Calligraphy and handwriting, many students have always been indistinguishable.
It is understandable that we learn to write under the teacher's whip, and knock it out one by one.
In our muscular consciousness, the written mind is ingrained.
If you don't believe it, if you try to write a word crookedly, your subconscious will do everything possible to tell you that you wrote crookedly, that this is wrong, and that you are going to be criticized......
This is the writing mindset.
And calligraphy can be written crookedly.
There is also the "Middle Palace" method that we highly respect, which is a typical thinking of writing standard characters.
Many of Wang Xizhi's words, you can't analyze them with this method at all.
In the picture above, you look at this character with a writing mind, and the character is written loosely. The middle palace method is also not used.
The ancients never used the Zhonggong method to write the structure, and the ancients used gestures to write the structure.
For example, when the ancients wrote this word, there were two gestures on the left and right in their minds, the left side was a group of horizontal and vertical gestures, and the right side was a vertical gesture.
As for how to combine these two gestures, it depends on the density and contrast of the words before and after.
For example, if this word is placed in a line, it is sparse and dense with the word "right", one black and one white, it looks good. You won't feel the scatteredness of the word "citation" at all.
You can't write this word without gestural thinking, because Zhonggong Compact doesn't allow you to write structure like this.
What is Gesture Thinking?
That is, you have to write in groups of dots, don't take it apart and arrange.
For example, in the picture above, there are three sets of gestures in red, yellow and blue (three horizontally, four vertically, and finally a polka dot).
The ancients actually wrote with little thought in these bells and whistles, in the words of Mi Fu, is a "brush", brush gestures.
You can use the action of "brushing" to write the word above.
Isn't it simple? Brush three times horizontally, four times vertically, and finally brush horizontally. The structural simplicity index is 99%.
The structure is formed under this very convenient momentum. Instead of arranging a middle palace, it was arranged.
Conclusion:
Using gestures to learn structure is as simple as it gets.
Because it is a continuous homeopathic action, such as Mi Fu's "brush" action, is a simple back and forth action, on the very complex structure, divided into several groups of gestures, simply brush out.
There is no need to arrange dot painting at all, arranging the middle palace is just a gesture of brushing according to the mood.
This kind of structure will be very smooth, up and down.
Use gestures to learn the structure, up and down, and the structure can be brilliant. The key is simplicity.
The complex structure is simplified with gestures, the great wisdom of the ancients.
This article was originally from the author's public account: brush calligraphy