How to learn inscriptions on bronze?

Writing inscriptions, like learning other calligraphy styles, can be roughly divided into two stages: copying and creating. Beginners should start from copying. If they can't master modeling skillfully, it's better to copy first and then come back. Don't covet books. Beginners should make a lesson plan and remember a few words every day to achieve the degree of understanding, accurate writing and memory. If you teach three words a day, it will leave a deep impression in your mind and be reflected on time, then you can learn more than 500 words in half a year, which is a leap. The most important thing in learning books is perseverance. The ancients said: "Perseverance can open the stone." This is also called!

When the sketch reaches a certain level, you can do creative exercises. Creation includes the creation of temporary books and collections with creative consciousness.

For creative temporary books, we should extract a paragraph from the inscription, first study the inscription and select an interesting paragraph. It is a good structure for a temporary book to have complete words and phrases at the beginning and end.

The creation of word sets is much more difficult than that of temporary books, and it requires a good knowledge of literature and calligraphy. To write poems, poems and couplets in inscriptions on bronze, we must first choose words from inscriptions on bronze. In the process of selecting books, reference books are essential, such as collation of ancient books, Jin Wen Bian, Shuo Wen Jie Zi, Etymology and so on. Which are the most common, scholars should be fully prepared. Bronze inscriptions are used for a long time and have many styles, so we should pay attention to words with similar styles when receiving words. After the completion of the word set, we must absorb and digest it, and make more efforts to write a calligraphy work with a unified style to make it a good creation. This is the truth of "gathering thousands of meters to cook a pot of porridge". If the words are not digested after integration, but copied, even if the words are correct, they are just patchwork clothes (that is, the robes worn by monks), which is ultimately uncoordinated. Ouyang Xiu, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, said: "Articles are most afraid of clothes." Especially calligraphy works.

Of course, when writing inscriptions, we should focus on temporary writing. The purpose of temporary writing is to understand and use inscriptions. To achieve this goal, we should read some ancient books, such as The Book of Songs and Historical Records, so as to understand some ancient history and ancient vocabulary. This is the artistic accomplishment of kung fu outside the book, and you can't learn it all your life.

So many inscriptions, which one is better? You can choose your favorite calligraphy to learn (beginners should start from the right place). Once you are familiar with one, you can learn another, and you can learn from it without asking for more. After you are familiar with a few inscriptions, you will naturally master them. Learning Xiao Zhuan, Han Li, or other calligraphy styles downstream of this basic point will make you feel comfortable.