It is the art of writing Chinese characters. This includes: Chinese characters, writing and art, which are also the basic characteristics of calligraphy.
Chinese characters are square characters, which are composed of basic strokes such as dot, horizontal, vertical, left and right. These basic strokes have formal beauty. The ancients said, "It's a bit like a peach, a bit like a knife."
Because different strokes or lines can show different aesthetic symbols, or they are as vigorous as a withered vine, or as elastic as a crossbow, or as flexible as colored silk dancing, or as strong as iron-painted silver hooks, the forms of calligraphy strokes and lines are diverse.
The modeling of Chinese characters has the theory of "six characters", that is, pictographic characters, knowing characters, referring characters, pictophonetic characters, borrowing characters, transferring characters and so on. Early Oracle Bone Inscriptions was an early hieroglyphic, and later a large number of pictophonetic characters were added. Such as "rivers, rivers, lakes and seas" with water beside them. So the original shape of Chinese characters is related to nature.
The so-called "painting and calligraphy are of the same origin" means that China's calligraphy and painting are of the same origin, and the early Oracle Bone Inscriptions and bronze inscriptions, like a painting, have distinct image beauty. In calligraphy, we call it "modeling beauty".
The stroke combination of Chinese characters is more like a painting.
Secondly, calligraphy as an art. Must have the basic characteristics of art: skill and emotion.
Skills:
Chinese painting: line drawing, composition, etc.
Western painting: there are color method, perspective proportional relationship, light and shadow expression, stippling method, daubing method and so on.
Calligraphy: Different fonts, different stroke lines and different shapes have different performances. The center shows a round line, the side shows a zigzag strip line, the fast pen shows dry pen and flying white, and the slow pen shows dignified and sincere brushwork.
These techniques directly determine the expression of formal beauty in calligraphy works.
Emotional:
Prose, poetry and novels of literary works are also written to praise, record, attack or feel some special feelings, such as some people and things.
Calligraphy also has lyric function, but it mainly expresses some praise, praise and emotion with the help of poems, essays and other styles with short words in literary works.
Therefore, the creation of calligraphy first depends on the lyricism of the text content.
Creative writing:
Calligraphy writing is not used for communication, but for displaying art, so formal beauty is the first element of calligraphy writing.
After understanding the three elements, we know that calligraphy uses Chinese characters as the carrier to write artistic fonts. On the basis of mastering the basic techniques, we can understand the meaning of Chinese characters and write beautiful fonts with emotion.
Calligraphy and painting have the same principle, and they are both comprehensive arts with poems, essays and aphorisms of China literature as carriers, praising the content of truth, goodness and beauty and the external image.
It is an art that integrates literature, philosophy, philology, painting, social customs and aesthetics.
People have the quintessence of the Chinese nation, which is the art that best represents China culture.