There are eight kinds of pointillism in regular script: a little, horizontal, vertical, skimming, holding, picking, hooking and folding. Among them, the most famous eight methods of "Yong" are developed from the regular script. It is both a writing method and a writing method. All the strokes of regular script are summarized in the eight methods.
Compared with seal script and official script, stippling is the best, and each stippling has its own standard requirements. Regular script is composed of these eight kinds of stippling Chinese characters, which are drawn bit by bit, unable to express their intentions, and have a "method" to follow. Regular script is generally thin in horizontal drawing, thick in vertical drawing, horizontal and vertical. Skimming, pressing, or tapering or thickening, the pen is gradually raised at the pen-collecting place, and the pen is gradually laid out when pressing, and then gradually raised. Hook painting is a special turning point, and after stopping, it takes the lead. For example, Ou Yangxun's Eight Tactics in the early Tang Dynasty summarized eight basic forms of stippling in regular script.
(2) The regular script is square
Although there are few Chinese characters with strict square structure, most of them pursue square and regular, which makes the flat font of regular script and official script obviously different. It is the basic feature of regular script structure to stress the change of font in founder, symmetry and regularity.
structural techniques
The knot characters of regular script are basically symmetrical and coordinated, and we should take the potential according to the characters, form according to the characters, have a stable center of gravity, balance and coordinate all parts, and pursue the vivid beauty of symmetry in the middle of the rules. Sun Guoting's "Book Spectrum" says: "Beginners learn distribution, but seek justice; Knowing that justice is right, we must pursue danger; It can not only avoid danger, but also restore justice. "
(3) Regular composition
Regular script is generally in vertical rows and horizontal columns, or sparse (such as Ou Yangxun's" Jiucheng Palace Ritual Spring Inscription ") or dense (such as Yan Zhenqing's" Yan Qin Li Bei "). The font of regular script is square, and the font size is generally not much different, so the layout of regular script also pursues the beauty of neatness, unity and symmetry.
The rules of regular script should not only pay attention to regularity, but also pursue harmony. Knot all the paintings into one word, saying knot; The combination of all the characters is the layout. Layout or composition is the core of calligraphy art creation, which has its own advantages and ingenuity. For example, Confucius Temple Monument, a masterpiece of regular script, was written by Yu Shinan, a master of regular script in the early Tang Dynasty. His pen is round and handsome, soft on the outside and rigid on the inside. His words are solemn and solemn, and the whole book is relaxed, which seems to be a leisurely stroll, and it is a school of beautiful and elegant and the weather.