Start and close pen:
Fiona Fang should be clear, perfect and clean about writing. Bao said, "when you start writing, there is no peak in the right direction, and there is no ink increase in the wrong direction." If there were no peaks, the shape would be perfect. Without ink, the strokes are clean. When you start writing, you will enter a square and then reverse into a circle. When closing the pen, it is necessary to pause or fold the pen to form a square and return to the front to form a circle. The above points are the first principles, so we should practice more.
Pen and pen:
When you are writing, the process of completing a word is formed by the interaction of starting and stopping. "Pause" means putting pressure on the pen and bending the pen to apply force to the paper. "Lift" means to lift or half lift the pen to continue writing. Generally speaking, you need to pick up a pen to write, and then you need to pick up a pen to shape a stroke or connect the next stroke. Finally shape the word. This is why calligraphy writing is an alternating process of raising and raising. Among them, there are more subtle changes, for example, there are points that are all mentioned and half mentioned, and there are also points that are light and heavy. This requires readers to experience it themselves.
Rotating pen and folding pen:
Besides the above, we also need to pay attention to the transfer of the pen and the pause of the pen. "Turn" is the method of circular strokes, and "Fold" is the method of drawing. Zhang Tingxiang once said, "Real books are shaped by stippling, so that we can see the nature at a turning point." . Among them, subdividing what you can see in ancient books can also be called flipping. It is expressed by the phrase "dragging on it", which means that the pen stops moving in the pen and the direction of the nib changes slightly into a U-turn. Make the outer corner square and get its brushwork. As for the rotation method, it is also called twisting method. The meaning of "moving down" in strokes is almost the same as that of "up", but it keeps turning forward and turning down with the trend, and its shape is the same as that of ㄟ, except that the outer corner is drawn into a circle, and the rotation range is greater. Jiang Menglin used a picture to illustrate it, and attached a poem: "Turn it over, bend it at right angles, twist it, and roll like a circle." This example is obvious.
Fang Bi and the round pen;
This part is more complicated, emphasizing the overall effect. Start, close, lift, stop, turn and fold as mentioned above, and slow down a little when writing to make the strokes more stable. With proper skills, at the beginning, end and corner, the strokes are moderate, which highlights the curvature and makes the whole structure look round and elegant. Fang Bi, on the other hand, highlighted the backbone of strokes in the above points, making the overall structure clear, straight, light, concise and powerful. Zhang Longyan said: "The square is straight and precise, and the round pen is strange." Very commendable.
Tibetan front and exposed front:
When it comes to a stroke, we can extend the methods of oblique, positive, overlapping, folding and returning. It is very important to know the usage of a stroke. The center of the calligraphy pen remains the same, which is the way to die. Tibetan front and exposed front are the most important. Hidden front is to hide the brush stroke in the strokes without revealing traces; Exposing the front is the natural exposure of the pen. Xu: "When using a pen, it is especially necessary to hide the front. If you don't hide in front, the words will be sick. " This sentence is very clear. If you don't hide your pen, you will lack the deep rhyme of the meaning, you can't be partial, and you will be sick if you don't get to the middle. The two should cooperate, hiding the front to cover its qi, revealing the front to longitudinal its qi, so that the words are vigorous and natural, that is, the Tao.