Only excellent strokes, without good connection, the written words must be stiff and lifeless. Excellent strokes must be combined with excellent connection techniques and good ideas, and the written words must be beautiful, so the connection of calligraphy plays an important role in the writing process. The professional language associated with calligraphy is called "brushwork meaning", which belongs to the technical category and is an important link that can not be ignored in the process of calligraphy learning.
The strokes of calligraphy are connected by lines. In connection, it can be divided into real connection and virtual connection.
Solid connection: as the name implies, strokes are connected by lines, which are more common in cursive scripts; Virtual connection: refers to the strokes are not connected with each other, but the word meaning is connected, and the left and right are expected, which is more common in seal script, regular script and cursive script.
However, in practice, due to different fonts, the connection methods are also different. This is determined according to the characteristics of different fonts. Seal script is wrapped with strokes, regular script is wrapped with strokes, and cursive script can be wrapped with strokes or strokes. What is explained here is that regular script can also be wrapped with strokes, and seal script can't be written with strokes. The reason is very simple, that is, there is a father before a son, and it cannot be reversed. Knowing this, we divide the connection of calligraphy into three forms: upper connection, lower connection, left connection and right connection. Look from the font, Lian Bi can be divided into Lian Bi of seal script, regular script and cursive script. Only by fully understanding can we do better. Let me make an introduction respectively:
The connection of seal script
The cohesion of transferred Li depends on the characteristics of transferred Li strokes. The strokes of Zhuanli are mostly straight and plain, and the strokes don't change much. The pen is wrapped with a pen to hide the front. According to this feature, how can we wrap the pen and hide the front when connecting? This is the key to the cohesion of the official seal. From the connection mode of strokes, it can be divided into horizontal connection, vertical connection and oblique connection.