Pen song ink dance to learn calligraphy
Author: Liu Zhengnian
I published an article in "Xiaoxiang Original Home" entitled "Hanmo Piaoxiang Calligraphy Exhibition". It is the result of all teachers and students learning calligraphy in our Shenzhen Luohu Huangbei Xinyi Community Calligraphy Class, and the meticulous teaching of Chen Ruiting, a national third-level calligrapher in Ouyang Inquiry Calligraphy.
Today is the first day of the May Day labor holiday, I took the title of "Pen Song, Ink and Dance Calligraphy" as the title, and wrote a bit of my beginner's book Ouyang Inquiry and Zhao Mengfu. Although this song is not loud, this ink dance is not graceful. However, under the teaching of the calligraphy teacher, who taught him by example, who drew a heart little by little, and who always cared about it, all the students in our calligraphy class reached the level of being decent and being able to write on the wall. Some students also came out with a study album and a book...
Teacher Chen has led our calligraphy class to learn European characters for four semesters. A total of 1,600 people from Xinyi Community and surrounding communities participated in learning European characters. We studied the Ouyang Inquiry Book "Jiucheng Palace" post.
The Jiucheng Palace is a masterpiece of Ouyang Qing's calligraphy, which was erected in Present-day Linyou County, Shaanxi Province, in April of the sixth year of Tang Zhenguan (632 AD). The stele is seven feet 4 inches high and three feet 6 inches wide, and is divided into 24 lines and 5 crosses, and the full text is 1108 characters. When Ouyang Inquiry wrote this stele, at the age of seventy-five, the art of calligraphy reached the point of pure fire, becoming an important milestone in the history of Chinese calligraphy. Its penmanship is characterized by both square circles, strong and steep, and has the penmanship of Han Li and Beibei. The companion is unique, rigorous and dignified, calm and simple. Seek dynamic balance in the middle of the flat and dangerous. Yan is tightly pulled out of the group, relaxed and relaxed, and achieves an incomparable spatial structural beauty. "Jiucheng Palace" has a unique wind god, not flattering, not humble, not profane, and indeed a good model for learning calligraphy.
Teacher Chen taught us: There are two points to remind beginners of learning Ou Kai:
First, master the European square more than the circle, the square has the key to the circle with the pen. The square of the portal pen refers to the square pen that appears at the beginning, end, turn, and wave of the stroke; the circle refers to the round pen that does not reveal the protagonist and hides the front. The European body has both square and round pens, which are used in combination with squares and circles. For example, origami is square and dot painting is round. The vertical stroke is square, and the closing pen is generally very rounded. It should be noted that the square pen of the European body must be written calmly and fully, and the edges and corners must not be sharp.
Second, accurately grasp the characteristics of the correct character in this risk, pingzheng is the most basic requirement of the script, and the European character is of course also flat. However, the European characters pay attention to the correctness of the unrighteous, and pay attention to seeking the right in the dangerous structure.
The fourth semester of our calligraphy class started shortly after the beginning of the year, just in time for the severe situation of prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Shenzhen. At this time, the Zhao Mengfu Kaishu Class of the Elderly Evergreen University in the Huangbei Street Office was preparing to start school. Many of our classmates in Ouyang Inquiry Book Class transferred to Evergreen University. However, the epidemic was serious, and these two calligraphy classes were suspended at the behest of their superiors when they did not start for a long time. After the suspension, students are not allowed to gather for classes. The students of the European sports class continue to practice European characters at home, and post the words of the practice posts in the WeChat group of their classmates every day! And the calligrapher Zhong Tiehuan, who taught Zhao Mengfu font, took the lead in taking a calligraphy online class in Shenzhen, and the students followed Teacher Zhong in the online vibrato to write the Spring League Pro Zhao characters one by one! Teacher Zhong used gold powder on the red Spring Lian paper big book special book golden shining Zhao characters! With the rhythm in the vibrato, the students "smelled the pen and danced" on the practice rough paper! Students joked in Douyin that this is the highest realm in online classes...
Although we only gave a few classes in the classroom at Evergreen University, the students all read through the Zhao Mengfu calligraphy tutorial at home! I don't know how many times I have practiced the words on the "Tablet of Courage"!
The full name of the "Tablet of the Bold" is "The Monument of the Great Yuan Edict to the Longxing Temple, the Great Awakening Puci Guangzhao Godless Master", and the third year of Zhao Mengfu's edict was written in the third year of the Yuan Yanyou (1316). Length 33.6 cm, width 166 cm, paper, with silk bar. The post is written in one go, the dot painting is pure, and there is no slackness in the stroke. The whole passage is basically in italics, even interline writing, and the upper and lower blood veins are connected, natural flow, all of which are the two kings of the right vein. Its glyphs are open and stretched, the dot painting is exquisite to composure, the spirit is complete, and the scattering is frank. Its calligraphy font is beautiful, the law is rigorous, and the spirit is radiant. Looking closely at the pen used, it can be said that it is intended to be the pen first, the pen to the law follows, the pen is sharp, the turn is frustrated, all have bones and bones, the shape is outside, gentle and elegant; carefully study the inside, iron painting silver hook. Zhao Mengfu attaches special importance to the use of brushes, "between a painting, it becomes undulating in the peak, and within a point, it is particularly frustrated by the millimang." Although the pen has no major ups and downs, it is quite varied, and it is subtly expressed in a peaceful state, which can be described as strange in peace. Its knot body takes the method of Li Beihai, the letter has a line book posture, the glyph flat square, the skimming opening, the structure is uniform, the degree of tightness, the line pen is not large, smooth and smooth, rich and gentle, in the regular solemnity to see the dashing and super-easy, since the early years of calligraphy can be compared, reached the realm of "essence of the deification", giving people a pleasing artistic acceptance. In addition, the ink used in the "Bile Stele" is basically a uniform ink method of suitable thickness and lightness, and the ink color is clear and mellow, perhaps because the inscription is needed, and it is a orthographic script, so it is not appropriate to show the change of ink color of thick and dry, fat, thin and old. The post has a high degree of calligraphy and is the best model for future generations to learn to write Zhao's calligraphy.
Calligraphy is endless! On the road to learning, if the boat does not advance against the current, it will retreat! Every day with pen and ink paper, practice words, practice words... I feel very happy! Therefore, I wrote this unwritten article called "Pen Song, Ink dance and calligraphy" to encourage calligraphy lovers.
About the Author
Liu Zhengnian, a native of Yueyang, Hunan. Same age as New China. A member of the Communist Party of China Graduated from the university of secretarial, basic theory of party and government, administrative management, plastic processing technology and so on. I've been to the countryside, I've carried guns, I've been into factories. After 21 years of secretarial work in the scientific research organs of the People's Liberation Army, the secretary of the regiment changed careers. After 20 years of propaganda work in central enterprises, cadres at the department level have retired. Love riddles, love calligraphy, love to write small articles. After retiring, he moved to Shenzhen and was a director of the Shenzhen Lantern Riddle Academic Committee.
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