Xian de Zheng kai calligraphy

Think vertical first, horizontal first, right first, left first, left first. The meaning of the first half of this sentence is to teach you how to write the beginning of a stroke with a round cone. This is a reference to the taste of the official script knife and axe, which makes the words look more heroic. How do you want to be vertical first? Simply put, it is to pause at the beginning of the pen in the vertical direction of the stroke direction, let the nib spread out, and then drag the hair vertebra down along the stroke direction. The same is true when closing the pen. Lift it a little first, and then cut it in the direction of 3 10 degrees (not 90 degrees, because it is not the same as starting and closing a pen).

If you write a pen like this, the beginning of the stroke will be very sharp, which is said to be called broken hairpin. Collecting pens is also refreshing.

The second half of the sentence says that if you want to be right, you should be left first, and if you want to be left, you should be right first. More dogmatic than the first half. It is to make the strokes smooth on both sides when the pen goes to the middle, so that the words appear gentle, neat and correct. In order to achieve this goal, the author is required to write in the opposite direction first, then spread the nib out, and then erect it for a period of time to create a smooth corner for the pen, and finally let the nib spread out smoothly, so that when writing, it is "the nib can always walk with strokes"; When collecting pens, it's basically like this. When you collect the pen, you will leave a bag similar to a goose head.

If you write according to the above statement, you can write clearly, smoothly and neatly. Sure enough, it can help the ancients But this writing action is too troublesome, because it essentially imitates the words written by the short-edged hard-core brush used in the Tang Dynasty with the long-edged soft-headed brush. Learning to be like is not fast; It's fast. Not very similar. So I think, if you don't write Gong Kai, especially Liu Kai, according to the above formula, you should write it with harder wolf hair. This makes it easy to complete fine movements.