A Summary of Wang Jin's Book Theory

To learn books, we must first study the traditional inscriptions and observe the laws before we can talk about innovation. We must go through a hard quantitative change of "joining" in order to realize the qualitative change of "leaving". In the eyes of the world, "Zhang Dian is drunk in the Soviet Union" is extremely crazy, but if the ancient law is brought to justice, there are traces to be found, and it is rare to believe it. Nowadays, when people write books, they value innovation and change, and seek the so-called "personality" with a little brushwork, which has created modern calligraphy and led to the prevalence of "ugly books". Innovators have no intention of working hard on techniques, but are committed to the reform of tools and writing methods. Bamboo sticks, branches, fingers, toes and mops do everything they can, and even draw a bow to please the public. The layman applauds, while the Fang family is terminally ill, which is called "Wild Fox Zen". This kind of "writing" is difficult to describe with "calligraphy", so we should discard the false and retain the true, trace back to the source and restore the true colors of "calligraphy".