What does calligraphy mean? What are the rules of calligraphy?

Calligraphy is the art form of writing Chinese characters or other words with brushes, pens, ink, paper and other tools, and is one of China's traditional culture and cultural relics, with a long history and deep cultural heritage. Calligraphy as an art form, its creative process has certain rules and requirements, the rules are as follows:

1, stable physical and mental state. Before the creation of calligraphy, you need to keep your mind calm, your body relaxed, and focus your attention into a state of concentration.

2, fine brush skills. Calligraphy has many forms of expression, including clerical script, regular script, running script, cursive script and so on. Different scripts have certain requirements on the fineness and speed of the strokes, which need to be practiced to continuously improve the accuracy and coordination of the strokes and strokes.

3. Strict stroke structure. The composition of strokes in calligraphy is one of the important elements that make up the whole work, and it needs to be combined with spatial combinations and layouts on the basis of character shapes to form a font form that conforms to the aesthetics of the law and avoids being overly disorganized and diffuse.

4. Tight structural layout. Calligraphy works need to have a good combination and layout to ensure that the overall effect is coordinated and beautiful. The work needs to have obvious levels and structures, as well as reasonable primary and secondary relationships and sense of rhythm.

5, outline the appropriate ink color flavor. Calligraphy works need to pay attention to the ink color depth, intensity, thickness, lightness and other elements, and at the same time need to pay attention to different fonts need to express the quality of the ink color, to achieve the required ink color flavor.

6, personal style. Calligraphy needs to have a personal style and characteristics, not only to reflect their own characteristics, but also to have the traditional aesthetic value and normative.

In the creation of calligraphy, there are some other details that need attention:

1, the preparation of ink. Choose a high-quality ink block, put the ink block into the ink cartridge, add the right amount of water (not too much), wait until the ink block is gradually cooked, slowly add water, stir well to use.

2, choose the right pen. Calligraphy pens are of various types, commonly used brushes, hard pens, fountain pens and so on. When choosing a pen, you need to choose according to the requirements of different fonts and personal pen habits.

3, the writing process, pay attention to the flexibility of the wrist, do not use excessive force on the wrist, resulting in wrist pain or future long-term injury.

4, in the process of writing, pay attention to the appropriate rhythm and pause, not a breath of fresh air, resulting in rough and unrefined handwriting.

5, before creating, you can practice a few times on the draft paper or exercise book, to master the basic strokes of the font, so as to be more skillful and comfortable in the formal creation.

Calligraphy requirements

1, neat strokes: calligraphy needs to keep the strokes neat and orderly, to avoid problems such as roughness, trembling, intermittent, etc., and to try to make each stroke of the thick and thin, length, curvature, and staccato and so on are very coordinated.

2, simple strokes: calligraphy needs to be simple, try to avoid too flashy or cumbersome strokes, but also need to pay attention to the fullness of the strokes, smooth, concise and powerful modeling.

3, correct posture: calligraphy needs to maintain a proper sitting posture and pen posture, to maintain a comfortable and natural posture, and pay attention to avoid fatigue of the hands, wrists and shoulders.

4, ink light and heavy: Calligraphy needs to master the ink light and heavy effect, the proportion of ink and water to master, ink color shades should also be just right, in order to show a rich emotional and artistic mood.

5. Regularity of characters: Calligraphy needs to maintain the regularity and wholeness of fonts, avoiding different sizes, loose structures or lack of depth, in order to maintain the good visual effect and beauty of calligraphy.

6, far-reaching mood: calligraphy needs to show a deep, far-reaching, connotative mood, through the work to express the realm of life or the theme of the ideology pursued by the calligrapher.