The basic characteristic of Chinese calligraphy lines is a wave of twists and turns

The basic characteristic of Chinese calligraphy lines is a wave with three twists and turns, which is correct.

The concept of "one wave with three twists and turns" extends to many areas of traditional art, and is in fact an important characteristic of traditional art. In calligraphy, the principle of "one wave and three twists and turns" runs through the creation of a point, a drawing, a character, a line and a chapter. Smaller twists and turns lurk within the larger twists and turns, and the smaller twists and turns echo and converge into the larger twists and turns.

Each vertical line, while in a downward trend, also has the intention of returning upward and coalescing towards the whole piece. In a line, a wave of three twists and turns is especially manifested as a wave-shaped zigzag, swaying from side to side, in the constant breaking of the previous set of "obstacles" in the search for opposing factors, in order to harmonize, to the next line, and with the previous line to seek to harmonize with the folding and until the completion of the whole piece, are throughout the "wave" and "folding".

The aesthetic significance of "One Wave, Three Folds" lies in the conscious pursuit of the transformation of the opposites of the unity in the contradiction, to achieve artistic depth, timelessness, and memorable. From one point of "One Wave, Three Twists" to one chapter, all of them are reflected in the cycle of repetition within a closed world, resulting in a lively life.

Line Training in Calligraphy:

Calligraphy is a kingdom of abstract lines. The reason why calligraphy lines are rich in magical expressiveness is that they have extremely complex attributes, such as texture, force, motion, three-dimensionality, rhythm and so on. In elementary school calligraphy class, due to the short time, the number of students, teachers tend to favor discipline, atmosphere, quantity (that is, a class to write a few or a few) and ignored the calligraphy line training.

Line is the language of the art of calligraphy, the art of calligraphy is the main constituent material, so in the usual teaching, I think in order to effectively improve the level of students, we need to strengthen the texture, force, three-dimensionality, dynamism, rhythm of the teaching.

The sense of texture or quality, refers to people in the aesthetic process, the surface texture of the modeling object (such as hard, soft, smooth, rough, delicate, soft) and the measurement of feelings and associations to achieve the real degree. Calligraphy lines do not have a certain texture, some rough and heavy, some fine and moist, but all show a certain texture.

The so-called "book" in the so-called "heavy as the collapse of the clouds", "light as a cicada wing"; "brush strokes" in the description of the dots and drawings, such as "thousands of miles of clouds", "mountain falling stone", "long life withered vine", etc., this is the aesthetic feeling, in fact, to explain the texture of the line.