Zhong Xuan's "Declaration Table"
The question of the basic skills of calligraphy is a topic that people often talk about.
One of the most common formulations is to write it well, so that the basic skills are solid. The reason for this is probably from what the ancients said: "If you want to learn cursive writing, first pass through the script." The meaning of this sentence of the ancients is: If you want to learn cursive writing, you must first understand the legal principles of cursive writing. In a practical sense, this statement is very correct. Because many of the legal principles of cursive writing (more precisely, xingshu) are derived from cursive writing, cursive writing has a very close "blood" relationship with cursive writing.
However, this sentence only refers to a progressive relationship between xuekai and xuexingcao, a logical relationship between one and two, and is not a question of basic skills.
If we judge according to the belief that "the letter is the basic skill of cursive writing", then it can be determined that "the letter of letter is the basic skill of the letter" and "the seal book is the basic skill of the book". It can also be inferred that "the big seal is the basic skill of the small seal" and "the oracle bone is the basic skill of the golden text". If you push it further, what is the basic skill of oracle bones? This is clearly illogical.
"Mao Gongding" rubbing (partial)
In addition, the saying that "only when the script is written well can the basic skills be considered good" is also very biased.
According to this, those who wrote "Mao Gongding" and "Scattered Disc" certainly had no basic skills, and people in that period did not know what Kai was. Obviously, such a formulation is also extremely unscientific. Often in practice, we find that people who write well in cursive writing may not be able to write well. People who write well in cursive writing may not be absolutely well written.
It can be said with certainty that no matter what kind of font, each has its own internal laws and methods, and after one font is practiced, it does not mean that other fonts can be self-sufficient without practice. Here, although there is a corresponding internal law between various fonts and various book styles that can be borrowed from each other, the laws and laws of their personality cannot be replaced by each other. It can also be said with certainty that specializing in one family cannot replace his family, and it is difficult to replace others by specializing in one.
Scattered plate inscription
So what is the basic skill of calligraphy? Therefore, the real basic skill of calligraphy is the performance of the comprehensive ability of the three skills of calligraphy, that is, the ability to control the brush, the ability to control the glyph, the ability to control the ink method, the ability to control the qi, and the ability to control the chapter. In short, the basic skill of calligraphy is: "the calligrapher's ability to control the comprehensive level of penmanship, ink, and chapter techniques."
Italics are the culmination of the development of calligraphy and are the most practical typefaces available today. In terms of calligraphy appreciation, art appreciation based solely on calligraphy is biased, and learning to understand more fonts should be the prerequisite for the appreciation of calligraphy art.
With such a high level of cognition and thinking, you will understand that a person with a strong ability to be the poster is far higher than a person who can only write in italics; you will also understand that it is not necessarily a good thing for a person to learn calligraphy and have been obsessed with calligraphy.
Although the script is very important, when talking about the concept of basic skills, such as evaluating a person whose skills are very solid, it is accurate to say that "his ability to post and express is very solid."
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