Highlight the main pen, clear priorities:
The main strokes of running script are the strokes that play the role of backbone and tripod in font. Finding the right main pen is the key to practicing running script well. In writing, it is necessary to highlight the main strokes and improve the auxiliary strokes, so that the whole font appears clear and energetic between strokes.
Proper structure and mellow Lian Bi;
Although the structure of running script is not as strict as regular script, it doesn't mean that you don't pay attention to structure and can do whatever you want. The structural rules of running script are similar to regular script, but it should be noted that the writing methods of some radicals are simplified or even written, but their positions in compound fonts have not changed.
There is also a running script skill that is not known to ordinary people: the structure of running script, in order to make up for the width of the blank, some words can be written with thick strokes and thick strokes, which is more vigorous and powerful.
Dew front put pen to paper:
Dew front means that the exposed pen tip is convenient for writing. Because it is exposed on the front of the pen, it is relatively simple and light to use the pen, and the pen gesture is relatively lively, which is easy to echo up and down.
Next to put pen to paper:
Side strokes are often horizontal strokes and vertical strokes, but only slightly sideways when writing.
Write against the wind:
To go against the trend is to do the opposite, go against the trend and start writing. Correct writing is the brushwork of seal script, that is, the so-called "hiding the head and protecting the tail, the strength lies in it", which makes the lines round and thick and full of implicit beauty.
The development history of running script:
Running script is a kind of calligraphy between regular script and cursive script, which appeared in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. The name of the running script first appeared in Wei Heng's Four Books in the Western Jin Dynasty: Zhong (Yao) and Hu (Zhao) all studied calligraphy.
Zhang Huaiguan's Shu Duan in the Tang Dynasty recorded: "A calligrapher is like Liu Desheng. That is, the book is small and fake, and the affairs are simple and popular, so it is called a running account. " Zhang Huaiguan also said in "On Books": "Husband's calligraphy is neither grass nor true, leaving the party and avoiding circles, and caring about seasonal Mencius. Those who are true are called true, and those who bring grass are called grass."
In the Ming Dynasty, Feng Fang had a more vivid description in Ji Shu: "Write without stopping, write without engraving, gently turn and press again, like running water, without interruption, for business will last forever." Running script is popular and widely spread because of its unique artistic expression and wide practicability, such as flowing, fast writing, elegant and simple.
After the golden period of Wei and Jin Dynasties and the development period of Tang Dynasty, running script reached a new peak in Song Dynasty and gradually occupied the mainstream position in various calligraphy styles. Throughout the long history of calligraphy, the development of seal script, official script and regular script has ups and downs, while running script is immortal, which has always been a prominent study in calligraphy. Great calligraphers of past dynasties wrote a glorious history of running script development.