A crash course for beginners in Zanhua lower case

To get started quickly, you need to buy copybooks and practice block letters.

First, buy a copybook and practice block letters, because block letters are the basis of block letters; Keep practicing every day until you can write beautiful block letters; After the practice of block letters, buy a copybook to practice the block letters of hairpin flowers; Keep practicing for about 60 days, and you can successfully write a beautiful little letter. For the practice of small letters, choose a copybook that you think is very beautiful and the ink is clear. Copy word by word accurately, and copy word by word repeatedly.

The fine print should be exquisite, and every stroke should be in place. It doesn't matter if you can't write well at first. Keep writing one or two words every day, and you can write a lot of words over time. In addition to pursuing exquisite strokes, there is also a rigorous structure, striving to be exactly the same as copybooks. From a sentence to a page to the whole article ... so skilled that you know how to write this word without copybook. Even if there is no such word in the copybook, you can spell a word with the radical of the copybook. In this way, you will have a beautiful hand in fine print.

Praise words in lower case:

Zanhua lower case is a kind of regular script, which is famous for its softness. It is said that the blind character was created by Mrs. Wei in Jin Dynasty. Mrs. Wei, whose real name is Wei Shuo, is a famous female calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Wei family is a family specializing in calligraphy from generation to generation, and Mrs. Wei got a good calligraphy enlightenment from childhood. Later, she married Li Moment, the satrap of Ruyin, and her husband Li Moment was good at official script, so Mrs. Wei got her husband's support after marriage and continued to study calligraphy.

Mrs. Wei's teacher is Zhong You and the calligrapher Wang Xizhi. In The Record of Calligraphy, her brushwork is evaluated in Zhong You, and Zhong Wei's method is integrated into one furnace. After learning from Zhong You, Mrs. Wei combined what she had learned with her own understanding and walked out of her own balanced style. In "Drive the Left" presented to the imperial court, her font changed from a flat square of teacher Zhong You to a rectangle, with delicate lines and beautiful words, which broke away from the writing style of official script and became her own.

In Song Dynasty, Chen Si quoted a book review in Xiao Guan, saying that her calligraphy was "like a flower arranging dancer, with low beauty; Another example is the beauty on the stage, the fairy shadow, the red lotus reflecting the water, and the blue marsh floating Xia. " Mrs. Wei put forward the theory of "bones and muscles", saying that calligraphy should be "full of strength and muscles", the bones should be hard and fine for beauty, and the fleshy ones should be "ink pigs". The little hairpin letters she created are exquisite and exquisite, and are very beautiful in the pursuit of Wei and Jin Dynasties, and are deeply loved by boudoir women and many literati.