1. Active whiteness and passive whiteness. There are certain gaps in Chinese calligraphy, both in terms of overall structure and local relationships. This blank space gives people an ethereal beauty, smooth breathing and space for imagination, thus giving people a unique aesthetic pleasure.
This kind of blankness can be divided into passive unconscious whiteness and active conscious whiteness. For everyone who can write, writing will naturally leave blank spaces. Although this unconscious whiteness may occasionally be childish, it is still far from art. For calligraphers, conscious design and creation of blank spaces are Bai is called "making white" or "clothing white", which is also one of the important characteristics of Chinese calligraphy art.
2. Category of cloth. There are spaces between words, spaces between words, spaces between lines, spaces between text and signature, and spaces on all sides of the paper.
3. Blank area. Whether it is a word or an entire work, the area of ??white is larger than that of black. The qualities presented by the blank area are roundness, openness, sobriety, and stretching; when the blank area is small, it appears cramped, tight, sharp, and depressing. Therefore, the space of small seal script and official script is more rounded, open, stretched, and clear than the space of regular script.
4. Blank shapes. Although the shape of the blank can be arbitrary, in the artistic ideal of Chinese calligraphy, there are still rules for the shape of the blank. Taking the space within the characters of the official script as an example, the seal script mainly uses circular spaces, the official script mainly uses square spaces, and the regular script mainly uses triangular spaces. Different from the relatively monotonous white space of the main script, the white space of the running and cursive script is much richer.