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Yan Zhenqing (709-785 AD) was an outstanding calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. Langya County (now the southeast of Shandong Province) people. He was named Duke Lu in the reign of Emperor Zong, and later he was called Duke.
Chu Suiliang, a beginner in calligraphy, studied under Zhang Xu at the age of 35. Block letters are dignified and dignified, and the momentum is open; The running script is rich and innocent. Change the square into a circle with a pen, abandon the official method and adopt the brushwork of seal grass. The ancient method has changed and created a new style. Yan Shu's achievements and influence in calligraphy are great, which have been circulated for thousands of years. Most of the famous calligraphers after Yan Zhenqing took the beautiful method. His inscriptions include many pagodas, Ma Gu Xian Tan Ji, Li Bei, Yan Bei, Yan Jia Miao Bei and so on. The running script includes "Competing for Seats", and the book traces include "Confessions from Books" and "Manuscripts for Sacrificing Nephews". These vast materials of Yan characters provide convenience for future generations to learn Yan calligraphy.
This learning mode of regular script was edited by Li Yanqin Tablet, the representative work of Yan Ti Shu. The tablet of Yan Liqin was written by Yan Zhenqing at the age of sixty. The stippling of this tablet has its own unique writing method, which will be analyzed in the first chapter of this book. Here, let's briefly introduce the glyph and stippling characteristics of Yan Bei, as well as the essentials of writing this tablet, which is convenient for beginners to learn.
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First, the font features:
Open-minded and dignified, graceful and generous, vigorous and bold, open and open, appropriate density, uniform structure, good at avoiding, full mouth, vertical opposition, generally rectangular, nearly square.
Second, stippling features:
(1) The pen is vigorous and powerful, and the pen hides many fronts, and the pen returns to many fronts. There are fewer prescription pens, more round pens and more oblique angles when drawing horizontally.
(2) stippling pays attention to echo and coherence. In other words, the momentum between the end of the previous stroke and the beginning of the next stroke is coherent.
(3) Two or more strokes of the same stippling in the same word will change; The same radicals meet and are different, which makes them vivid and colorful.
(4) Horizontal painting is light and vertical painting is heavy, but when two vertical paintings coexist, the left vertical painting is often as thick as horizontal painting; The middle and vertical are extremely strong; Hanging needles often write four-fifths strokes and gradually close. Left and right vertical paintings are often opposite, such as "door" and "furniture".
(5) Most of the long horizontal lines move slightly to the upper right corner in an arch shape, and the strokes become thinner, and the pen is closed by stopping the pen. Although the strokes are oblique, they feel flat.
(6) The strokes have the shape of "swallow-tailed silkworm head" ("silkworm head" refers to the round head of a silkworm with an open head; "Dovetail" means that the end of the pen is bifurcated, like the tail of a swallow); Long strokes often form a ladle arc, with light strokes, thick tail and long tail.
(7) The common way to turn a pen is to turn the circle straight down instead of holding a folding pen. Turning pens is mostly outside the circle. Such strokes cannot be written in curved shapes.
(8) The word "mouth" is written in a shape with a wide top and a narrow bottom, and the two sides are basically symmetrical.
(9) The hook method is mostly beak-shaped. The bottom of the "vertical hook" is round, the upper part is straight, the hook is cylindrical, and the inside is straight and the outside is inclined.
(10) There are four points of "Huozi point", some are left and right oblique points, and some are the first left hand. Turn right at three o'clock. Generally, the middle two points are slightly thinner and the left and right two points are thicker.
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The main points of temporary study.
Every word and stroke of "Li Yanqin Monument" is vigorous and powerful, which can be described as a vigorous stroke. When writing, be sure to let your wrists and elbows hang down on the table. The wrist and elbow can be high or low from the table, just sit and write, and the elbow can be one or two centimeters from the desktop. Elbows leave the table and wrists naturally droop. But it should be noted that the body can't bend over and shoulders can't shrug. In short, sit naturally and write comfortably and conveniently.
Wrist and elbow are hung on the desktop, so that you can naturally apply force to the nib when holding the pen. Beginners, hanging their wrists and elbows to practice writing, their hands will tremble, they can't control writing, and the written words will not be satisfactory; But as long as you stick to it for a while, you will get used to it. This is a written basic skill, and you can't relax.
The stippling of "Li Yanqin Cup" starts with a round pen. A round pen should start with a hidden pen tip: the pen tip touches the paper and carries the pen in the opposite direction of stippling, and then the pen tip follows the direction of stippling. In other words, if you want to go down first, you want to go right first. When collecting the pen, the pen tip is sent back to the stippling place along the original road, that is, the pen tip is collected.
There are many kinds of "skimming" in Li Yanqin North, including vertical skimming (such as "moon" and "use"), oblique skimming (such as "big" and "human") and flat skimming (such as "heavy" and "thousand"), all of which require wrist strength.
Li Yanqin Bay's stippling, from pressing to lifting, from mentioning pressing, is very natural, with almost no abrupt ups and downs, and even "folding" is written in a "dark" way.
To practice painting well, you should also take care of your pen. To avoid using a thin pen, you must pay more attention to practicing returning to the front to collect the pen. Even forward strokes such as "skimming", "pressing" and "lifting" must return to the front in the air as long as they do not need to echo the next stroke. Never "float" out of control.
Yan Zi's stippling is strong and robust, and quite vigorous. If we only emphasize its thick side and write it dully and bloated, it will damage the characteristics of Yan characters.
As long as you master the brushwork of Yan style, you will know how to write the word' thing'. I hope I can help you!