Learning calligraphy is sometimes not too clever, and at the beginning I want to cut a short path, but I have no way out. Some book lovers are obsessed with cursive for decades, burning anointing and persevering, "sitting is empty, lying is painting", can not be said to be no effort, not diligent, but is no substantial improvement, the exchange found that the author often did not write a letter, or wrote has not passed, this may be the crux of bad cursive writing, not the root cause should also be the main reason.
Huang Tingjian said: "If you want to learn cursive writing, you must be authentic, and if you know the pen to the back, you can read cursive calligraphy, and cursive writing is not difficult to work." "You might as well turn around, put down your body, make up for the lesson of writing letters, and sharpen the knife without mistakenly cutting wood." "Cai Gen Tan" said: "Those who have been for a long time will fly high, and those who are the first to open will be Xie Du early." Cao Shenglin also took the road from Tang to Wei, advocating "first write calligraphy, then write calligraphy, and finally write cursive", and only after the age of 60 did he start writing cursive, becoming famous in one fell swoop and being famous all over the world.
Everyone's understanding of the traditional form of calligraphy is different, but the understanding of the origin of calligraphy should be consistent. Zhao Mengjie said: "It is not easy to use a pen for eternity. "Learning the script can enable beginners to understand and master the most basic composition of pen and ink language, correctly understand and skillfully use the strokes and rules of strokes such as positive side, hidden dew, frustration, light and heavy, astringent, curved and straight, and turning, cultivate regular steps, rigorous and prudent logical thinking, and point painting kung fu with a degree of beginning and end, and exercise good pen control ability."
Therefore, the script not only allows us to grasp the basic glyph structure, but also allows us to save a rich experience of using the pen. It is an ideal introductory style for beginners, and it is also an indiscriminate pursuit of cursive writing.
Of course, in history, there are many volumes of calligraphy and literature, and there are many sweats and cattle, so where to start should have a clear idea and scientific planning. From the perspective of the success stories and development of the past, we should still choose to start with Tang Kai for good.
As Liang Song said in his "Treatise on Learning Books": "The study of books must be near the Tang Tablet, when it is extremely strong, and then returned to the Jin people, then the shen yun has its own backbone, otherwise it is round and soft, and it will be written as a weak word." However, Tang Kaizhong especially took Chu body as the first choice, and Qin Wenjin had clouds in the Qing Dynasty: "Chu Dengshanshu, looks like Luo Qi Chanjuan, and looks like a copper Ke Tiegan." This monument is particularly graceful and elegant, and the waves are like gossamer. Can pass out the subtleties of the turn one by one, the essence of Mole, for the crown of the Tang dynasty. ”
Chu Suiliang was a Tang dynasty man at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, and he also held important positions such as Qi Julang, during which Tang Taizong collected a large number of Wang Xi's Fa-ti to be identified by Chu Suiliang, and at the same time participated in sorting out the authentic works of Zhong Xuan and Wang Xi hidden in the Inner Palace. It can be said that Chu Suiliang is the first Tang Dynasty calligrapher who has seen the most authentic works of Wang Xizhi, he is well versed in Wang's penmanship and posture, and directly inherits the demeanor of the Jin people, forming his own trend of thin, hard, clean and sloppy.
Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan and other Tang Dynasty calligraphers all found their own "kinetic energy" and "nourishment" in the Chu body, and completed the initial original accumulation. Yan Zhenqing directly took the fa Chu Suiliang, and then the horse was the first to look at, shouzheng to achieve change, and suddenly achieved his own solemn and solemn artistic characteristics, realized the personalized style pursued by his own calligraphy, and became a generation of models. At the same time, the Chu body belongs to the category of Dakai, and Mrs. Wei said: "Beginners must first learn big books, and they must not be small." ”
Ming Fengfang's "Children's Study Book" also said: "The order of learning books must first be written in the law, and the law must first be written in large characters." In particular, it is proposed to develop towards the thesis, especially the "two kings" (in fact, almost no one in the past generations of grass masters can bypass the "two kings"), and Chu Body is the only choice. Because almost none of the "Two Kings" have survived, it is wise to use the Chu body to expose the "Two Kings" penmanship and the True Pulse of Jin Yun.
Wang Xuzhou's "On the Leftovers of the Book" said: "The Wei and Jin people's books, one positive and one bias, vertical and horizontal changes, lack of paths, Tang people into the rules, there are doors to find, Wei and Jin wind flow, all changes are exhausted, but to learn Wei and Jin must enter from Tang to have a portal." "It makes sense. First write the "Sacred Order of the Wild Goose Pagoda", dignified and beautiful, simple and quiet, easy to get started, and then write the "Big Character Yin Rune Sutra", sharp and strong, langrun and smooth, and the rich writing rhyme lays the foundation and creates conditions for the future transition to cursive writing.
In other words, if you have no intention of developing in the future, but only want to focus on the script, the chu body is also a good point of strength. Therefore, the chu body can be used as the basis for the root of the script, and the entry can be used as the beginning of the cruising grass, which is a strongly malleable and inclusive calligraphy.
What needs to be explained is that the true books, letters, and main books described by the ancients are relatively vague and broad, which is a different title for each historical period, and what we usually call the letters actually include the true books and the main books, which evolved from the late Han Dynasty, and the "square shapes, straight strokes" are collectively called the letters, so in a broad sense, the letters also include seals, Wei tablets, etc., and in a narrow sense, the letters specifically refer to Tang Kai.
But no matter what, at the beginning of the study of books, starting from a more regular and dignified script should be the right way. Of course, there are thousands of paths to learning calligraphy, and there is no absolute unified standard, but it is necessary to find some relatively mature regular methods that are recognized by history and widely used.