What are more strokes and less strokes?

When the calligraphy circle emphasizes "single character" or overall layout, it sometimes deliberately treats it with "more strokes" and "less paintings" to achieve a certain effect, which is called "filling blank" and "saving simplicity", which is beyond reproach. But when people (not calligraphers, of course) comment that a word is "wrongly written", calligraphers have a set of "theoretical" excuses.

for example, the word "chapter" in "article" extends the last vertical from "stand", which has the saying that "article is universal"; The word "wealth" is written as "noble", and there is a dot on the head of the treasure cover. It means "wealth without a head", which means that you will have no end to wealth. Add a little more to the word "spirit" and talk about "the pen of god"; The word "person" is added to the painting, adding "three strokes" to say that "there must be a teacher in a threesome". If the former is "praising others", there is still "affection" that can be "original", then the latter is "self-deception" As a student, you can't imitate at will!

For another example, there is a withered willow tree in the temple in Qufu, Shandong Province. The inscription reads "Zi Gong planted a letter by hand", and the word "plant" is missing one line, which means that there are 7 Confucius disciples and Zi Gong is absent. It is said that when Confucius lived to be 84 years old (wrong, Confucius (551-479 BC) was 72 years old, he suddenly learned that Zi Zhongyou had died in a national disaster in Wei, and he was deeply saddened. The following year (479 BC), in February of the summer calendar, Confucius fell ill for seven days and died. In fact, at the age of 73, when Xian died, disciple Zi Gong "traveled south" to other countries, and the bad news came. He went to Lu to attend the funeral day and night, and on the way, he broke his willows with crutches. However, when she arrived, Master was buried, holding a willow stick in her hand, kneeling and wailing for three days, and tears poured down her face. This emotion moved the "land god" and sealed the world as "an unintentional willow stick". This tree was the willow stick planted by Zigong with tears in the past. The story of the tour guide was naturally interpreted well, but the funeral custom of the dutiful son "wearing a hemp Dai Xiao", "leaning on a funeral stick" and "not having a haircut for a hundred days" has been passed down to this day.