How to appreciate today's Chinese calligraphy is as follows:
1. Recognize shapes. Calligraphy is the art of line images. "Shape" has four elements. If you appreciate the "four elements", you will be ranked first. territory. One is format. The most classic forms of calligraphy are banners, nave, horizontal drapes, plaques, squares, fans, couplets, rulers, hand scrolls, albums, and paintings.
The second is calligraphy. The most common calligraphy styles are seal script, official script, regular script, running script, cursive script, Wei style, Zhangcao, and running cursive script. The third is color. The color of calligraphy is the most attractive combination of white paper, ink characters and red seal. Four is composed. A complete calligraphy work is most commonly composed of text, title, and seal.
2. Appreciating quality, calligraphy is different from writing. Calligraphy must pay attention to "laws" and "legality" can achieve "quality and beauty". There are four "methods". If you get the "four dharma", you will enter the second realm. One is calligraphy. Characters are the foundation of calligraphy. Calligraphy is formed by gathering dots, and the dots should be "balanced and symmetrical, contrasting and harmonious, appropriate in priority, moderate in density, and unified in variety."
The second is brushwork. The most valuable thing about using a pen is that it changes according to the body, is stable and rich; the middle and side (front) are interchanged, and the method comes from the source; the pen is powerful and can penetrate the back of the paper. The third is the rules and regulations. The composition is the "white cloth" of the entire calligraphy work. It emphasizes continuous strokes between words and lines, with smooth pulse and clear rhythm, just like "moving clouds and flowing water".
That is to say, "You can move horses in sparse places, but don't allow ventilation in dense places. If you plan to use white tricks as black, surprises will come out." The fourth is the ink method. There are six colors of ink, namely "thick, light, dry, wet, dry and moist". If we can "bring away the dryness and moisten it, and turn the thickness into dryness", we can achieve the state of "silent and joyous harmony", "colorful expression", "spraying the pen to create a heartfelt song, and using the ink to talk and laugh".
3. Express feelings, "The book is like Ye, like his learning, like his talent, like his ambition. In short, it is just like the person" (Liu Xizai's words). The purpose of calligraphy is to "express feelings". The highest realm of calligraphy art is the human spirit, an abstract embodiment and expression of human temperament.