Happy characters should be long in glyph, long in main stroke, and equidistant in horizontal and vertical directions.
when ancient calligraphers wrote the word "Xi", they often put two points across the horizontal picture. These two points of the current standard word are above the long horizontal. The stroke order of happy characters is: horizontal, vertical, horizontal, vertical, horizontal folding, horizontal, dot, left, horizontal, vertical, horizontal folding and horizontal.
The word "Happy" first appeared in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty, and the ancient word "Happy" is the original word of drum, which refers to an upright musical instrument with a mouth on the bottom, indicating that when you hear a wonderful musical instrument playing, you open your mouth and smile. It means that people are happy when they hear the drums. The original meaning is joy and happiness. "Xi, joy also. From the mouth. " It is also used as a verb to express love and hobby, and then it is extended to mean that some animals and plants are used to or suitable for some environmental conditions, or something is prone to some changes.
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The use of a pen in calligraphy is very important, which is the basis for us to learn calligraphy. The use of a pen includes starting, writing and closing. In the popular sense, starting a pen means starting to write, which is the first close contact between our brush and paper. Writing refers to the smooth operation of putting the pen on the paper, also known as writing, and closing the pen is also the end of a word. Therefore, a good word should have three parts: starting, writing and closing the pen.
The way of using ink directly affects the formation of this work. Ancient Chinese literati paintings attached great importance to the use of ink painting. They thought that combining calligraphy with painting reflected the literati's ideological pursuit. At the same time, we should pay attention to the use of water, which is very critical. There are thousands of forms of ink painting, which are realized through the use of water. Whether it is wet ink or dry ink, if you want to write well, you must use water.
note that when writing, there should be an echo relationship between structures, between words, and between stippling. How important the composition is, it is the key to the aesthetic feeling of a word. The composition and layout are very good, and this word is a masterpiece. It is a good word to embody the spirit of words between words and between lines.
calligraphy must have artistic conception. What is artistic conception? It is the embodiment of a calligrapher's thoughts and feelings and the sustenance of his thoughts. Calligraphers often use words to express their feelings about the world. Feel the artist's broad mind and loving heart through the aesthetic feeling of calligraphy, whether it is impassioned calligraphy or tactfully moving calligraphy, it can arouse readers' * * *. Artistic conception can be said to be a perfect combination of calligraphers' technical thoughts.