How to write brush strokes to look good?

How to write good-looking brush calligraphy involves the forms of stippling, writing, calligraphy, composition layout, ink color change, pen power, style aesthetics, pen and ink interest and so on. Generally speaking, "good-looking" brush calligraphy is not very strong in personality style and is easily accepted by the public. It is written like this:

1, try to write the word "wide and comfortable" without being too restrained, which is reflected in stretching and opening. Such as "people, heaven, gold, too" and other words;

2. Stretch the knot, but don't be too loose, but also "tighten the middle palace", such as the word "light, flower, me" in the lower part of the indulgence, the upper part of the tension, and the word "east" in order to achieve harmony and unity;

3. Brush writing is "sparse and dense", not as rigid as calligraphy. Some words with strong density contrast, such as "thing and degree", have a relatively uniform density, while "being and seeing" have a relatively high density, and the next strategy is sparse;

4, the strokes of the running script should be as smooth as possible, but it should be noted that the pen does not pick up the pen, and it must be disconnected, so that it has a taste;

5. All parts of the combined Chinese characters should be written in harmony and avoid each other. Sometimes, some words are allowed to avoid, leaving room for others to stretch, or interspersed with each other to form a harmonious and unified whole. For example, the left part of the words "virtual", "bottle" and "bottle" moves up, so that the right part extends to the left. The upper, middle and lower parts of the word "spirit" are long or short, and they are telescopic and tacit.

The above example comes from Wen Zhiming, a calligrapher in the Ming Dynasty. He took the Preface to the Sacred Religion from Wang Xizhi, and it was written like jade, which was really beautiful.