Select the appropriate brush:
There are many kinds of brushes. When choosing a pen tip, you should choose an appropriate length, because the pen tip is too long to master, but a long pen tip can hold a lot of ink, and a long pen tip can ensure enough ink. On the contrary, the short pen tip is suitable for writing regular script and easy to master.
Choose the right paper:
For beginners, it's good to use fringed paper and meta-book paper first, and then use Xuan paper after a certain achievement.
Wool edge paper is bamboo paper produced in Jiangxi Province. Delicate, thin and soft, light yellow, water-resistant, good water absorption. It is not only suitable for writing, but also for printing ancient books. Wool edge paper produced in Sichuan can be divided into two categories: one is hand-raw, soft, thick and delicate, yellowish in color, with the same feel on both sides, and hand-made with tender bamboo pulp. Moderate water absorption, writing feel is quite good, the majority of calligraphy lovers are very fond of it, and it is an affordable variety for practicing calligraphy.
Yuan Shu paper is a kind of bamboo paper. It was called Red Pavilion Paper in ancient times. Taking tender bamboo as raw material, hand-made writing paper with brush. Location: Fuyang City. It is called Xie Gong Paper or Xie Gong Note. Its characteristics are white and flexible, slightly fragrant with bamboo, soluble in water, impervious to ink, and not moth-eaten or discolored after long-term storage. In ancient times, it was used for painting and calligraphy, writing official documents and making books.
Xuan paper is divided into raw Xuan, semi-cooked Xuan and cooked Xuan. Shengxuan has strong water absorption and hydrophilicity, and it is easy to produce rich Mo Yun changes. By splashing and accumulating ink, water can be collected and diluted to achieve the artistic effect of water flow. Used for freehand brushwork. Cooked Xuan is coated with alum when it is processed, so the paper is harder than raw Xuan, and its water absorption capacity is weak, and the ink color will not spread when it is used. Therefore, the characteristics make cooked propaganda suitable for meticulous painting rather than ink freehand painting.
Semi-cooked Xuan is also processed from raw Xuan, and its water absorption capacity is between the first two, which is suitable for writing small characters.
The correct way to publish:
To learn calligraphy, we should inherit the experience of our predecessors. First of all, we should choose a template for temporary writing, that is, selecting posts. Choosing a post is to worship the ancients as teachers. The high achievements of China's outstanding calligraphers in past dynasties were also developed on the basis of learning the calligraphy art of predecessors. Through long-term practice, they formed their own set of rules in writing, created their own unique style, and were loved by people, making their works immortal and becoming a model for future generations to learn calligraphy. Post-scholars have mastered their own writing rules, laid a good foundation for forming their own artistic style, and only when they engage in calligraphy can they enter the room. Therefore, it is very important to choose posts. If you choose a post, you must be respectful and learn to use it. This is called "entering the post". Some people are afraid that they can't jump out after learning the image, but there is no need to doubt it. As Ni Sumen said in "On Calligraphy" in the Ming Dynasty: "We must take the ancient masters as the patriarch, have a certain family background, keep a firm foothold, immerse ourselves in it day and night, and make sure that the pen is as simple as a pen, so that people know that it is such a small group, even if they praise me and slander me, I will not be moved." If you chop and change, it will affect the practice of basic skills. When you really master the rules of calligraphy, every word is really "such a small group". At that time, your basic skills will have a certain foundation, and you will also have some understanding and research on the structure and brushwork of calligraphy. Through practice, on the basis of improving the understanding of calligraphy art, we can find more books and posts, study them temporarily, know our own advantages and disadvantages, and improve other literary qualities. Through constant practice and exploration, we can form our own artistic style, which is "paste".
On the basis of selecting posts, we should go through five steps: reading posts, describing posts, copying posts, carrying posts back and creating posts.
The first step is to read the post
We all know the pronunciation of the posted Chinese characters, so we don't need to read them any more. Read what? Read fonts, read structures, read strokes, and analyze the relationship between stroke characteristics and strokes of Chinese characters. For example, when we read the Chinese character "zhong", we should read that a vertical line of "zhong" passes through the middle of "kou", and the word "kou" is slightly flat. The long vertical line in the middle is divided into two sections with equal length by the lower horizontal line of the mouth, and the upper horizontal line of the mouth is divided into two sections with equal length. This is an interpretation of glyphs and structures. Different fonts and strokes have different characteristics.
The second step is tracking. "Tracing red" refers to tracing red, that is, beginners draw printed red copybooks along the handwriting with a brush. "Imitation" refers to copying the post, that is, covering the model words with transparent paper and writing them one by one along the shadow of the words on the paper, which is also called writing imitation.
The third step is to post. It refers to putting the copybook aside and watching the copybook write word by word. This method is helpful to master the brushwork and meaning of Chinese characters, but it is not easy to master the structure of Chinese characters.
The fourth step is to recite the post. Refers to the method of removing the copybook on the basis of copying, recalling the font on the copybook according to your own memory and writing it on paper. This is a key step in practicing calligraphy. Only by carefully examining the words you read and write, can you write accurately. When writing, if you can see the exact font of the Chinese characters to be written on white paper, so that "the words are on the paper and the words are on the chest", it is not a problem to write a good hand.
The fifth step is to post. On the basis of mastering the writing method of the words on the copybook, I learned the writing method of the words not on the copybook by analogy. According to the needs of self-expression, writing a paragraph with center, content and self-contained system is creation.
If you can write a word close to copybook in your daily study and life, your purpose of practicing calligraphy will be achieved.
Practice posture:
When practicing calligraphy, we should pay attention to the posture and method of writing, so as to achieve "head straight, body straight, arms open and feet safe" There are writing postures and methods in general copybooks.