like other literary theories, includes not only the technique theory of calligraphy itself, but also the aesthetic theory of calligraphy, all of which shine with the wisdom of ancient China literati. The theory of how to express the categories of "spirit, qi, bone, flesh and blood" in the essence of calligraphy, the theory of techniques such as brushwork, calligraphy and composition, and the theory of creation and evaluation all have their own systems.

The essence of calligraphy art itself includes brushwork, font, composition, pen and ink style, brush gesture and so on. Calligraphy brushwork is the core content of its techniques. The brushwork, also known as "using a pen", refers to the pen-lifting method with a front. Morphology, also known as "knot" and "structure", refers to the relationship of collocation, insertion, echo and avoidance. Composition, also known as "white cloth", refers to the overall layout of a word, including the handling of the relationship between words and lines. Ink method is the method of using ink, which refers to the treatment of thick and thin dry and wet ink.