1. About the choice of pen: For beginners, you should use a double-headed brush with a tip of three or four centimeters. Wet the pen with water before each use, then use a paper towel to dry it to nine minutes, and then dip it in ink. You'd better wash your pen after each exercise. Because ink is corrosive. Then hung and air-dried.
According to the hardness and softness of hair, brushes can be roughly divided into three categories: hard brush, soft brush and double brush. Only a brush is more vigorous, and the words written are more vigorous, such as the pen of a wolf; Soft brush is soft, and the words written are rich, such as sheep hair brush; Doubled both brush's pen, on the other hand, is a pen that combines rigidity and softness, such as seven sons and three yang.
When choosing a pen, we should pay attention to four points: "sharp, neat, round and healthy": the nib should be "sharp"; Press "Qi" when opening; The pen belly should be full and "round"; The bristles are very healthy and elastic. Use cold water to send pens, and wash them after use. All the pens bought are glued. Take a cup of warm water, soak it for a day and melt naturally.
2. About ink selection: Beginners don't need ink sticks to grind themselves, just buy ink directly, and practice is completely enough.
Fine ink, light gum, it is best to use light smoke. The ink is black, shiny and slightly fragrant. Clean water should be used when grinding ink, and the main point of action is to "press hard and move lightly" in order to make the ink color moderate. Ink is ground and loses its luster after a night. As for the ink sold by modern merchants, try using paper when choosing. If it is light on the top and thick on the bottom, it is not allowed to buy it.
3. About paper selection: For beginners, it is appropriate to choose Jiugongge thick paper. If you don't have a grid, fold your own prints, and the width is about seven centimeters.
Paper can be roughly divided into two categories: strong ink absorption and weak ink absorption. Xuan paper, cotton paper and wool paper have moderate ink absorption and are suitable for writing; As for smooth paper, it is not easy to absorb ink, and it is not easy for beginners to control it, which will hurt the pen and should be avoided. Paper is afraid of wrinkling, and wrinkling is subject to incomplete ink; I'm afraid of the tide, too. When the tide comes, the handwriting will be scattered. I need to wrap it in another layer of paper and put it in a dry place.
4. About choosing inkstone: For beginners, you can take a small porcelain plate as a substitute for inkstone. The advantage of ceramics is that it is easy to clean, and it is extremely convenient to wash with tap water and touch with paper towels after use.
The inkstone is top grade, with delicate texture and delicate ink color. Wash the inkstone immediately after use, so as not to accumulate Su Mo and damage the nib.
5. About selecting stickers: Calligraphy practice should start from Tang Kai, go against the times, and then practice going south, Beibei, Han Li, Qin Zhuan, etc. Decide which calligraphy style you like, European style, Yan style or Chu style Zhao Ti, as a model for learning. Because regular script is neat and tidy, it is easy to be stiff and inflexible, lacking good manners, and regular script is smart, which can make up for the rigidity of regular script. However, it is easy to float lightly when practicing regular script, and the brushwork can't enter the paper.
Representative works of regular script include Yan Zhenqing's Pagoda and Oriental Painting Praise Monument, Liu Gongquan's Mysterious Pagoda, Shence Army Monument and Ouyang Xu's Jiucheng Palace.
Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting, a masterpiece of running script in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, is known as "the best running script in the world". Tang Yan Zhenqing's book "Sacrificing a Nephew" is very bold, and the ancients rated it as "the second running script in the world". Su Shi's Huangzhou Cold Food Sticker is called "the third running script in the world".
The famous representative work in the running script is Lushan Temple Monument written by Li Yong in Tang Dynasty, which is fluent and rich. There are Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei and Cai Xiang in the Song Dynasty, Zhao Mengfu, Xian Yushu and Kang Lilong in the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yunming, Wen Zhiming, Dong Qichang and Wang Duo in the Ming Dynasty, and those in the Qing Dynasty. They are all good at running script or cursive script, and many works have been handed down from generation to generation.
The representative works of cursive script are Wang Xizhi's Seventeen Articles and Huai Su's Thousand-character Writing.
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Steps to learn calligraphy:
1, tracking
Pen-holding posture: five-finger pen-holding method: first, hold the thumb and middle finger tightly, and the position vacated by the palm should be like a cube of about 4 cm, and then naturally put the ring finger and little finger behind the brush to make the body straight and keep the arm at a proper distance from the table.
Common methods: Cover the manuscript with thin paper (silk) and write or draw as it is. Painting in red is one of the methods.
2. Temporary writing
The learner writes on another piece of paper as accurately as possible against the original calligraphy post.
Liu Xiangdong, a primary school teacher in Dalian, put forward the basic principles of temporary writing of Chinese characters, and wrote the book "Secrets of Temporary Writing of Chinese Characters", which solved the fundamental problem of temporary writing of Chinese characters. This method is not only suitable for the temporary writing of Chinese characters, but also suitable for the temporary writing of all characters in the world. The book The Secret of Writing Chinese Characters is a milestone in the history of China's calligraphy.
Step 3 go back to the front
After writing it many times, I wrote it again according to the original picture left in my mind.
Step 4 create
According to the constantly revised writing habits and styles, re-select writing content and expression style, and write new works.
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