"How to Write Chapter Cursive" is a book published by People's Fine Arts Publishing House in 2005. The author is Xie Kongbin.
Xie Kongbin, whose courtesy name is Zhuolun, is also known as the Master of Mingxinzhai. Professor of Heze University, member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, and deputy director of the Education Department of Calligraphy in Shandong Province Colleges and Universities.
Mr. Xie Kongbin was born in Shanxian County, Shandong Province in 1930. After graduating from the Chinese Department of the university, he engaged in education. He has been teaching calligraphy education in colleges and universities for more than 20 years. He has published monographs such as "Calligraphy Tutorial", "Principles of Chinese Calligraphy", and "The Art of Xie Kongbin's Calligraphy". His calligraphy works are simple in style and elegant in style. In 2001, he won the gold medal in the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition of Ten Universities held by the Ministry of Education of China. His biography and works have been included in more than ten dictionaries including "Dictionary of Contemporary Calligraphers and Painters", "Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Calligraphers and Painters", and "Who's Who in the Chinese Contemporary Art Circle".
Content introduction
"How to write Zhangcao" Content introduction: Zhangcao is a kind of cursive writing in official script. It is a new calligraphy style evolved from the Caoli of the Qin Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Yuan of the Western Han Dynasty, Shi You compiled and compiled "Jijiu Zhang" to regularize this new style of calligraphy. This created a model for Zhang cursive script.
The characteristic of Zhangcao's calligraphy is that each word is independent, unlike today's cursive calligraphy, which is tangled and entangled. Its strokes are round and round like seal script, and the strokes are like official script. There are lingering threads and lingering connections between the strokes within a character, and the thickness and weight of the strokes vary greatly. Some horizontal strokes are often drawn out with heavy strokes toward the upper right like official script, just like the closing strokes of official script.
Characteristics of Zhangcao calligraphy: Zhangcao omits the silkworm head of the official script but retains the tail of the wild goose. The heavy strokes of the wildgoose tail are inconvenient for writing quickly, so the status of Zhangcao is overshadowed by modern calligraphy. replaced. But in Jincao, there are many and obvious inheritance relationships with Zhangcao.