The difference between people and people is actually the difference in thinking.
You think you're doing it perfectly, but people who are one dimension higher than you will feel childish when they see what you're doing.
Calligraphy is also like this, you feel that your handwriting is very good, but in the eyes of the master, it is no different from the writing of primary school students who have just recognized the words.
The dimensions are different, the angle of looking at the problem will be different, and the depth of looking at the problem will be different.
Where is the dimension of Wang Xizhi's writing higher than yours? In this dimension, what kind of brushwork does he hide?
It's a little hard, I'll tell you in detail. After understanding, the confusion of the previous study of the script is not a matter.
Learning Chinese characters is not the same as thinking about writing calligraphy. We learned Chinese characters in school, starting from strokes and headings.
In this kind of thinking, the angle of you looking at Chinese characters is scattered, and Chinese characters are composed of dot paintings. The process of writing is the process of piling up dot painting.
Let's look at Wang Xizhi's thinking again, he is a "connected" thinking, the surface of the strokes, in Wang Xizhi's eyes is a set of sets, a group of groups, rather than a single.
Thinking differently, the calligraphy written will be completely different. For example, if you also write a letter, Wang Xizhi's letter will be "alive", and your letter will be very dull.
Of course, it is not enough to have thinking, but also to have penmanship as an aid.
Sun Guoting has an important word in the "Book Spectrum", "making the turn", Wang Xizhi used this "make the turn" brushwork, but when writing the letter, this kind of brushwork was hidden, note that it was only hidden, not disappeared.
What is the make-up method?
Sun Guoting explained in the "Book Genealogy" that "the kind of making is also the kind of vertical and horizontal involvement; turning, saying that the hook and loop plate is also."
Make, is a continuous linear action; turn, is a continuous arc action. In cursive writing, dot paintings are connected by threads. In the letter, it is hidden, transformed into aerial movements, but does not disappear.
To give an example:
The strokes are not connected, but the action is continuous, but the action is done in the air. The right half of the word above is a continuous "make", a linear motion.
When Wang Xizhi wrote the right half, he wrote it down with a continuous action of making the stroke, so when you look at this word, even if there is a disconnection, the feeling is connected.
This section summarizes:
Doing things requires thinking, and writing requires thinking. Wang Xizhi's calligraphy is good, in addition to his good brushwork, there is a higher than ordinary people's thinking, but also a very important aspect.
Hope this section helps you, thank you.
Original Author: Inkworm