Cursive script creation is an important part of contemporary calligraphy creation, but many people’s understanding of cursive script is only based on the impression of dragons and phoenixes dancing, so it is very necessary to correctly understand the creative methods of cursive script. What I bring to you below is brush cursive calligraphy. I hope you like it. Appreciation of brush cursive calligraphy characters
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The evolution of cursive script
From the perspective of the development of cursive script: the development of cursive script can be divided into early cursive script, Zhang cursive script and modern cursive script. Three major stages of grass. Early cursive script is a calligraphy style parallel to official script, generally called official script. In fact, it is mixed with some seal cursive styles. The early cursive script broke the rules and strictness of official script and was a hasty writing method. It's called "Zhangcao". Zhangcao is an elegant cursive style that combines early cursive script and Han official script. It has distinct waves, the strokes are connected in a wave shape, the characters are independent, the characters are all square, and the strokes are horizontal. Zhangcao was most popular during the Han and Wei dynasties. It was revived in the Yuan Dynasty and transformed into the Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Zhangcao was further transformed into "Cao", removing the traces of official script strokes, and the strokes between the upper and lower characters were connected. The radicals were also simplified and borrowed from each other, which was called "Jincao". Jincao evolved from Zhangcao's elimination of waves and challenges. Jincao style has been popular since the Wei and Jin Dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty, Jincao was written more indulgently, with continuous and sweeping strokes and various character shapes, which was called "Kuaicao", also known as Dacao. Today, the aesthetic value of cursive writing far exceeds its practical value. Cursive script is a combination of dots and dashes of words according to certain rules, with a simple structure and borrowed radicals. It is not just random writing. One of the main features of cursive symbols is that the strokes are connected with hooks, including upper and lower hooks and left and right hooks. The horizontal tendency of Lihua's brushwork provides the basis for the cursiveization of left and right hooks. Zhang Cao's brushwork uses the "Yi" shape, while modern Cao's brushwork uses the "S" shape. This is the fundamental difference between the two. Indulgent brushwork and messy stippling are also called big grass or wild grass.
Representative figures of cursive script
Zhangcao originated in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The font has the form of official script, and the characters are distinct and not connected. There are different opinions on the name of Zhangcao in the past dynasties. untie. It is most ridiculous to say that Zhangcao got its name from the chapter character in "Jijiuzhang" after seeing that "Jijiuzhang" has been written in cursive since the late Han Dynasty. Some people say that Emperor Zhang was fond of cursive script or ordered memorials to be written in cursive script. It is even said that Emperor Zhang created cursive script. This is all speculation. There is a saying that the chapter of the constitution is synonymous with the chapter of the constitution book and the regular script, which is in line with the fact that early cursive script has a slight eight-point brushstroke meaning, the characters are not related to each other, and there are rules and regulations to follow in the omission of strokes. Many people in recent times believe this theory.
There are two theories about when the modern grass originated: Zhang Zhi in the late Han Dynasty and Wang Xizhi and Wang Qia in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Judging from the handed down tables and posts, as well as the unearthed Han bamboo slips and Han bricks, it can be seen that at the end of the Han Dynasty, when the eight-point script was used as the regular script, writing methods that approximated the real script had already appeared. Cursive writing will also mutate accordingly. Cui Yuan, a cursive calligrapher who was slightly later than Zhang Zhi, wrote "Cursive Script Shi". He described the cursive script as: "The shape is like a continuous chain of beads, never separated", "The last stroke is closed, the remaining knots are tangled", "The head is not hanging down", and "The timing is subtle and subtle" , temporarily follow Yi?'s description, it can be seen that the cursive writing style in the late Han Dynasty was smooth and no longer rigidly adhered to the rules. There are no clear divisions in the evolution of calligraphy styles. To say that Jincao arose from Zhang Zhi is to look at the germination of the new style; to say that Jincao arose from Er Wang is to focus on the formation of typical styles.
In the Tang Dynasty, cursive script appeared, represented by Zhang Xu and Huai Su, and became an artistic creation that was completely divorced from practicality. Kuang Cao, also known as Da Cao, has unrestrained brushwork and continuous movements, such as Zhang Xu's "Kang Cao" in the Tang Dynasty. "Qianwen Broken Stele", "Four Ways of Ancient Poems", Huai Su Monk's "Autobiography" and so on. Zhang Xu is known as the "Sage of Grass" in history. The words in Sun Guoting's "Book Book" are distinct and not connected, but the writing style is lively and elegant. "Dacao" and "Xiaocao" are relatively symmetrical. Dacao is purely made of grass and is difficult to identify. Zhang Xu and Huaisu are good at this. Their characters are written in one stroke, with occasional discontinuities, but the blood flow is continuous. Feng Ban's "Buoyin Shu Yao" of the Qing Dynasty said about learning cursive calligraphy: "Learn Xianzhi from small grass, learn from Xizhi from big grass. It is better to learn Huaisu from Zhang Xu than from Kuangcao."
?Huaisu's cursive calligraphy is easy to recognize, the handwriting is thin and visible, and the joints between the words are also clear and easy to write. Zhang Xu's glyphs change a lot, often with a number, and the momentum between the lines is constant and difficult to identify, forming a unique style. Han Yu's "Preface to Gao Xian" mentioned that Zhang Xu's cursive writing is based on "joy, anger, embarrassment, poverty, worry" Sadness, joy, resentment, longing, drunkenness, boredom, and injustice, if they move the heart, must be expressed in cursive script. Therefore, it is difficult to learn from Zhang Xu.