1, about the definition of strokes
Stroke usually refers to uninterrupted points and lines that make up various shapes of Chinese characters, such as horizontal (1), vertical (2), left (3) and left (4). ), fold (? ), etc. , which is the smallest Lian Bi unit of Chinese character glyphs. Stroke sometimes refers to the number of strokes, such as the Chinese character stroke index in front of a word book.
When expressing these two meanings, "strokes" can also be used as "strokes", but now it is standardized as "strokes". In addition, strokes also refer to pictures with pen-and-ink strokes, usually with ancient strokes. Refers to the points, horizontal lines, straight lines, hooks, strokes and strokes that constitute Chinese characters, which are not commonly used or used at present.
There are eight basic strokes in traditional Chinese characters, namely, "dot", "horizontal", "vertical", "left-handed" and "left-handed" ), mention (? ), fold (? ) and "tick (cut)" are also called "eight-character method".
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.
2. The principle of "alignment" in hard pen calligraphy.
Alignment is an important principle of Chinese character configuration law, and it is also one of the standards of whether Chinese character writing is beautiful or not. Its main purpose is to show the "stability" of Chinese characters. Point verticality, point hook and point alignment are important cases of alignment.
The calligraphy skills of point-to-vertical alignment mainly include single characters, as well as wide prefix, household prefix, vertical prefix and baogaitou. A special case is "Qi, * * *, only", with two vertical points above and two vertical points below, and two vertical points and two vertical points are also aligned respectively.
The calligraphy skill of point hook alignment is that the pointing hooks are distributed up and down, and only alignment can ensure that the whole word does not become warped. When applying point-by-point alignment calligraphy technique, we should pay attention to the correspondence and alignment of upper and lower points. When using the calligraphy skills of multi-stroke alignment such as point vertical hook, it is necessary to pay attention to the alignment relationship of multi-points, point vertical hook and point hook on the central axis.