The earliest works of calligraphy art are not words, but some descriptive symbols-hieroglyphics or picture words. Symbols depicting Chinese characters first appeared on pottery. The primitive depiction symbol only represents a rough concept of chaos and has no exact meaning.
More than 8,000 years ago, magnetic mountain culture, Fiji and Khan Lee cultures appeared in the Yellow River Basin. There are many characters-like symbols on the hand-made ceramics unearthed in Fiji and Khan Lee, which are the chaotic combination of the communication function, note-taking function and pattern decoration function of the ancestors. Although these Chinese characters are unrecognizable by modern people, they are indeed the embryonic form of Chinese characters.
Immediately after the Banpo site of Yangshao culture about 6000 years ago, some painted pottery with similar characters were unearthed. These symbols are distinguished from patterns, which promotes the development of Chinese characters. This can be said to be the origin of China characters.
Then Erlitou culture and Erligang culture. In the archaeological excavation of Erlitou culture, there are 24 kinds of marked pottery pieces, some of which are similar to Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins, and all of them are single independent characters. Erligang culture was found to have a writing system.
Three bones with words were found here, two with words and a cross, which seemed to be carved for practicing lettering. This has made civilization take another big step forward.
The origin of primitive characters is an imitation instinct, which is used to visualize a specific thing. Although it is simple and chaotic, it already has a certain aesthetic taste. This simple writing can therefore be called prehistoric calligraphy.
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Calligraphy aesthetics;
1, beautiful stippling structure
There are two main ways to construct the structural beauty of stippling. One is that all kinds of stippling colors are directly combined into various beautiful single characters and radicals according to a certain combination method. The second is to combine various radicals into various glyphs in a certain way. The radical combinations of Chinese characters are nothing more than left-right type, left-middle-right type, up-down type, upper-middle-lower type, enclosing type and semi-enclosing type.
These principles are mainly the principles of proportion, balance, rhythm, rhythm and simplicity. What I want to mention here is the principle of proportion, in which the golden ratio is a very important proportion and is very important for the structural beauty of stippling.
2. The combination of ink and color is beautiful
The artistry of ink color combination mainly refers to the order of its combination. Calligraphy, as an art, its various colors can no longer be chaotic, but should be very orderly. There are also some aesthetic principles that writers need to abide by. Such as emphasis, gradual change and balance.
The ink color combination of calligraphy structure mainly involves two aspects: one is the segmentation and combination of background colors. People often say that "black hours count white" is the content in this respect. The second is the stippling structure of ink color combination. From the overall effect of the work, we should not only pay attention to the plane structure of stippling pen and ink, but also pay attention to the layering of stippling pen and ink, so as to enhance the expression depth of calligraphy.
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