? In fact, as early as 1700 years ago, Wang had said something about how to post: "At the beginning of the book, you have to try your best to correct your hands and feet once, but twice you get less." Three times you look at it a little like this, four times you add, and five times you add. If it's raw, it can't stop. The second and third lines are coming. (Chapter 12 of Gesture Theory)
? It can be seen that at the beginning of writing, we can't get the best situation. At this time, we must first "correct our own hands and feet", that is, write stippling into images. The second step is to get better pictures. The third step is closer to the original post. The fourth step is to write more smoothly and naturally, and the fifth step is to add strokes, that is, naturally increase the pressure to improve the quality of stroke lines.
Let's take a look at Wang Xizhi's Zhong You Declaration Form.
The pen is sharp, the charm is coherent, the spirit is high, and the posture is myriad. This should be regarded as an excellent copy, which deserves careful consideration.
In fact, I think posting should be divided into several stages, step by step:
First, Lin Jing.
? At this stage, it is required to find the similarity and shape of strokes as far as possible and copy them completely according to the original post. The best way is to put the original post aside, write a word first, and write after him one by one. After proficiency, you can write more strokes, which can improve the speed appropriately. Note that at this stage, we don't need to add any self-elements, we just want to be as close as possible to the ancients. When copying, we should pay attention to the font potential and inclination, and pay attention to details such as front, hidden front and anti-surface.
Second, visit
? At this stage, we should not only pay attention to the similarity of strokes and fonts, but also pay attention to the overall charm, that is, we are required to be close to one line or several lines or the whole article, so that we can train our writing rhythm and coherence and deal with rules and regulations.
Third, face the back.
At this stage, we are required to restore the original post as much as possible without reading it, and the writer is required to have a deeper grasp and understanding of the original post and be able to remember fonts, strokes and so on. The original post is very difficult.
Fourth, Italy is coming.
? The premise of this stage is that the writer has a thorough understanding of the original post and can highly master the writing skills and methods. If there is a temporary intention, the style characteristics of other calligraphers will be added to the original post, and the personal style will often be different from the original post. Of course, the premise is that you can already look forward to it. If you claim to be interested in it from the beginning, it will be greatly useless, and you can even say that it is self-deception and counterproductive. As the highest realm of calligraphy copying, Lin Yi is the most difficult and confusing. Here we can enjoy the works of Lin Yi by several famous artists: