Many people have encountered many strange words in the process of learning calligraphy, of which "the pen is expensive and winding around the left" is one of them.
The Tang Dynasty calligrapher Lin Yun's "Stirrup Sequence" said: "The pen is expensive around the left, and the book is expensive and slow." ”
Because the word "left" is mostly used in our daily life as an indicator of direction, it is difficult to understand when learning calligraphy.
What does it mean to "pen expensive around the left"? Let's explain, there may be some book lovers will understand.
I see that there are many people on the Internet who make articles to explain the word, saying that it is left and right in the structure of the word, or from right to left on the pen, or from right to left line by line during the writing process. None of these explanations are acceptable to true calligraphers.
"The pen is expensive around the left" is about using a pen. The ancients paid attention to writing with one stroke, and each dot painting was "one stroke".
"Left", one of the explanations is "opposite". We're going to explore how to "do the opposite" with a pen.
He also said: "The force is the bone body, and the son knows it?" "Isn't it true that the pencils and dot paintings all have bones and bones, and the font is naturally majestic?" Long History: "Yes,'. ——Yan Zhenqing, "The Twelve Meanings of Zhang Changshi"
Here it is mentioned that "the pencil has bones and bones in the dot painting", and Zhang Xu replied "yes".
Pointillist paintings all have bones and bones, that is to say, "all" pointillist paintings have bones and bones.
That is to say, all pointillist paintings must be "tossed", so let's study what "tuobi" is.
The Eight Laws of Yongzi says that the zhaoshu crouches down, and when it is out, it will come out, and when it comes out, it will be secretly harvested. Youyun: The former picture scroll is not out of mind. Tips: The edge of the wind is lightly exposed to take advantage of the situation, the momentum is not strong, the pen is not frustrated, the meaning is not deep. With the pick of one also, the front is more expensive than the astringent, the astringent period is inverted, and the so-called desire to mention the return is also placed.
To put it simply, the pen should be "frustrated", the momentum should be "vigorous", the front should be "squatting", the output should be "astringent", and the summary should be "returned".
In the "Eight Laws of Yongzi", the brush is what we often say about the hook, pick.
For example, the pencil for writing yongzi, when writing to the end of the straight pen, the pen should "crouch" to take advantage of the momentum, to the right down, the tip of the pen to the left, the pen to the right, after the strength has been accumulated, the pen itself has the elasticity to jump up to the left, take advantage of the momentum to change the pen of another force face, write this dot painting.
The whole process is to cause the direction of the charge to be "opposite" to the direction of the dot painting to be completed.
Crouching, frustrated, gaining momentum, and changing faces are the keys to writing.
Speaking of yan Zhenqing's talk about the brush, "the brush has bones and bones in point painting." Each dot painting has its direction of travel, but if you want to have a "bone" in the dot painting, you must squat and write it. That is, the pencil. The pencil is to let the "pen wrap around the left", and the next pen is the opposite of the dot painting to be written, so that the dot portrait is jumped out.
If every dot painting is written in the way of a toe pen, the dot painting will no longer be flesh and blood, but rejuvenated.
When the ancients talked about book theory, they had actually gone beyond this process of using the pen. So he only emphasized a sentence of "pen expensive around the left" without much explanation. So much so that now many people are confused.
In fact, many writers in the process of writing, each dot painting to take the contrarian trend, but they refuse to break the "toe pen" point.
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