Thirty-six Laws is a book on calligraphy, with a volume of * * *. This book is a monograph for the author to teach calligraphy skills according to the physical characteristics of Chinese characters and his own reading experience. The 36 items listed are all: overlapping, avoiding, piercing, inserting, leaning back, leaning to one side, holding, letting, filling space, covering, sticking to zero, bonding, accelerating, full, not wanting to be empty, connecting, overlapping, dragging, borrowing, changing, increasing or decreasing, supporting, supporting, facing and responding. Now let's talk about skills, analyze gains and losses, point out key points, give examples, and some quote his words to help understand. The structure, composition and relationship of calligraphy are all introduced by calligraphers. For example, the word "stack" is like a cloud: words should be stacked, dense, even, neither wide nor narrow ... The eight strokes say "divide the room into white". "Avoid it" is a cloud: avoid it easily, avoid it easily, avoid it easily, avoid it easily, avoid it easily, and avoid it closely, so that the two can reflect each other properly. "Wearing a top hat" is a cloud: there are many people who carry on the family line, but those who are more important than others, wearing a top hat, want to gain momentum ... "Eight strokes" sign says: oblique as one person, named download; It is also said that we should not neglect the head and tail. This is also very important. "Interweaving" is a cloud: people who interweave calligraphy and painting want its density, length, size, and even stop ... The same is true of the so-called "four sides stop evenly, eight sides have it" in the eight major tactics. "Giving and taking" is a cloud: the left and right sides of a word, more or less, have to give and take from each other to be perfect. For example, the words next to "horse", "iron" and "bird" must be straight on the left, and then the words can be used on the right, otherwise it will be inconvenient. ...
This book has clear entries, short narration, appropriate and incisive theories and typical and appropriate examples. In the field of calligraphy research, a new form of Chinese character classification has been created, which is really helpful for calligraphy learners to analyze the physical characteristics of Chinese characters. Pei Wenzhai's Calligraphy and Painting Book in Qing Dynasty thinks that there are words such as Song Gaozong's calligraphy, Mr. Dongpo's and those who study European calligraphy, so it is suspected that it was not written in Tang Dynasty. However, this book is still an excellent work devoted to Chinese characters, and it is an influential masterpiece in the history of China's calligraphy.