There are three main forms of calligraphy. It is strokes, knots and composition, which combines the beauty of calligraphy.
Of these three forms, strokes are the most basic, because words and lines are composed of strokes. Words and lines are the trajectory and arrangement of stippling. Many formal beauty elements in stippling, such as strength, movement, rhythm, change and harmony, are also formal beauty elements in words and lines. Of course, in these three forms, the proportion of these elements is different.
Stroke emphasizes brushwork. There are many ways to express pen power, two of which are centering and lifting.
Lifting is to lift the pen up gently and forcefully; To press is to press down hard. Pen-lifting can make lines appear delicate, powerful and smooth; Press the pen to make the ten lines thick and powerful. Therefore, boosting pressure is an important means to create a sense of strength and rhythm in calligraphy.
When writing, you have to raise your pen up or down on time, and you have to deal with another pair of different ways of exerting power: walking and staying, just like a basketball player running with the ball while patting it. This skill needs hard practice.
The frequency of lifting and pressing changes of various books is different.
Crazy cursive script pursues quick strokes, and the pressure has not changed much. Grass and running script have changed a lot. There are many changes in the rise and fall of official script, especially in writing, which should show the horizontal painting of silkworm head and goose tail and the right lower knife method. Regular script is the most commonly used. However, there is almost no use of lifting pressure in seal script.
Lifting pressure in calligraphy
Modern calligrapher Shen pointed out that pressing with a pen is just like walking, with the left foot down and the right foot up and down, in a cycle. In the process of using the pen, the fine strokes are lifted upward, so that the pen leaves the paper or is slightly lifted without leaving the paper.
Pressing is the action of pressing the pen down. The purpose of pressing is to spread the pen and make the stippling thicker. Press before writing, and then press before receiving the pen. You have to press it if you want to. The turning point is completed by boosting pressure, so boosting pressure is closely related.
Press it again to call a pause, press it again to call a squat, and press it again to call a stop, as shown in the figure. The relationship between lifting and pressure is that there is pressure in lifting, lifting in pressing, lifting in pressing and lifting in pressing.