Calligraphy in a narrow sense refers to the methods and laws of writing Chinese characters with a brush. Including writing, calligraphy, stippling, structure, layout (distribution, lines, composition) and so on.
For example, the pen refers to the palm and the five fingers are Qi Li; The pen carrying center is unfolded; Stippling is the same as a pen; The structure is shaped by words and echoes each other; The distribution is intricate, the density is appropriate, and the virtual and the real are born together, and the whole chapter is full of gas fields; Every word is ancient for literacy, and every word is big and small, and high is not as good as low.
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There are five types of calligraphy: regular script, seal script, running script, cursive script and official script.
1 in regular script
Regular script is also called regular script. It is a kind of calligraphy with the longest development time in China. Regular script is square and strokes are straight. There are four famous calligraphers: Ou Yangxun in Tang Dynasty, Yan Zhenqing in Tang Dynasty, Liu Gongquan in Tang Dynasty and Zhao Mengfu in Yuan Dynasty.
Regular script is generally used as an introductory text, which can follow seal script and play a connecting role.
2. seal script
Seal script is a general term for big seal script and small seal script. The brushwork is thin and powerful, with many straight lines. There are Fang Bi, round pen and sharp pen, and there are many "hanging needles" for writing.
Seal script is the earliest script, and its brushwork is relatively simple compared with other scripts. The knot of seal script is decorative. The style of seal script is serious and the cloth is rigorous. Learning seal script can avoid weakness, vulgarity, barrenness and inclination. "
3. Running script
Running script is a font between regular script and cursive script. Running script was the most famous in Song Dynasty, including Mi Fei, Su Shi and Huang Tingjian of Cai Xiang.
Preface to Lanting, a masterpiece of running script, is the most famous work of Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Predecessors described it as "a dragon descending from heaven, a tiger lying in a phoenix pavilion" and praised it as "the best running script in the world".
4, cursive script
There are three kinds of cursive scripts: Cao Zhang, Modern Cao Cao and Crazy Cao Cao. There are rules to follow in the changes of Cao Zhang's strokes, such as the portrait of Huang Wu in Songjiang Edition of Three Kingdoms.
Today's cursive script is eclectic and fluent. Mad cursive script appeared in the Tang Dynasty, represented by Zhang Xu and Huai Su, and its brushwork was wild and uninhibited, which became an artistic creation completely divorced from practicality. From then on, cursive script was just a copy of Cao Zhang, the calligrapher's today's grass and weeds.
5. Official script
After seal script, official script is a very beautiful style. And the beauty of Bo and Zhen.
The so-called "wave" is that the left line of the stroke is like a meander, and it becomes left in the later regular script; The so-called "stroke" only opens the right pen, which looks like a "dovetail" pen. When writing a long horizontal line, the pen begins to cut into the "silkworm head" facing the front, with the pen in the middle having a wave distance and a tail at the end.
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