Generally speaking, writing small characters is very different from writing large characters, and its principle is that writing large characters should be close and seamless, and writing small characters must be more than enough to make them wide.
Su Shi Dakai
Su Shi small print
That is to say: writing large characters should be as precise as small characters; and writing small characters should be able to have a large character like cramped, so the ancients said that "to make a big word should be like a small word, and to be a small word should be like a big word." And Su Dongpo's treatise has the fine saying that "large characters are difficult to be dense and seamless, and small characters are difficult to be more than enough". What do you mean by all of this?
Because we usually write large characters, we think that the status (area) is wide and can be sprinkled at will, and the result is that the font becomes loose and empty. Writing small characters is just the opposite, because the ground space is too small, and if you are worried that you can't write, the more inevitable you will try to shrink, often too much, but it will become curled up. These are all natural psychological phenomena, very easy to offend. Therefore, Su Gong's sentence "it is difficult to be big and small" is precisely for this kind of look, and it is even more experienced.
Zhong Xuan Xiaokai
The center of gravity of writing small characters and the combination of strokes are not much different from large characters. As for the pen, it is slightly different. The small character pen should be round, beautiful, straight, and neat; the large character should be majestic and heavy. Use the reverse edge (Hidden Edge) when writing in large characters, and use the back edge when closing the pen; when writing in small characters, you do not need to use the reverse front, you should use the sharp edge, and you should use a pen or a pen when closing the pen.
For example, writing a horizontal, starting from the pen or tip and closing the pen is round; writing a vertical, starting pen or slightly, closing the pen is sharp; skimming pen is starting or fat and closing the pen thin: the pen is starting or thin and closing the pen fat, but also to the left to the right slightly arc, the stroke is vivid and sensual; the point wants to be sharp and round, the pick wants to be sharp and sharp, the bend wants to be inside and outside the circle, and the hook is half curved and half straight. The pen is flexible and cannot be limited. Especially the whole text, to be different, but coordinated, a line of writing, staggered, but has been on a line, if it is naturally stringed, look like a string of pearl necklaces, radiant.
Xiao Kai's Huang Ting Jing
Small characters are the necessary calligraphy for daily use in ancient times, and in the past, when the examination was taken, most of the people who read the papers read the words first, and then read the articles. If the word is not good, the article will be affected no matter how good it is. Chao Kao Zhuangyuan and Hanlin pay special attention to calligraphy. It is the small characters of Therefore, fanyuan and Hanlin, are exquisite.
Ordinary readers are also good at writing small characters. Nowadays, hard pens are prevalent, and there are not many people who write small characters with brushes, but using hard pens to write small letters has the obvious effect of doing more with less, so if you want to write hard pen words, you may wish to find a good small letter post and practice. It will be able to lay a solid foundation, benefit for life, and be exhausted.
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