Liao Yubing Linliu Gongquan "Xuan Secret Pagoda Stele"
In the calligraphy jianghu, there is a saying that it was a roadblock for me to learn calligraphy:
Pro post just began to read a stroke to write a stroke, and then to learn to read a word to write a word, and gradually developed to look at a few words, look at a line or lines...
There are many expressions of this statement, the general meaning is that when you are posting, you can see and write a stroke, the level is not enough; at a glance, the more you write, the better, the more level.
Sounds reasonable, I've been using it for years and can't do it either.
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The change of strokes is very subtle, even if the same post, the same word, there are differences, is not there a famous story:
Wang Xizhi wrote the "Orchid Pavilion Preface", the main text of the 20 "Zhi" characters, each written in a different way, means that the strokes in the characters are not the same.
Several "zigzags" in the Orchid Pavilion Preface
When posting, if you deliberately want to read and write a lot of pens at the beginning, it is not easy to do, and you are likely to adopt two strategies:
One, ignore the subtle differences in these strokes.
Second, memorize the differences in these strokes.
Following the first strategy, you just write the words roughly, vaguely, and generically, not easily noticing the personality of each word.
Following the second strategy, in our experience, students in general, and beginners in particular, have their main focus taken up by back strokes, making it difficult to use them twice. At this time, it is difficult for you to pay attention to the balance in the middle of a certain word, the imbalance, the extraordinary arrangement... All kinds of wonderful things, what we call "words" (equivalent to poetry eyes, painting eyes);
It is also difficult to pay attention to a certain font, book style, the god and aesthetic temperament contained, and as a result, one word after another seems to be quite right, but the overall style is not like it.
In general, such a post, it is more difficult to improve.
Should become, aesthetically pro-post, improve vision, learn to appreciate, constantly cultural life and life. Turn this "text" into a practical process through the post.
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Is it that you can only write one stroke by looking at one stroke?
Not quite.
As the learning progresses and the skills become proficient, it will appear that you can write a few strokes at a glance, or write a word at a glance.
Our conclusion is that look at a few strokes to write, casually.
If you can write a few strokes, you can write a few strokes, like to write a few strokes, even if you don't see it clearly, you can come back to see it halfway through. Don't dwell on the problem, ignore it, and focus on other things.
Another problem to note is that in teaching, we find that it is easier for new students to write "scattered".
I remind students that when writing, write a stroke and see the whole word. To write a word, we must take care of the whole article, and the part is always the part of the whole. When dealing with the part, your mind and God must pay attention to the whole, otherwise the work will be scattered. After practice, students can basically overcome this problem relatively quickly. (See textbook "Learning Calligraphy clearly and plainly", pp. 37, 38, Why are the works "scattered"?) ）
Of course, the care of the whole here is mainly to grasp the relationship between the part and the whole, and there is no need to write down every detail. And the above is not contradictory.
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