The Calligraphy Art of Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting

1. Horizontal and vertical: Most of the horizontal and vertical paintings in the preface to Lanting reflect the characteristics of Wang Xizhi's brushwork. Horizontal paintings such as "Stone" and "Ancient" all start from the side, and the pen is hidden before the middle tone. The last stroke of "year" and "yin" is hidden or present, calm but not slippery, heavy and powerful.

2. Skimming and squeezing

Running script can be divided into hidden writing and explicit writing. And show off the positive ones, such as "Left" and "Less". Zuo Zangfeng often returns to the front, such as "being". Take the pen back or put it back. Those who return are like "foot" and those who release are like "forest" and "ambition". Some become long and slow because of writing fast, or become backward or horizontal, such as "big" and "swimming"

3. Points and hooks: Points and hooks are called "eyebrows" of words and play an important role in running script. The integral changes the most. Different characters and different positions have different shapes, such as dots, vertical dots and long dots. , or before hiding or before leaving, such as "forever", "room", "outside" and "also". Hooks are also written in various ways, such as "Hua", "Wei" and "Old".

4. Picking and folding: Picking has a single appearance in the running script, such as "Bao", and some are combined with other strokes, such as "Although". Fold is a common stroke in running script writing, which is generally different from square pen and circle, such as "day" and "line"