Calligraphers can get married because they have basic qualities that ordinary people can't reach. These basic qualities are the basic standards that an excellent calligrapher should possess. It can be summarized as 10: knowledge, temperament, ability, inheritance and influence.
Calligraphy is a very skillful art, ever-changing, all in the pen. The quality of written kung fu directly determines the artistic level. The skills mentioned here not only refer to the ability to control brushes, lines and layout through long-term practice, but also refer to the comprehensive aesthetic ability and expressive ability.
Artistic significance
Zhao Mengfu, a great painter and calligrapher in Yuan Dynasty, emphasized that China should draw with calligraphy instead of words. China's paintings and calligraphy are different from those in western countries. However, China's traditional calligraphy and painting have many similarities. Even writing Chinese characters is exactly the same as drawing Chinese paintings and using pens.
China people's writing is exactly the same as the "Four Treasures of the Study" of painting. Scholars often dance first and then write, naturally bringing the brush of calligraphy into painting. Paintings painted on pottery 67,000 years ago in the Neolithic Age, such as fish, frogs, deer, birds, flowers, leaves and dances, are the earliest paintings in China.
The earliest hieroglyphics were small pictures drawn with lines, which later evolved into Chinese characters. It is precisely because both painting and writing use the same tools, mainly lines, that there is a saying that "painting and calligraphy are of the same origin" This makes Chinese painting have a prominent feature: painting poems or inscriptions, so that poems, books and paintings are integrated into an artistic whole, giving people more beautiful enjoyment.
Since the encounter between calligraphy and painting, Chinese painting has undergone fundamental changes, becoming more abstract and profound, and its main representative is literati painting. The beauty of pen and ink's strength, rhythm and clumsiness, as well as its infinite modeling ability and wide range, have been loved by literati since ancient times.