Exploring "House Leak Traces"

When Huaisu asked Yan Lugong for advice on how to use a pen, Yan Lugong used the leak mark in the house to describe how to use a pen. Huaisu understood it after listening to it!

So what are "house leakage marks"? This is certainly a question worth exploring.

To detect leakage marks in a house, you must first consider the following conditions:

1. The roughness of the wall.

2. The falling raindrops bear the weight and try their best to move downwards.

3. Keep a steady flow.

Focusing on these three points, if you want to bring them out in calligraphy, you must first use the pen in the center, and when using the pen, you must keep the pen between the "hairs" without breaking the tension and write against the trend. With this understanding, you can understand why you have to "sway left and right" when using the pen. Swinging left and right is to achieve the "leak mark" when using the pen. Specifically, when practicing, use wrinkled paper to imitate the rough wall. As shown below:

Another key is not to write too fast, and to keep the ink and pen "wetting" on the paper. Allow time for the ink on the pen to "get into the paper".

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Today is November 15, 2019, and I discovered a new thing, the so-called house There are leakage marks, and there is also a gathering force of rainwater coming from nothing, and then flowing down. The accumulation of momentum before flowing down is a very important detail. This is one of the reasons why writing brushes talk about "momentum", and it is also a secret of brushwork that is not easy to discover. Just like our current "tug of war" competition, when you grab the rope, you have to find a suitable position and posture to exert force in advance! In calligraphy, this posture is Shishi, which is a posture in which the pen is adjusted into a counter-current Shishi stroke. Then the center will exert force, or the wing forward will exert force.

Today is March 6, 2020. Regarding the use of the nose and neck brushwork, it is actually a "rogue" brushwork in calligraphy. It can only be understood but cannot be explained, but it is indeed a super advanced technique. , and it is a dynamic technique. In the calligraphy theory of "脄桄", the pronunciation of "脄" is: "NU". The original meaning is bleeding from the nostrils. Another explanation is: twisting and rubbing. And "愄愄" means that the pen moves against the trend and rubs against the paper. . In horizontal strokes, the strokes naturally move up and down slightly; in vertical strokes, they move left and right, bucking the trend.

The ancients described the "house leak mark" as the "N-fold" brushwork. When it rains, the water flows down the wall. Although it flows from top to bottom, it is generally vertical, but when you look closely, it is winding and undulating, and it is full of natural interest when writing. Lifting, pressing, and lowering are done in one go, so that the scattered, entangled, and lateral edges can be adjusted and blended into the painting to achieve the purpose of center strokes. Sun Guoting, a calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, said in "Calligraphy Manual": "In one painting. , becomes undulating at the edge (sound: describing the tip of the MIAO tree); within a point, everything is as low as the hair." He used poetic language to summarize the subtle principles of "brushwork".