? Stroke (bǐ huà) usually refers to points and lines of various shapes that make up Chinese characters, such as horizontal (1), vertical (2), left (3), point (3), fold (3) and so on. It is the smallest Lian Bi unit of Chinese characters.
There are eight basic strokes in traditional Chinese characters, namely "point (个), horizontal (个), vertical (个), left (个), lifting, folding (个) and being hooked (个).
The fonts of Chinese characters are divided into handwriting and printing. Handwriting refers to the handwritten form of characters, which is flexible and easy to express personal style. There are three kinds of calligraphy in modern China: regular script, cursive script and running script. Printing refers to the printing form of characters. There are four types of modern Chinese characters: Song Style, Imitation Song Style, Regular Style and Black Style, among which Song Style and Regular Style are the most commonly used.
The eight strokes of the word "Yong" is a way to explain the use of pens in block letters, so it is called because it takes the eight strokes of the word "Yong" as an example. Its source is the old three theories: (1) Zhang Xu said, see Mo Chi; (2) the monk bravely said, see "jinghua bookstore"; (3) Cai Yong, Wang Xizhi said, Li See Anxue Puguang eight methods. Its legal name is "side", and the side front must be steep, which is enough to close the front; Cross-painting is "fun", so you should drop the paper against the front and rush back slowly, not even with the front; A straight pen is "anger", not too straight. If it is too straight, it will be stiff and weak, so you should see the curve in the straight; The hook is "T √ (t √)", so you should stay in front and start writing. Suddenly lifting the hook, the force is concentrated on the nib; Yang Heng is a "strategy", and its strength lies in the end of the painting. Long left as "lüè", draw straight with a pen. Fat in front, push. If you don't collect it, it's easy to make the mistake of drifting unsteadily; Skimming is "pecking" and writing on the left is fast and sharp; Hold a pen like "zhé". When you put pen to paper, you should gently face the front, fold the front and spread it out slowly. Until the end, it is important to be subtle. Later generations also extended the word "eight methods" as a synonym for "calligraphy".