The Han Li "Cao Quan Stele" is one of the famous masterpieces among official calligraphy inscriptions.
The full name of "Cao Quan Stele" is "Han Heyang Ling Cao Quan Stele". It is an important representative work of the official script of the Han Dynasty. This stele is unique among Han official scripts. It is a stele with a large number of characters preserved in the official script of the Han Dynasty. The handwriting is beautiful and elegant, the structure is flat and well-proportioned, it is stretched and graceful, the style is graceful, the strokes are straight, both long and short. It belongs to the same category of elegance as "Yi Ying" and "Liturgical Vessels", but the expression is gorgeous and flying, and there is "Looking back and smiling, you will be charming" This state of affairs is actually a strange thing among Han Li.
1. Horizontal drawing.
Horizontal paintings are distinctive strokes in official script. "Flying horizontally" is often regarded as the beauty. There are two types of horizontal paintings in official script, one is flat horizontal and the other is wave horizontal. There are two kinds of square pen and round pen.
1. Horizontal. It refers to the horizontal shape, generally starting the pen against the front, folding the pen and running in the center, and closing the pen with the front or exposing the front. There are convex, concave and basically flat shapes.
2. The wave is horizontal. It is a kind of wave brush, which means that the horizontal painting has a pitching state. Generally, the pen is started against the front, folded and paused to form a silkworm's head, and then the pen is lifted and moved until it is closed and the pen is folded to form a swallow's tail. There is also the phenomenon of silkworms with small swallowtails and large tails. The horizontal wave should generally be written thick and round, the head and tail of the silkworm should be full, and the middle of the horizontal wave should be slightly curved upward.
2. Vertical painting.
Vertical strokes are just ordinary strokes in official script. This stroke has a greater component of seal script, that is, most of them are rounded and rounded. Some of the vertical ends are sharper, and they are not hanging needles in regular script, but are naturally closed when writing. The vertical strokes of official script generally start with the reverse front, move slowly with the center forward, and close with the hidden front. There are three forms of vertical painting in official script: vertical in the middle, vertical in an arc to the left, and vertical in an arc to the right. There is also a square pen, which means starting the pen against the front, cutting to the upper left corner, and folding the pen downwards. Although vertical paintings are not as distinctive as wave paintings in official scripts, they should not be underestimated when writing.