The skill of this Chinese character is very rich, and there are many nutrients worth absorbing and learning. The whole word is tight left and loose right, dense left and sparse right, high left and low right. The four people's paintings are different in shape, thickness and opening and closing, which is very wonderful.
Speaking of Preface to Lanting, I have to remind you that Preface to Lanting reminds us of the classic paradigm of signing a contract. Many people will write the year when they sign. In fact, this is not standardized. According to the argument in Preface to Lanting, it can be written as "Guimao Year is 2023 years old" or Guimao Spring in the Year of Rabbit.
Let's look at the complete word Guimao written by Wang Xizhi. These two words are in the preface of Ji Wang's Victory in Education. You can also look them up and practice them.
This letter is written high on the left and low on the right, with two strokes left and right. The first stroke on the left is thick, showing the strength on the left, and the second stroke on the right is thick and strong.
Running script is a kind of calligraphy, which is divided into running script and running script. It is developed and originated on the basis of regular script, and it is a font between regular script and cursive script, which is produced to make up for the slow writing speed of regular script and the illegibility of cursive script. "Go" means "go", so it is not as scribbled as cursive script, nor as straight as regular script.
Whether it is cursive or cursive in essence. Those with more patterns than grass patterns are called "running patterns", and those with more grass patterns are called "running grass". Running script is both practical and artistic, and regular script is a literal symbol, which is practical and skillful; Comparatively speaking, cursive script is highly artistic, but its practicality is relatively insufficient.
The origin of writing:
Running script appeared at the same time as eight-part essay, and its form was very close to eight-part essay and later official script. This is equivalent to changing cursive script from official script and deriving other branches from "regular characters". In addition to official script, the regular script in Huan Ling Chao is followed by the eight-point method, so people think that running script is another branch of the eight-point method.
In fact, it is the same as other calligraphy styles. It was originally founded as a general mass writer. As long as it is written in other calligraphy, it becomes a running script without official style. It can be seen everywhere in bamboo slips unearthed at the end of Han Dynasty. At the end of Han dynasty, running script was not widely used. It was not until the appearance of Wang Xizhi in Jin Dynasty that it became popular.