Calligraphy with a clear meaning is to shape the image of calligraphy by considering strokes, writing methods and layout according to the content meaning, and integrating artistic creation techniques such as "poetry, painting, dance and song" and emotional stroke elements. Content determines form, image, thought and emotion are integrated, and form (beauty) and content (beauty) are unified, which highly expresses the image, ideology and aesthetic significance of calligraphy art. Traditional calligraphy is improvised by calligraphers according to their own writing style. There are often conflicts between form and content, such as writing fresh and beautiful poems in solemn style, writing frontier poems in handsome and delicate European style, and writing solemn and serious ci poems in wild grass. However, traditional calligraphers believe that calligraphy pays attention to strokes, writing methods and layout, and the written words are the content carriers of calligraphy, and the unity of form and content is not considered by calligraphy. Zheng Zhiming believes that calligraphy can only be called art if the form (beauty) and content (beauty) are unified, and it can show the artistic conception and charm of calligraphy. Otherwise, it belongs to ordinary writing, let alone the artistic conception and charm of calligraphy. Of course, such writing (writing) cannot be called art.
In fact, Zhi Ming's calligraphy is based on traditional calligraphy, but it is more demanding than traditional calligraphy. Stroke, writing style and layout are all determined according to the content, and even the size of the words written in the content is determined according to the meaning of the content. Therefore, meaningful calligraphy works are indeed far higher than traditional calligraphy works in many aspects, such as artistic taste, ideological implication, image artistic conception, emotional aesthetics and so on. Zheng Zhiming believes that the unity of form (beauty) and content (beauty) is the basic requirement of artistic characteristics, and calligraphy as an art is no exception. We couldn't do it before because calligraphy was still immature. However, today, when the style and style of calligraphy have basically taken shape, it is time for us to unify the form (beauty) and content (beauty) of calligraphy, which conforms to the development law of China's calligraphy and is also the only way for the development of China's calligraphy.