If you want to write a good word, you must first improve your aesthetic awareness, that is, know what the word length looks like and why it looks good; Secondly, I can write the beautiful shape I want to write with the pen in my hand. This is the ability to control the pen, which is the basic skill of writing. So if you have a certain aesthetic consciousness and basic skills, you will be able to write well. Whether it is to improve aesthetic awareness or to strengthen the training of basic skills, it is required to read more, write more and ponder more at ordinary times, so as to achieve eye-to-eye, hand in hand and heart in heart. There is no shortcut to practicing calligraphy.
So what kind of words are good-looking words? The quality of a word is nothing more than its line and frame structure. For a word, besides a single word, it depends on its layout (that is, composition). Beautiful lines should be clearly explained, strokes should be smooth and free, priorities should be appropriate, beautiful forms and expressions should be displayed, full of vitality, light or heavy, slow or urgent, rigid or soft, and return to nature. And those lines that are unclear, inflexible, hesitant and impermanent are naturally not good-looking; Shelf structure, that is, the stroke collocation of a word, such as length, straightness, placement angle, stroke spacing, thickness (thickness), context and so on. For beginners, before considering changes according to needs and personal habits (personality), it is advisable to be symmetrical and dignified in the structure of the font frame.
Layout, also called "composition", is the arrangement of words. For example, the size, shape, arrangement position and placement angle of words, the reference relationship between up and down, left and right, and so on. As far as brush calligraphy is concerned, we should also consider the change of ink color, which can be ignored in practical hard pen calligraphy. As far as general practical writing is concerned, composition typesetting should be done in two aspects: first, in a row or a column, the center of gravity of each word should be basically on the same straight line; Secondly, the size and shape of words are slightly different. Generally speaking, words with many strokes should be written compactly, lines should be as thin as possible, words with few strokes should be written loosely, and lines with small shapes should be as thick as possible. But in general, words with more strokes are still relatively large, and words with fewer strokes are relatively small. However, although some strokes are short, they can be lengthened or written larger, such as the vertical painting of the word "Zhong", the horizontal painting of the word "An" and the horizontal painting of the word "Ren", which can be changed according to the needs of the collocation of the words before and after. In the composition of regular script, the size distinction of words is not obvious; In the composition of running script, the size difference of words can be very obvious, especially in some cursive scripts. In addition, properly exaggerating the main strokes of individual words in the running script will also have a vivid and beautiful effect on the whole article. For example, in Mao Zedong's calligraphy, the size of the characters varies greatly, and they are strewn at random, magnificent and imposing.