1、 ? pen
Brushes can be divided into hard brushes and soft brushes. Hard hair includes wolf hair, purple hair and so on. The bristles are thick and elastic, which is conducive to hanging upside down. Suitable for writing small print or cursive script, used by calligraphers before Qing Dynasty.
Soft hair is mainly wool, and the brush hair is soft and delicate, with a large amount of ink, which is suitable for writing big characters or letters, official scripts and seal scripts. Soft hair is less elastic and difficult to write. Beginners can use soft hair training to gain the ability to control the writing brush. In addition, a brush made of soft and hard bristles in a certain proportion is called a "double-stranded brush", which can be between soft and hard bristles. Brush can be divided into lower case, middle case, upper case, lifting pen and bucket pen.
2、 ? black
Ink can be divided into three categories according to varieties, namely, oil smoke, pine smoke and concurrent smoke. The ink made from tung oil and other animal and vegetable oils is called oily smoked ink. Ink made from pine and other smoked ashes is called Song Yanmo. Pine smoke is black and heavy, and oil smoke is black and bright. Smoking at the same time is to take the advantages of both and discard the disadvantages of both.
Now calligraphy generally uses ink, which can save grinding time and be more convenient. Calligraphy can use ordinary ink, and creation can use better ink, such as "China Ink" and "Yidege Ink".
3. Paper
Beginners can buy some cheap meta-book paper and fringed paper, and newspapers can also be used to practice writing. Calligraphy practice and creation mainly use Xuan paper. There are many kinds of Xuan paper, which can be divided into raw Xuan, cooked Xuan and semi-cooked Xuan according to their water absorption. It can also be divided into two feet, three feet, four feet and five feet according to the paper size.
In addition to ordinary Xuan paper, there is also a kind of paper specially prepared for writing couplets, which we usually call "tile paper". Anhui rice paper is the best. Xuan paper from Sichuan and Zhejiang can be used for calligraphy creation.
4、 ? inkstone
An inkstone is a tool for grinding and holding ink, also known as an inkstone. As early as the Neolithic Age, there were ink grinding tools, and in the Tang Dynasty, there were inkstones. At present, the most famous inkstones are Duanyan in Guangdong and She Yan in Anhui. Generally, the inkstone with more ink and fine ink quality is the top grade, such as Duanyan and She Yan. It is most convenient for beginners to hold ink in a small dish or bowl.
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1. Hold the pen like chopsticks.
How to pick up food with chopsticks and how to write calligraphy-this is a very simple and scientific experience proved by practice. Don't blindly follow the calligraphy methods handed down from generation to generation, but dare to break the incorrect rules and regulations.
Don't hold the pen tube hard, otherwise it will be awkward to write around, the strokes will be stiff and rigid, the weight and speed will not be controlled, and the words will not be natural or change. When writing, pay more attention to the trajectory straightness of strokes and the proportional position between strokes, instead of just paying attention to the shape change of strokes.
2. Draw a circle before you put pen to paper
Before you put pen to paper, draw a circle in the air so that the words you want to write do not exceed this circle, which means that the height of your pen, lifting your wrist or hanging your elbow, etc. are all in line with the requirements and natural.
If you write small print, you can draw a circle even if your wrist is stuck on paper; If you write big characters, you must draw a suitable big circle. You can't draw without hanging your wrists and elbows. Therefore, when writing, there is no fixed standard for the height of the pen, whether the wrist should be lifted, whether the elbow should be hung, and to what extent. It depends on the size of the text at that time.
3. Knotting words is the key.
China's calligraphy is beautiful, beautiful and artistic. The key lies in its frame structure and writing pen. Calligraphy should start with the knot of words. When writing, we should pay attention to the position of the strokes that make up the word, the direction and angle of each stroke, the distance between strokes, the density relationship and so on.
The position, angle and distance of each stroke that constitutes the whole word are correct. If it is "accurate", it will look good. Not by the shape of the pen, but by change. Pay attention to the overall image when writing, and pay attention to tightening first and then loosening on the bookshelf (or tightening the top and loosening the bottom, tightening the left and loosening the right, making the top small and the bottom big, narrowing the top and widening the bottom; Small left and big right, narrow left and wide right).
Kung fu is not only practiced.
Writing is not like building a house. You must lay a good foundation first. While learning regular script, you can also insert some cursive scripts, which will play a greater role in writing regular script and understanding the relationship between strokes of regular script.
"When writing a model, it should be practical. Its stippling should be left and right, and it is not dull from the beginning." The regular script written in this way avoids writing the regular script as the word "death" that has nothing to do with a painting. "Writing lines should be standardized, and the position should be gathered and scattered without losing the degree."
That is to say, when practicing cursive script, the basic relationship between the big shape of the word and the distance and position between strokes must conform to the rules of regular script, otherwise it will lose its statutes and the word will not be beautiful. If the cursive script written, especially cursive script, is unrecognizable and messy, it is not calligraphy art.
5. Plagiarism is a survey.
Beginners can practice by covering the template copybook with transparent paper or film.
(When writing on film, add a little washing powder or soap to the ink) There are two ways: one is to cover the copybook with paper and write directly with a brush; The other is to cover the copybook with paper and write the central backbone of each pen with single-line pens (such as pencils, ballpoint pens and pens). On this basis, every "meat" is processed on the trunk of that thin line, which is called indirect calligraphy.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-writing brush calligraphy