Calligraphy enthusiasts are familiar with the techniques of Tibetan feng, lu feng, lift, dun, press, and frustrated in calligraphy, including the use of arm strength, wrist strength, palm strength, and finger strength in writing force. The twist pipe or turn pipe, so that the turn, is a technique of writing brush words, colloquially speaking, is to write the brush word, according to the actual needs of the brush tube according to the clockwise or counterclockwise direction of twisting or turning.
The role and purpose of the twisting technique
The first function of the twisting pipe technique is to make the pen edge maintain a smooth posture and ensure the fluency of writing; the second function is to adjust the pen edge at any time through the twisting tube to run in the central position of the stroke, which is what we often call the center pen, only through the center of the pen, can finally achieve the artistic effect of penetrating the back of the paper.
To put it bluntly, only by twisting the pipe can the starting stroke of the calligraphy be stable, so that the strokes of the line and cursive are like flowing water and flowing clouds, and the calligraphy of the Kai and Wei scripts can achieve a vigorous and powerful artistic effect.
The artistic effect of the twisting technique
What is a force-through paper back? The back of the paper is not poured with ink in piles to smudge the back of the rice paper, but through the center of the pen to make the pen always run in the center of the dot painting, the brush in the process of running the last remaining ink through the pen edge left in the center of the dot painting, on the back of the rice paper is a thick ink in the middle of the dot painting. Therefore, the artistic effect of the back of the paper can only be achieved through the twisting of the pipe, if the pipe is not twisted, the whole work is all a flanking pen, and the back of the paper cannot be talked about, let alone calligraphy?
The scope of application of the twisting tube action
The scope of application of the twisting pipe is wide. Small Kai, Zhongkai, and List Books need to be twisted, and the size of the line, grass, li, and seal books must be twisted, and if the pipe is not twisted, it is impossible to do the center of the pen in the process of moving the pen. What should be emphasized here is that the seal book only has three dot paintings of horizontal, vertical and arc, and horizontal strokes and vertical strokes can grasp the collection, transportation and collection, but the writing of the arc is not twisted, and the pen cannot be carried out by the center.
No matter which font is written, it is necessary to twist the tube, for example, Sun Guoting said in the "Book Notation": "The real dot painting is the shape, so that it turns into a sentimental nature; the grass takes the dot painting as the emotional nature, so that it turns into a form." The grass obediently turns, not into words; the real loss of dot painting, still can remember the text, although the return is different, generally involved. That is to say, the real book uses dot painting to form the form, relying on the transformation to express the emotion; cursive uses the dot painting to reveal the spirituality, and relies on the transformation into the form. Cursive writing cannot be written in a way that is not easy to turn; if the real book lacks the skill of dot painting, it can record the words. The two forms of writing are different from each other, but the rules for making the turn are roughly the same. Therefore, it is not possible to measure the merits of words by the standards of calligraphy, and it is not possible to use the technique of twisting pipes.
The necessity of twisting pipe writing
In the creation of calligraphy, the use of pipe twisting techniques is very necessary and indispensable.
First, the expression effect of calligraphy is not allowed, and if the use of twisting pipe techniques is lacking in writing, it will be difficult to show the artistic effect of calligraphy works.
Second, cursive words are not allowed to turn more than 360 degrees. Here it is said that the center pen is achieved by twisting the tube, and to maintain the center pen, the pen must be rotated or twisted to a large number to maintain the center pen.
At present, many calligraphy enthusiasts have a common problem, that is, the brush is grasped too dead in writing, there is no twisting stroke action, but arbitrarily smeared, and the flank of the whole work abounds, which is not able to fully understand the rules of writing. Although some people use wrist strength to adjust the pen edge when closing the front, this action is very different from the twisting tube.
Twisting pipe is only a kind of calligraphy technique, which is a comprehensive embodiment of ideological and cultural level and personal cultivation. If you want to write a good brush and reach the artistic realm of calligraphy, you must immerse yourself in learning and practicing, and you will have a piece of cultivation and a joy of harvest.