First of all, the center
1, ancient calligraphers often said that "books are expensive to use", so what does the ancients mean by "zhong"? Usually, the most important tip of a brush is called primary hair, and the surrounding hair is called secondary hair. When we write, let the main hair of the pen often run in the center of the stroke, which is called "middle pen" (also called "positive front");
2. This writing can ensure that the ink contained in the pen tip is injected into the Xuan paper from the main pen of the pen and penetrates to the edge of the stroke. The stippling is thick in the middle and light on both sides, which has a three-dimensional and vivid effect. This is very important from the point of view that ancient people wrote with inkstones. Of course, if modern ink is used as a book, this effect is not obvious, and we will talk about it in detail in the section of pen and ink methods;
3. In terms of brushwork skills, the pens used in this center are highly praised by calligraphers of all ages. From the calligraphers' works of various styles, such as seal script, official script, regular script and cursive script, it can be determined that the pen is mainly the central pen, especially seal script, which is completely the central pen. Therefore, Chinese strokes can be said to be the basic strokes of China's calligraphy art tradition;
4. From the effect of brushwork, the center can always run in the middle of stippling when lifting the pen, and the ink drips down along the pen tip and seeps evenly around, so stippling has the disadvantages of emphasizing the light below, the light below, the left light, the right light or the left light. The center was praised by the ancients as having the aesthetic feeling of "painting sand with a cone", "Yin Yinni" and "leaking marks", so it has always been.
Second, the flank
1, the so-called side front is actually an extended usage of the point, and the word "side" comes from the "side" in the eight-character method of Yong, that is, "point". There has always been a debate in calligraphy. Some people say that rowing sideways is rowing sideways. In fact, the two are not the same thing. Profile is also a kind of brushwork, which will be discussed later.
2. Why did the ancients call it "side" instead of "point"? Chen Si, a great calligrapher in the Song Dynasty, made an incisive exposition in the first aspect of the Eight Laws of Yongzi, Volume II of the Essentials of Bookstore: "What's the point of talking about the surface?" As the saying goes, it is named after saying that the pen front cares about the right and judges that it is in danger. If you don't talk, you don't care if you are right, and there is no tendency to move forward and retreat;
3. Look around, the enemy is weak, so the side is not dangerous, it is dull. If it is dull, the awn angle will be hidden and the divinity of the book will be lost. The pen is like a cloud: the edge of the pen makes the ink drop, and Xu Naixian shows it, so the edge is also good. "
4. Chen Yi in Yuan Dynasty said in "The Tips of Hanlin: Circle Method": "The lateral acupoints change endlessly, and they all squat with the side potential, and the head and tail care for each other, forming three tricks, such as restraining, lifting, flying, squatting and standing, with willow leaves, arrows, squatting and chestnuts." These two paragraphs clearly show that the lateral symmetry point is based on the writing method of side pen into the paper;
5. The ancients generally used "the center is the bone" and "the flank is the potential". Wang Xizhi's "Mrs. Wei Ti's Sketch" describes the silhouette: "The point falls like a rock, but it is as real as a collapse", and also describes the momentum of the point. From the application and effect, except for the strokes of seal script, most of the strokes of silhouette are almost slightly sideways;
6. In the place where the pen is started and collected, the role of the pen used by the lateral front is the most obvious. The actions of collecting the pen horizontally, collecting the pen vertically, and skimming and pressing the pen are all undertaken by the lateral front. When writing, if we can accurately grasp the use of flanks, we will write magnificent, ups and downs and endless charm calligraphy works;
Third, lean forward.
1, offset refers to the offset of the pen tip to the braille side when carrying the pen. Often, when the pen tip enters the paper, it sweeps the pen, and the direction pointed by the pen makes an angle of 90 degrees with the direction of the pen movement, so the writing effect is shiny and hairy at the same time, and the word state is different. Therefore, the offset is used to take the state;
2. In the Song Dynasty, Su and Huang were masters of biased writing, Zhang Xu and Huai Su occasionally used biased writing, and Wang Xizhi often saw biased writing. Some people think that deviation is the failure of calligraphy, but it is not. This is a widely used skill in calligraphy.
Four. Tibetan front and exposed front
1, hidden front, refers to the beginning and end of strokes are hidden but not exposed. Generally, when opening a pen, enter before using it, and exit before using it when closing the pen. Zang Feng's pen is actually a kind of brushwork that pursues rich and round lines of calligraphy. Power is hidden in stippling, and the written words give people a subtle and vigorous feeling.
2. Dew front, as the name implies, refers to the dew front of the strokes written, which is generally more common in cursive. This brushwork emphasizes the echo between strokes, strokes and stippling, or the connection between strokes. When you start writing, you don't have to rush in, you can rush in and follow the trend, especially calligraphy creation, which is free and unrestrained in a state of ecstasy.
3. In order to make the work coherent, natural and vivid, as a cultured calligrapher, his attention is more focused on the expression of the momentum and artistic conception of the whole work, and in the process of writing, the skills of "middle, edge, hiding, revealing, virtual and real" often appear naturally, rather than deliberately.