Cloth white, a calligraphy term, refers to the arrangement of Chinese characters and the blank relationship between Chinese characters and lines. The stippling and blank space of characters are simple and short, and the structure is large, dense and correct. When writing, we should be flexible and properly laid out, which can make the artistic effect of staggered coordination between words. The arrangement between the lines of the whole work is also called "white cloth".
Painting must use white, which is also very important and complicated in calligraphy. There is a word in white, a line in white, and a white between the lines-that is, the whole picture of white.
This is the spirit of this word. A slight mistake will affect the whole picture, which is especially difficult to hide than painting. Wang Xizhi said that losing a little bit is like beautiful eyes; Losing a brother is like a strong man breaking an arm. Therefore, painting with white cloth in calligraphy is more difficult than painting. This is divided into three points.
Jiang Ji said that the structure is like this: a word has two straight paintings, and the two straight paintings are opposite. They can be relative, but they can't always be relative. Every word must have a pen for the main, the other for the object, to take care of each other. The main painting is the longest one. He also said that if there are many horizontal paintings, they should be painted separately to avoid similarities.
If you draw more straight, you will draw back in different directions to form a body, which means the same thing. Jiang Kui's Continued Book Spectrum says that one thing is to make it correspond to painting; Two o'clock, I want it to correspond; At three o'clock, you must get up at one o'clock, take a little and answer at one o'clock; At four o'clock, from one o'clock, two o'clock, one o'clock, this is very clear.