What are the characteristics of calligraphers?

Ren Zheng is known as "the first person in contemporary running script". In the early 1980s, the country needed a standard running script to standardize the characters used in newspapers and periodicals, and invited tenders from the calligraphy circle. At that time, almost all the running scripts in the calligraphy world were their own works. As a result, experts voted as the first, and Liu Xiaoqing was the second, one vote short. The evaluation of college students is also political first. So his words are still used today. His handwriting is approachable, earnest, meticulous, handsome and decorative. All the combinations are particularly eye-catching. However, the calligraphy and legal circles also criticized his words for being stereotyped, falling into a conventional pattern and becoming a modern style.

Brother Tian's calligraphy, regular script is better than running script and cursive script, and strives for perfection in European regular script. While inheriting the strict rules of European regular script, they also referred to the aesthetic preferences of the times and established their own aesthetic standards and laws. Specifically, Tian's European regular script is quite thin and hard, but not moist enough; Tian Yingzhang's handwriting is warm and colorful, but it is a little weak. It should be pointed out that although the Tian brothers have their own experiences on regular script, they also have misunderstandings. The font is too delicate and charming, too mechanical. Therefore, it is not difficult for many students to write realistic works after a period of practice. When a rule is too elaborate and too mechanical, the calligrapher becomes a machine, and the words written are similar, lacking in personality and charm, and a little more craftsman spirit and vulgarity.

Mr. Lin Sichun's achievements are mainly in the field of hard pen. He was inspired by the ancients writing with branches and sticks. After a long period of study and practice, he mastered the hard pen with an unprocessed pen and learned from the brush calligraphy. In addition, he skillfully used the side pen to press his feet, giving full play to the special function of the pen and creating a pen with a strong charm of brush calligraphy. -Mr. Lin is dead, so it's better not to criticize here.