What is the beauty of calligraphy?

Ping is the most basic rule of the structural beauty of China's calligraphy. There is not a calligraphy work in past dynasties that does not list fairness as the first principle in learning knot characters. In his book Fractions, Sun said, "Beginners should learn distribution, but seek fairness. Calligraphers are very concerned about reflecting the beauty of calligraphy structure from the shape and center of gravity of fluent words.

2, the law of change

From the word formation, change has two meanings. First, a large number of stippling of a word should avoid repetition. Wang Xizhi once said that "if it is flat and similar, it looks like an operator, and the upper and lower are integrated, but it is not." In his book Preface to Lanting Collection, there are many ways to write "Zhi".

Second, within the whole article, the structure between words should be diversified on the basis of unified style. This simple understanding is that the overall cooperation between the characters in the whole work embodies beauty. For example, the writing method looks uneven every word, but the overall structure of the work is beautiful.

3. Consistency rules

Refers to the relationship between strokes and radicals that echo, reflect, implicate and connect with each other. There are two ways of word structure coherence, one is invisible coherence and the other is tangible coherence. Invisible coherence is generally regarded as the mutual echo between word-formation strokes, while visible coherence is the whole word in one go, and the strokes are consistent to the end.

Of course, there are other laws in the structural beauty of China's calligraphy, but the three laws of fairness, change and coherence are the most important and basic. They are closely related and a dialectical whole. Equality is the basic premise of change and integration, and change and integration are the means and ways of the beauty of equality.

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Five styles of writing

1, seal script

Seal script is a general term for big seal script and small seal script. Oracle Bone Inscriptions, 3000 years ago, is the earliest recognizable writing handed down, mainly used for divination. The brushwork is thin and powerful, with many straight lines. There are Fang Bi, round pen and sharp pen, and there are many "hanging needles" for writing. Big seal script refers to inscriptions on bronze inscriptions, bronzes and six-country scripts, which retain the obvious characteristics of ancient hieroglyphics.

2. Official script

Lishu, also called Han Li, is a solemn font commonly used in Chinese characters. Its writing effect is slightly wide and flat, the horizontal painting is long and straight, and it is rectangular, paying attention to "silkworm head and goose tail" and "twists and turns". Lishu originated in the Qin Dynasty and was compiled by Cheng Miao. It reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which had a great influence on later calligraphy. Calligraphy is called "Tang Kai of Han Li".

3. Regular script

Regular script is also called regular script, real script and official script. Li Shu, founded by Cheng Miao, has gradually evolved and become more simplified and level. Regular script has the meaning of model, which was first mentioned in Zhang Huaiguan's Shu Duan. People in the Six Dynasties still used it habitually, such as Yang Xin's Cai, and On the Biography of Wei Shou, saying, "Shou is a general, and Jingzhao people are good at regular script."

4. Running script

Running script is developed and originated on the basis of official script, which produces a font between regular script and cursive script to make up for the slow writing speed of regular script and the fuzziness of cursive script.

"Go" means "go", so it is not as scribbled as cursive script, nor as straight as regular script. Whether it is cursive or cursive in essence. Those with more patterns than grass patterns are called "running patterns", and those with more grass patterns are called "running grass".

5, cursive script

Cursive script is a font of Chinese characters, which is characterized by simple structure and continuous strokes. Formed in the Han Dynasty, it evolved on the basis of official script for the convenience of writing. There are Cao Zhang, modern grass and weeds, and it feels beautiful in madness.

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