1. Knot, also known as knot and frame, is the structural form of font, that is, the arrangement of stippling in each word. How to tie the knot will directly affect the aesthetic level of the characters, so Zhao Ziang said: It also needs labor to tie the knot for the characters. "Structure is produced with a pen, that is, gestures. We talked about brushwork in the previous article, and we know it. The main aspects of using a pen are drawing and writing.
2. Therefore, how to connect, match and combine different forms of stippling is closely related to the pen. Bao clearly pointed out that "writing is based on pen", and Cai Yong in the Eastern Han Dynasty expounded the relationship between writing and writing. He said: "When writing and writing, the upper cover is the lower part, and the lower part is the upper part, so that the feelings and the turns set each other off, and there is no sneaking back."
3. It is the contrasting gesture of "hand-to-hand" between stippling and painting that makes the structure have the distinctive personality characteristics of calligraphers. If your handwriting is rigid, you don't pay attention to the brushwork, or even "recite", even if you carefully design it, the written words will appear rigid, unprepared and unpretentious. So we can say: different pens.
4. There will be different forms of stippling (such as chubby, Fiona Fang, hidden, straight, rigid and soft, etc.). ), it will form and produce different styles and shapes of glyph structures. For example, the founder's carving and inspiration of European style, elegant and dignified style is proof. Because calligraphers have different habits of writing each point, the stroke length will be different.
5. The stroke spacing is different, and the font density is different, resulting in complex changes in structure and appearance and different postures. So after we talked about using a pen in the previous article, we should seriously talk about structural problems. In the Qing Dynasty, Feng Ban said in "A Brief Introduction to Blunt Poems": "Calligraphy has no other secrets, only pens and ears."
6. He also said: "The pen is trying its best, but it must be measured; The knot is true, but it must be uniform. " Explain that pen and structure are the key to writing well. Calligraphers in past dynasties have always attached great importance to the structure, such as Ou Yangxun's "36 laws", Mason Lee's "84 laws and big characters structure" in Ming Dynasty and Huang Ziyuan's "92 laws and regular script structure" in Qing Dynasty.
7. For beginners, you can master some rules of font structure. Let's not talk about these familiar rules today. We should understand that art is never static, so is calligraphy, especially cursive script, which has more structural changes. Therefore, the basic method for us to talk about structure is to find things with the same rules from the ever-changing structure to guide our calligraphy practice.