Speed is a "secret" of penmanship. The preciousness of the original is that it retains traces of speed, while the reproduction loses the relevant information. Although the traces are all there, it is not easy to understand the change in speed if no one points to you. In the end, it is up to you to practice a lot on your own to really understand what a role speed plays in words.
The high level is the expression on the basis of skill: the high level of people plus speed can complete the strokes of the spirit, the trend of the trend, the continuous qi, and the decisive random regulation, the instantaneous natural changes, the realm of the unity of heart and hand, and the content of the understanding.
1. Speed is subconscious
Speed makes every stroke thoughtless, more natural, more accurate, and more meaningful. Writing with speed relies on the subconscious that is cultivated in writing, including the subconscious of using the pen, the subconscious of structure, the subconscious of connecting and avoiding, and so on. If these consciousnesses still have to think and think when they write, it will not be possible to write at a speed. It takes a long time for the subconscious mind to form!
The final perfection of the pen is also perfected by writing with speed, because many strokes can only be completed in the dynamic at a certain speed, because it is in this dynamic that the ancients wrote these strokes.
Second, the word speed forms the word momentum
Speed brings out the trend, the trend is not made, it is put out, it is full of coming out! Go to have speed, some people are envious of the changes in the word "Zhi" in "Lanting", if you study it carefully, you might as well list the words before and after, it is not difficult to see that all the differences are not intentional, it is with the "meaning", is with the meaning of the upper and lower words. Randomness is also a subconscious.
Write the speed according to the natural structure of the word, up and down the cohesion of the stroke order, the use of the word in the animal force, tension, pull out of the natural pull out of the trend, no speed can not be pulled and can not be lived, (of course, all kinds of pen flexibility, shape of the flexibility must be in a state that can be mobilized at will). When there is no writing speed, it is a mechanical shape, and the so-called deformation is an artificial composition and angle pulling, like building a board and a row of building blocks. With speed, the shape can be changed in writing, and the speed is like a baton, pointing fast and undertaking fast. One trend after another, one momentum after another. Each glyph we see in the ancients is actually a character that has been pulled and deformed in the writing speed because of the relationship between up and down or left and right, and if you simply combine the collected characters together, it will not be coherent.
3. Speed forms the qi pulse
The pause of breathing, the pause of adding ink, the pause of words and sentences, and the pause of line breaks are all completed in acceleration and deceleration. Sentence after sentence to have different feelings, line breaks, paper to hold their breath to continue, all the continuity in the word to be combined by different air pauses is like threading a needle, without a certain speed there is no driving force to wear. Astringency is pushing, moistening and pulling, and the so-called true qi drum is generated by the conversion of speed and by lifting. The relaxation of the qi veins forms a rhythm, and the rhythm transmits the breath.
Fourth, the speed concept corresponds to the regulation force
This kind of regulation can only rely on the heart, if you rely on the eye to compare, and then use your hands to adjust, you can't write fast at all, write not fast, but also brain-wrenching. The so-called intention is to write first, that is, to write firmly, writing a word has already thought about the next few words, and thinking about it is not a specific glyph at all. At this time, the word is like a feeling, and the form is just the result of this feeling being expressed and falling on the paper. This kind of regulation is random, no one can teach it, and it completely depends on one's own cultivation and talent. The ability to regulate is also one of the manifestations of one's own style, and this ability cannot be imitated.
Because the adventist can learn to use the pen, learn the structure, and even deal with the text, but he just doesn't have the ability to move. This ability creates workarounds, and it's foolish for a lot of people to mechanically learn these random workarounds. A few years ago, I saw Mao Zedong's characters imitated by the handscroll into a vertical scroll, which is very similar, but in addition to the heroic world, how can every word of the small handscroll be put into a vertical scroll as it is, and the glyph has not changed at all?
Fifth, the speed changes unexpectedly
The speed has produced an instantaneous change, and the beauty of this change was unexpected when I wrote it, and future generations can no longer write it, but it is loved and imitated.
This kind of instantaneous change is not sought, but it can be produced when the conditions are enough and the speed is added. Some of the excitement is also a kind of loss of control of speed. Read the aberrations of those who came before you, but don't learn them. To appreciate how it is abnormal, to understand how it is abnormal. We can also be out of shape, but don't lose our temper. This aberration is some kind of innocence. The innocence of nature cannot be learned. The most important thing about "Juanjuan Hair House" written by Bai Qianshen is to say that modern people's practice has entered a dead end of repetition and copying. There is no naivety, but instead of learning innocence from naïve passers-by, the result is only Dong Shi Xiaofeng!
Where does naivety come from? First, we are ignorant and have nothing in our heads, or we need to learn thoroughly, and when we are transparent and add speed, it will be natural, and the unexpected changes at this time will be even more subtle and moving!
Sixth, speed makes the heart and hand one
It's hard to standardize the speed of speed, and when you want to be practical, of course, it's fast and good, but now I think this fast can be defined as not having time to think so much, just enough to think about the content. Fast may not be able to ensure the unity of heart and hand, but only when a certain speed is reached, can we forget ourselves and be united with heart and hand.
There are differences in speed between different book genres. Now there are many people who can't write slowly, and the regular script is even more like a beetle crawling, and the speed of the ancients writing regular script can't be so slow, otherwise it won't be able to get angry. This is especially true of Xingshu, where many of the handwriting of the Jin, Tang, and Song dynasties are in the form of books, which are very fast. Cursive writing is not as good as slow writing. Speed is difficult to define, because many people have been used to it in the past, so it seems that it is rarely mentioned in the book theory, and it is natural to mention it when changing the applied art to "pure" art today.
In fact, the ancients used the same tools to write as we do, and when they encounter difficult places, they will be slower, and where they are comfortable, they will be faster. Use the speed we feel in writing to read the "speed" in the notebook. Then guide us to practice. From the restoration of the ancients to the restoration of the self. The final self is the ancients of the future!