Silkworm head and goose tail are the most common brushwork in official script. Official script is a common solemn font in Chinese characters, with a slightly flat writing effect, long horizontal drawing and short straight drawing, and pays attention to "silkworm head and goose tail" and "twists and turns"
Official script, such as Qin Li and Han Li, is generally considered to have developed from seal script.
According to the unearthed bamboo slips, official script originated in Qin Dynasty, and Cheng Miao was also called official script. Han Li reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty, inherited the tradition of seal script, and opened the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, which had a great influence on later calligraphy. The calligraphy circle is known as "Tang Kai of Han Li".
Structural features of official script;
65438+ The so-called "silkworm head" refers to the process of hiding the front with a pen, and at the same time, the shape of the strokes formed in the process of starting the pen is written into a shape similar to that of a silkworm head. "Dovetail", that is, press the pen at the pen-receiving place, and then pick the pen obliquely to the upper right.
2. The left and right sides of the flat font are separated, which is contrary to the normal vertical trend of seal script and changed to horizontal trend, resulting in the contraction of the vertical trend of flat font and strokes and strengthening the distribution of horizontal trend.
3. Turning a circle into a square and an arc into a straight are two basic methods to simplify seal script in official script. But if you don't know the circle of seal script, it is not easy to master the side of official script. Because the straight painting or square folding in official script contains the arc potential of seal script, the straight of official script often has obvious ups and downs and is full of vitality. In fact, the brushwork of official script is based on the way of stroke movement.
4. Change the painting into dots and break it. We know that there is no point in seal script, that is, the point used is just a dot. However, the points in the official script have been independent and no longer attached to painting, and the point method is increasingly rich, including flat points, vertical points, left and right points, 3.4 points and so on.
In addition, Lishu also broke many strokes written in seal script, which opened the door to writing. Later, regular script played like this, allowing traces of cohesion between pens, and even breaking the meaning of pens.
5. In seal script, there is no trace of the vertical lifting of the pen, while the official script deliberately emphasizes the lifting, resulting in a significant change in the thickness and inheritance of the stroke trajectory, which is clearly reflected in the three processes of starting, walking and collecting the pen. This is very similar to later regular script.