To learn official script, we should choose some works with mature style, clear strokes, standardized structure and stable style. This kind of work has regular structure and strokes, which can be better understood and introduced faster, and is suitable for beginners to learn. It will be much easier to learn such copybooks and practice other official scripts.
There are many such copybooks in official script. For example, the official script with beautiful style includes: Cao Quanbei, the tablet of filial son after the dynasty; Founder simple: Zhang Qianbei, Xianyu Huang Bei; Elegant styles are: Ritual and Music Monument, Shi Chenbei Monument and Yiying Monument; Cliff stone carvings include: Shimen Fu, Xihuang Fu, etc.
These copybooks are worth learning whether they are beginners or later as the main posts. Beginners can choose works with relatively straight styles, such as One Shadow Cup, Cao Quanbei, and Rich Cup.
Second, how to choose the copybook of the beginner's calligraphy official script?
Lishu evolved from ancient Chinese characters, with different styles and faces, especially bamboo slips and silk books unearthed in recent decades, with rich and colorful faces. This is also one of the reasons why many beginners struggle to choose posts. How to learn official script? It can be considered from three aspects.
1, stick to the law.
Taking the method is not chasing the earliest and oldest things. It is not only a principle of learning, but also a goal and realm. This is also the reason why the official script mostly takes the inscriptions in the Eastern Han Dynasty as the learning model, rather than the official script on bamboo slips as the starting copybook. The official script of the Eastern Han Dynasty has the most comprehensive laws and mature style, which is suitable for beginners. Confucius Temple, Shi Chenbei, Yiying Monument and Liyue Monument; Cao Quanbei, Zhang Qianbei, Huashan Monument, Longshan Ode, Shimen Ode, etc. , is everyone's favorite, but also the most studied.
Step 2 respect your preferences
It is not unprincipled to choose posts according to one's own preferences. As the saying goes, just like them. Only if you like them can you inspire your fighting spirit and confidence and be willing to stick to it.
Han bamboo slips are elegant, Xiping stone sutra is beautiful and vigorous, dignified and neat, Yi Ying is elegant and fluent, ritual vessels are absolutely interesting, Cao Quan is beautiful and elegant, Zhang Qian is simple and calm, Huashan is vigorous, Longshan has a healthy ancient rhyme, Fang Heng monument is plump and square, Shimen ode is rich and interesting, and cliff stone carvings are natural and natural.
3. Adjust copybooks in time
After years of study, I have mastered the copybooks of the primary election, and I can re-select the copybooks, which are similar in style or far from each other. This is not because the mountain is higher than others, but to better broaden the horizons of official script, enrich the brushwork of official script, lay a good foundation for creation, and then gradually form its own official script style.