To write hard-pen regular script well, we should mainly start from two aspects, that is, writing with pen and receiving words (inter-frame structure). Hard-pen regular script pen is mainly used to write basic strokes, in addition to understanding and mastering some commonly used professional terms. Here is a brief introduction.
Essentials of basic stroke writing
In traditional calligraphy teaching, the writing requirements of basic strokes are always complicated and profound, and students will lose interest in calligraphy practice from the beginning. I summed it up with a simple and easy-to-remember formula: "Tilt horizontally and stand upright; Keep your nose clean and move quickly. " The explanation is as follows:
"Horizontal Oblique": Due to human visual error, horizontal painting is generally slightly inclined to the upper right, which is easy to gain momentum. It breaks the common thinking of "horizontal and vertical", gives students an epiphany and changes the original writing style.
"Vertical": Vertical is often the backbone of a word. In order to make a word stand like a prose, it must be straight when writing, but pay attention to the straightness in the song. There are two kinds of vertical: hanging needle and hanging dew. You should not only tell students how to write the hanging needle and the hanging dew, but also tell them how to use it. I found that hanging a needle is often used as the last stroke of a word, and you need to pause before you can enter the next stroke.
"Leaving the front": Leaving the front is the wing of the word, and the elegance of the front is the beauty of agility. Pay attention to symmetry when writing, don't be one high and one low. Skimming the front is like a human hand or foot, which has twists and turns and must be written out.
"Point quickly": the point is the eye of a word, and the small point also contains the rhythm of ups and downs. Remember the effect of finishing the point, stop the point when writing, reach the eye, and emphasize a fast word. Don't procrastinate, write a short paragraph. When you write, you should volley in and fly, like a chicken eating rice, up and down.
Points can be divided into oblique points, vertical points, left points and skimming points, among which only skimming points should be weighted first and then weighted, while others are weighted first and then weighted.
In addition, in the practice of basic strokes, it is necessary to strengthen the cultivation of the three-step rhythm of starting, writing and receiving, so that students can meditate on one, two and three while writing, which is easy to get results.
Writing essentials of bookshelf structure
The research of frame structure has been fully prepared in ancient and modern times. Combined with the characteristics of students, I edited a pithy jingle, which is not only easy to understand, but also unforgettable, with remarkable effect.
"People are like people", and the appearance beauty of people is similar to the beauty of human body. The human body is composed of body cavities and limbs, and it has the beauty of movement, standing like a pine, sitting like a bell, lying like a bow, and walking like the wind, all of which are similar to the appearance beauty of characters. Therefore, learning Chinese characters should be flexible and compact.
I use the following words to refine the complex rules of shelf structure: "Close left and right, align up and down; The strokes do not fight and are evenly arranged; Different from the same pen, the word has a focus. " A brief description is as follows:
"Near left near right":
Words with left and right structures should avoid each other, the strokes in the middle should be close together, and the strokes on both sides can extend outward. The left side should be small and the right side should stand out. The same is true of left, middle and right structures, such as: board, dialect, river, Xu, tree and micro.
"Up and down should be aligned": the figures in the upper and lower structures, whether they are wide at the top or narrow at the bottom, should be aligned with the center of gravity, and the center of gravity should be on the same line. Regarding the determination of the center of gravity, I think ambigrams's center of gravity is on the Chinese painting, such as the focus of gravity, preciousness, south painting and vertical painting; For example, the focus of words such as window, home and picture is on stippling, while the focus of asymmetric words is on intersection, such as: each, important, inclusive and life.
"No strokes": The stippling of regular script should be orderly distributed, strewn at random and orderly, without overlapping or crossing. For example, people have good facial features and clear eyes. When writing, pay attention to avoiding pens, so as to avoid repeating pens and failing to hand in pens. Words that are easy to fail are: give, eat, pick up and so on.
"Uniform arrangement": the strokes of a word are evenly distributed, closely spaced and elastic.
For example, the word "quantity" should be drawn horizontally at equal intervals; The vertical painting of the word "Zhou" should be equally spaced, and the three strokes of the word "Shan" should change symmetrically.
"Different strokes": Calligraphy pays attention to the beauty of nature, and there are differences in words or strokes in a work, just like two identical trees can't be found in a forest, and two identical leaves can't be found on a tree. For example, for the same stroke, we should pay attention to the difference in the long and short directions, such as the different horizontal length of "beauty" and the different direction of "Xu".
"In a word": Everything has its primary and secondary points, and calligraphy also pays attention to the primary and secondary points. A word always has one or three prominent key strokes, which generally require stretching and straightness. In order to highlight the key points, other strokes should generally be written in a restrained way, such as: three, seeing, dividing, forever, and destiny.
Brief introduction of common calligraphy terms
Understanding and mastering common calligraphy terms will help to overcome common faults, get rid of bad habits and improve the artistry of hard-pen calligraphy.
"Three twists and turns" refers to the ups and downs of the shape of the pen from the beginning to the writing, and it is also the rhythm of one, two and three required by our practice of basic strokes.
"Swallows don't fly together": It means that if a word has two strokes, it is generally processed, only one stroke is kept, and one stroke is written as a point. In calligraphy, strokes are often written as dots, which meets the requirements of avoiding the heavy and neglecting the light. Words such as sen, zi, Ji, zi and ran.
"seeing straight is better than curved" means that when writing vertical paintings, it is not straight blindly, but straight in the middle. Just like the back of the human body, although it has a bow, it feels straight and can show some strength. Otherwise, although