According to legend, Wang Xizhi wrote Preface to Lanting after drinking. When he woke up, he was surprised: Why did he write so beautifully? So I wrote more pairs when I was awake, and my husband was not as good as me.
It is estimated that everyone who writes has had the experience of writing after drinking. Today we will talk about drinking and writing. Simply put, alcohol can make people excited, focus on things that are particularly impressive, and ignore the details that they usually pay attention to. The self-discipline of writing after drinking is reduced, and writing is more intense, but the coordination of movements and fine motor skills will be inaccurate. This is sometimes when you look back after drinking, you will find that there are occasional highlights in the book, or the temperament of the whole article is different from that when you wake up, or even different from that when you usually write.
After drinking, strokes are often out of control, typographical errors, and handwriting is scribbled. The most common ones are missing words and typos, and there are several smears and typos in Preface to Lanting Collection. This is roughly in line with our estimation of drinking state, and we are free from the bondage, but we are a little confused.
The influence of drinking on calligraphy works depends on the calligrapher's attainments. To put it bluntly, writing after drinking is actually a real natural expression level. Some calligraphy lovers talked and wrote after drinking. I'm afraid this is not true. In fact, more people will tremble when holding a pen (writing brush) after drinking, let alone writing any excellent works.
Whether calligraphy belongs to technology or art has been debated endlessly. In fact, from the perspective that high-level calligraphy works can be written after drinking, calligraphy seems to belong to the technical category.