This word, which is said to be the most difficult to write on earth, is pronounced "biang", and the second sound is biang biang noodles, a delicacy in Xi'an.
The children who learn hard-pen calligraphy from me all admire this magical word "biang". I occasionally let them write on the small blackboard to see who can write better.
When you can write the word "biang" beautifully, it means that you have a good "feel" for the "structure" of the word.
"Feeling" is a very magical thing. To learn a foreign language, you need to develop a good "language sense"; to learn to play ball, you need to develop a good "ball sense"... So I also used writing as a The feeling is called "word sense".
What is the use of "character sense" for people who learn to write?
It is very useful. There are 3,500 commonly used Chinese characters. It takes a huge amount of time and energy to practice them one by one.
So, we usually follow the method of "strokes - radicals - structure - overall effect" to practice calligraphy. What did you practice? What you practice is actually a "character sense" for writing.
Once you have developed your "character sense", you don't need to learn or practice all Chinese characters at all, and you will still be able to write most Chinese characters well.
"Word sense" can guide us. Even if we write a word that has never been written before, a very rare word, or even a newly created word out of thin air, we can still write it beautifully.
The "feel of writing" in hard-pen calligraphy is mainly reflected in these two points:
1. Uniformity. 2. Balance.
How to understand uniformity?
When writing a word, the arrangement of all its strokes is basically evenly distributed.
If a lot of strokes are crowded together in a certain place, and the strokes in a certain place are very loose, showing a lot of white space, then such words will definitely look ugly.
The word "biang" has more than 60 strokes.
People with good "word sense" have already made a mental prediction of the overall situation from the time they start writing the first few strokes.
How big to write "Xue Baogai", how long to write the word "Yan" below, how to arrange the distance between the horizontal lines, etc. will all proceed naturally according to your own prediction of "evenness" ...
And those who have a poor sense of calligraphy can only "knock" one stroke after another, or one radical after another. After I finished writing, I found that all the parts were written out. Although there were no errors, the combination was messy and ugly.
The trick to achieve "uniformity" is to pay attention to the "distance distribution" and "angle distribution" of strokes.