Why do beginners spend a lot of time and energy on regular script? In fact, this involves a question of "skill", which can be said to be the foundation of calligraphy. Without it, it is difficult to enter the realm of Tao. The artistic conception, spirit, interest, charm and grace in calligraphy art can only be brought into full play with skill and skill. There used to be a saying: "A gentleman draws a book, a villain draws a tail." Beginners of calligraphy must be down-to-earth and calm, and then they can disappear and fly into a happy situation. Regular script is the most ideal style to exercise calm kungfu, or it starts from regular script in Tang Dynasty and then overflows into popular style. It is not easy to start with seal script and then apply it to stone, which is based on Tao. The learning model method has at least the following points:
First, regular script has a wide range of practical values. Because regular script is easy to understand, it is solemn. Therefore, all high-profile books, inscriptions on temples and eulogies must be based on regular script to show solemnity, including the copying of important documents, classics, inscriptions on places of interest and so on. As for his ornamental value, a beautiful regular script work is hung in the exhibition.
Second, it can cultivate people's sentiment. In today's society, the pace of life is faster and interpersonal relationships are more complicated. In their spare time, people always want to relax their nerves and adjust the tense atmosphere. Of course, there are many kinds of games, but you may wish to practice calligraphy as an option. It is best to create a more elegant environment, with bright windows and clean desks. There are several ancient posts on the desk, celebrity calligraphy and painting hanging on the wall, making a pot of tea, lighting a cigarette and lighting it again. Just take a copybook and read it. When I see my heart, it doesn't itch. If you want to write a book, just spread a piece of paper and sit still and write a few crosses or dozens of lines. This can make people calm down, not worry about depression, write triumphantly and be elated. This is not the pleasure of life! Writing a book can not only cultivate one's sentiment, but also brew one's knowledge. Calligraphy art is regarded as a trail by the ancients, and it is the last skill for studying and wandering in the future. But it is closely related to literature, poetry, music, painting, dance and even philosophy and aesthetics. If you want to write well, you must dabble in these related sister arts, enhance your aesthetic concept in a subtle way, purify your mind and sublimate your ideals in doing something unconventional. Writing lyrics can also be placed in your arms and soothe your heart. When people are embarrassed, down-and-out, down-and-out, and frustrated, ancient literati express their grandiloquence because of grievances, poets devote themselves to poetry with all kinds of pains, and calligraphers vent their emotions with pen and ink and bathe their spirits in the realm of emptiness and tranquility. Artistic creation should be an activity above utility, regardless of gains and losses. Writing a book is both a game and a pastime. It is not only an elegant thing, but also a nosy thing. If you are too utilitarian, you will pursue the result too much and ignore the process. If you feel too good about yourself and shoulder a sense of historical mission, you will inevitably bring yourself a series of pains in setbacks. Especially in today's society, the commercialization of art has really prompted some people to fidget, be eager for quick success and instant benefit, abandon their actions at the end of the picture, praise their abilities at dusk when writing at school, make bold remarks when they are unprepared for the law, brag about innovation when they are unfamiliar with the rules, talk about their personality when they are unsuccessful, and hope for glory and admiration, thus gaining fame for a while; Relaxation is good for the interests of voice and the times and customs. Therefore, if you learn to be possessed, you will be fascinated by wild foxes. Therefore, the way to learn books should be correct, calm, and regular, so as to lead its spirit, eliminate all distractions and change in this delicate world. Writing words can also help people have a rest. The ancients demanded that before writing a book, you should open your arms and let your feelings follow your inclinations. However, when writing a book, they should listen and pay full attention to the movement of the pen tip on the paper. This is the same as the intention of guarding Dantian in Qigong. A painter's life is full of ink and smoke, which can give people endless fun. Historically, the reason is that they deeply realized this bitterness. So it can be seen that writing books can not only expand their talents and brew their knowledge, but also kill time and support their body and mind, not just fame and fortune.
Third, writing a script can exercise the pen power. As far as the art of calligraphy itself is concerned, "power" is the beauty of * * *, and no matter what style or brushwork, it must be backed by abundant brushwork. For a scholar, it is by no means a simple thing to master and control a soft brush freely on Xuan paper to respond to his heart. It takes a lot of effort and effort to get it. Although "strength" can be divided into rigidity, reality and movement, it must be based on calmness. Pointing and drawing pictures can go deep into the bone marrow and get to the point. Using a pen like a knife, if you carve an element, it is called "hiding bones and grasping tendons, including writing and wrapping", and you can enter the ethereal realm. In fact, brushwork is a comprehensive artistic effect, which is not only related to writing and wrist movements, but also related to the thickness, depth, shape and quality of stippling, Fiona Fang, middle edge, rhythm and gesture of using the pen, and also related to the frame structure of the glyph, and these basic elements can be exercised in modeling. As Liang Yi said in "On Learning", "Learning books must be near the Tang Monument. When it is extremely vigorous and healthy, it belongs to Jin people. Otherwise, it will be written as a weak word. " Seal script is the foundation of the round pen center, official script is the source of Fang Bi's flank, and regular script is used by Fiona Fang, both in the middle and on the side. The ancients wrote books with a perfect spirit, so they became famous. If people today regard it as a trick, smart people refuse to make stupid efforts. Even if the pens are excellent, they can only get into the smart, wandering and thin barriers, and it is difficult to get into the hall.
Fourth, writing a script can cultivate a person's calm, accurate, delicate and perfect stippling skills. Learning books should be based on bone strength and pen as the top priority. Zhao Mengfu's "it is not easy to use a pen through the ages" refers to the basic principle of brushwork, not to the morphological changes of painting. Nothing more than Fiona Fang, mid-range, hidden dew, straight, slippery, fat, stiff, slow and false. Although there are primary and secondary points, they should all be controlled within the scope of "degree" Too square is stiff without rhyme, too round is weak without bone; If you straighten up too quickly with a pen, the meaning will be shallow. If it is too slow, the pen will stagnate and the flesh will freeze. If the pen is too straight, it will be weak, and if it is bent, it will be powerless; Too fat is bloated, too thin is explicit; Too weak is timid, too dull, but what's expensive is that it is commensurate with flesh and blood, combining rigidity with softness, and combining reality with reality. Fiona Fang is wonderful. When writing regular script, it is required that every stippling can be perfect and meticulous, so that its stippling has a round and full three-dimensional sense. In particular, regular script is mainly written by Fang Bi, while Fang Bi's corners, sharp points, folds, hooks, skimming and nitpicking contain the most basic "eight methods of writing through the ages", which is well used and naturally full of energy. This kind of brushwork can only be solved by beginners who write regular script. In fact, I am very opposed to the statement that "calligraphy is the art of lines". In the ancient book theory, the word "line" has never been mentioned. "Point is the shortening of painting, while painting in a broad sense is a rhythmic, turbulent and vital pen shape. If we carefully watch the ancient regular script, there are almost no lines with the same thickness, including light and heavy, Ji Xu. Few strokes are straight and flat. He always strives for straightness in straightness, strives for flatness in injustice, or raises or covers, or faces or backs, and is full of a touching gesture, and all these subtle changes can be vividly expressed in the opening method.
Five, writing a model can cultivate a person's ability to know the common and change. Everything will change when it is unchanged. If you learn, you will have strength. If you learn, you will change. If you learn, you will change. Therefore, if there is no change in form, it will be dull, lifeless, changeable, and chaotic. Learning regular script can not only let us master the most basic font structure, but also let us master the most basic shaping methods. Positive and strange, constant and change are the main links in our study of Kaifa. Beginners should strive for fairness in calligraphy. The so-called fairness means that the strokes are appropriate, the words are symmetrical and the posture is correct. Regular script with strict laws and regulations has these conditions, but advanced Kaifa is more expensive than seeking danger from it and maintaining its relative gravity balance in strange posture. This is the beauty of Kaifa, which is a reasonable and subtle change that will never happen. This is like a person, the basic positions of the five senses are almost the same, but because of the slight differences of the five senses, everyone's face is different, which is the incredible wonder of the creator. The predecessors emphasized that writing a book is not rigid and bizarre, just like being smarter, more harmonious and more expensive than one person. Being clever and juggling is like swallowing needles and cursing water, but it is not as upright as Tathagata Avenue. You can't insist on writing regular script, just like a teacher reading Tianjin and a Zen master dying. It's not vivid at all. Although regular script is in the form of stippling, it can be transformed into temperament. Stippling and stippling should be consistent in brushwork, and have a tendency to expect echoes, so that their blood circulation and brushwork will be full of attention, regular script will be lively, and all changes will be under the control of brushwork.
From the above, the significance of regular script in calligraphy, the deeper one's attainments, the thicker one's skill, the more stamina, the greater the change and the endless feeling. Facts have proved that a calligrapher's basic skills in regular script are poor, even if his handwriting is good and his talent is outstanding, it will be difficult to improve his cursive level in the future. Throughout China's famous calligraphers, almost all of them are proficient in the methods of opening letters, and on this basis, they are naturally considerable.