First, "take the law on top", whose one is on top?
On the issue of calligraphy, an interesting phenomenon was found. The more simple the problem, the more people participate in reading and discussing, indicating that most people like calligraphy, but are unwilling to use their brains; the more profound and meaningful the problem, there are very few people reading and discussing, which also shows that people do not like to think and use their brains. And this question is precisely both simple and profound.
Faced with such a difficult problem as how to choose the calligraphy introductory Fa Ti, "taking the law from the top" seems to be a panacea, whoever opens a prescription, this sentence must be smashed in front, otherwise it is a quack doctor who does not understand calligraphy.
The origin of the phrase "take the law from above" has appeared in many ancient texts. Sun Tzu's Art of War says, "Seek it above you, get it in it; seek it, get it down; and if you ask for it, you will lose." Tang Taizong's "Emperor Fan" volume IV says: "Take the Fa from above, only for the middle." Take the law in the middle, so it is the bottom. ”
Yan Yu, a poetry critic of the late Song dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty, said in his "Canglang Poetry": "To learn from it, you can only get it; to learn from it, Si is the next." ”
Originally a strategic theory of military politics, it was later applied to the introductory selection of calligraphy.
But: traditional calligraphy, there are many genres; in the ancient classics, all kinds of calligraphy, which book style is the highest among the generations of calligraphers? Who's at the top?
The answer is probably basically the same: the Tang dynasty should not learn or even read (almost all of them are second- and third-rate, or even not into the stream); the top of the cursive writing is the second king, and the second king is actually one king, and among the great kings are the "Orchid Pavilion Order", "Holy Order", and "Seventeen Thesis". Or maybe it's the Book Score.
My observation, practice, reflection, comparison, and argument have concluded that this path is only halfway through. First, please come out with the words of an ancient man, and then explain why this road does not work.
Su Huanyuan's "On the Book of Brief Sayings" said: Learning from the books of the ancients, if you are not good at learning them, there are all abuses, and you must try your best to avoid them. Xue Zhong Wang (Zhong Xuan, Er Wang) must avoid the disadvantages of being sluggish and loose; Xue Zhiyong and Yu Boshi (Yu Shinan) must avoid the disadvantages of being thin and slow; Xue Ou Shu (Ouyang Inquiry) must avoid the disadvantages of thinness and weakness; Xue Xu Su Shu (Zhang Xu, Huai Su) must avoid the drawbacks of wildness; Learning Li Beihai (Li Yong) must avoid the drawbacks of dryness and thinness; Xue Su Shu (Su Shi) must avoid the disadvantages of being fat and thick, and learning Huang Shu (Huang Tingjian) must avoid the disadvantages of being a trembling; Xue Mi Shu (Mi Fu) must avoid the drawbacks of anger and zhang; And xue Zhao Shu (Zhao Mengfu) must avoid the disadvantages of being feminine and soft To learn Dong Shu (Dong Qichang), it is necessary to avoid the disadvantages of familiarity and slippage. Yu this language is not a disadvantage to the ancients. Later generations are not good at learning, and often have this drawback.
Without exception, you can fall into a pit, right?
Learning cursive writing, these well-known classic Dharma texts, how come they are not a good model for getting started?
The "Order of the Holy Teachings" is an engraving, unlike the "Orchid Pavilion Preface", the beginning of each stroke, the closing pen also retains a complex and dazzling thread, as well as a variety of different strokes into the pen, the stroke of the pen, the portrayal of the pen, the stroke, appear crisp and clean. But it's a collection of posters.
Partial part of the Order of the Holy Order
What happened to the collection of character posts? The collection of words is also the collection of books! The problem is the set of words.
First of all, the purpose of the collection of the Holy Order is to spread, and the logic associated with calligraphy is secondary; and from the condition, it is technically impossible to take into account this much; the key is that it is the same kind of characters collected from Wang Xizhi's calligraphy. That is, the glyphs remain basically the same size, the strokes basically remain the same thickness; the shape of the characters, as long as they are oblique, are artificially leveled.
If you look at Wang Xi's Codex, you will know that the words in the "Holy Order" are selected from one-tenth of them. In order not to look too incongruous, this is the only way.
Wang Xizhi's "Deshi Ti Ti"
If there is no certain foundation, the beginner will start with the "Holy Order" and "Orchid Pavilion Order", and there will be such a problem:
The "Holy Order" is often written as a "four-one work", that is, the glyphs are as large, the strokes are as thick, the ink color is as black (the engraving cannot see the speed of the pen, resulting in the same speed of the pen), the word spacing, the line spacing is the same. The work written, placed on the floor of the case, looks OK, and once it is hung, it will be nothing.
The Orchid Pavilion Preface is written as a stroke and draws glyphs. Even though it looks exactly like the original post, since ancient times, I have not seen a single person write a decent work in the tone of "Orchid Pavilion Preface". According to the tiger painting the cat, copying the original text of the "Orchid Pavilion Preface" is quite a few; but without this manuscript, even a single word cannot be written, or it is written out of nothing, and it abounds.
The Seventeen Theses, the Book Notation, one side and one circle, like two sides of a coin. As a beginner's practice style and a model for grass reading, they are impeccable. But, again, neither can be a chapter. The reasons for this are:
The ancient codex, the Seventeen Treatises, including the scrolls, the Book of Books. Either a small strip of paper, or only 26.5 cm wide and 900.8 cm long, disproportionately large.
The characteristics of small works are suitable for desk play, careful appreciation, people's attention is on details; before the Tang Dynasty, paper, is cooked paper, relatively rough, polished, waxed, very smooth and does not seep ink, brush is also very small hard, tools, writing materials, are just right for this kind of small character small works.
Partial of the Book Of Books
But why, since the Tang Dynasty, has there not been a single work in ancient times that is close to these two classic Fa-these two kinds of works with similar tones? An important reason is what Shi Tao said, "The cover must be interesting, and the big must be strong." The Inscription Wall Book of the Tang Dynasty evolved into the continuous grass of Zhang Xu and Huai Su, which changed out of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the vertical and horizontal of the Republic of China period, and the style of large-scale freehand writing without hesitation; the fundamental reason is the huge change in writing instruments, materials, and display conditions. From palming your hand to looking at local details up close, to hanging up and looking at everything from a distance, it is not the same thing at all.
If you copy the "Seventeen Theses", "Book Genealogy", (including the "Holy Order, Lanting Order") mode, written as a large banner, the middle hall, the inevitable result, is loose, thin, monotonous, the word does not press paper.
Then the conclusion is that by studying the above-mentioned Fa Ti, you can only learn its penmanship and calligraphy, and it is difficult to form a perfect chapter.
Second, who is good to learn?
Calligraphy, the most difficult is not the process of learning, the most difficult is to determine the direction. If someone had told me which direction was right and who was right, I might have solved 70% of the problems.
This problem, not only beginners, I have been in contact with, and many of the book masters who have already achieved fame have also been painful, confused, confused, brain-wrenching, and hair loss. For many beginners, including many calligraphers with considerable professional standards, at first everyone did not know that the road they took was only half a road, engaged, engaged, engaged for some years, and found that they could not go on at all, and there were more cases that needed to change course.
You just say, who is good to learn? Let's ask the ancients to talk about it first.
Feng Ban's Pure Bard Technique:
The book of the preschoolers starts from the posterity, and it has its portal.
To study books must be advocated by oneself, but it is not to fail to learn from the ancients.
These two sentences are the real tricks for learning calligraphy.
I will only talk about two points of impression here, and I dare not say that it is a conclusion.
1. A heavyweight scholar said that it is preferable to learn cursive writing, and to start with mi fu fa ti first.
The reason is that learning rice, penmanship, orthography, and chapters, its characteristics are obvious, easy to grasp, easy to get started, although it will also form a habit, but at least it is not easy for beginners to write listlessly, light and slippery, and there is no outstanding place. Since Mi Fu then chased up the Jin Tang and explored the Ming and Qing dynasties, there was no big obstacle. I fully share his views.
Part of the Seventeen Theses
2. Directly follow the modern people to get started.
After all, modern people are much simpler than the ancients; the pens, uses, paper, and format of the works are completely consistent. Borrow the crutches of contemporary people, stand up first, walk, and get on the road quickly, and then find the ancient people's door to go down to get the true scriptures. This road has been cleared by many people. For example, the beautiful calligrapher Fang Fang, who is a mess of fire, learned from the contemporary dragon Kaisheng. Others have been included in the national exhibition, and even won awards, are innumerable.
Those two Ertian who wrote Ouyang Inquiry were not also directly learning Er Shen (Shen Cang, Shen Du).
It is not difficult to understand, beginners, directly "take the law to the top", on the level of primary school students, directly study "Chu Ci", "Departure from the Troubles", three graves and five classics, directly on the highest, the top, the most difficult, and the modern various tools, different formats, one step in place, the idea is very good, but how about the effect, do not put a question mark.
3, directly from the ancients, of course, is also a good choice.
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