First, the heat
The first difficulty in writing this "summer" word is that we must make a choice between stroke and which stroke is the main stroke of the whole word.
From the rubbing, it seems that the length and thickness of these two strokes are comparable, and this creates a certain confusion in our choice.
When making this choice, we should clearly realize that the stroke is horizontally stretched from the trend point of view, while the stroke is biased towards the vertical stretch. Therefore, the glyphs with these two strokes as the main pen will show obvious stylistic differences.
A basic feature of the Ouyang Inquiry Letter is that it is hard and clean, and if we choose to use the pen as the main pen, the effect of the written word may deviate from this visual effect:
This is a "summer" character in Chu Suiliang's "Sacred Order of the Wild Goose Pagoda". Obviously, he is the main stroke, and in order to highlight the status of this main stroke, the stroke not only shortens the length, compared with Ouyang Inquiry's book, the stroke of this word is also deflected in a clockwise direction, that is, it is "lying flat".
As a result, the writing effect is very wide, and this is obviously different from Ouyang Qian's style. From this inference, when we write the "summer" character of the "Jiucheng Palace Monument", we can only use strokes as the main brush.
Another detail that requires our attention is that there are two "days" in the word "summer", and these two "days" are different.
The upper "day" knot should be tight, and the lower "day" should be properly relaxed, specifically, that is, the left and right verticals should be misplaced, and the position of the right vertical is significantly lower than the left vertical.
Second, hu
Three, nine
Fourth, into
The character "Cheng" appears more frequently in the "Jiucheng Palace Stele", and the style of each "Cheng" character also has slight differences. As far as the reasons for these differences are concerned, I personally think that an important change lies in the angle of the "Go" hook.
Like this "Cheng" character, its "Ge" hook is biased vertically, and the horizontal painting that is horizontally stretched together will show a stable posture.
If we make a little fine-tuning of the "Ge" hook and the horizontal painting that matches it in a counterclockwise direction, then the "Ge" hook is "put down" (and the trend of the horizontal painting shoulder is more obvious), just like a Wusheng holding the rear handle of the red gun and bending the gun head to the ground, which is a form of stronger tension.
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The text | Prince of Jin
Typography | cream belly
The picture | Jiucheng Palace Monument & Jin Gongzi Original