If the book is natural, it is necessary to prepare muscles and bones, thick blood and old bones, muscles and flesh, and the posture is strange, which can be described as beautiful. - Modern times. Kang Youwei "Guangyi Boat Shuangji"
Words are like people, but flesh and bones, spiritual veins, eight can be prepared for people, and a line of corpse ears. - Qing. Wang Shu "On the Words of Teng"
Books must have God, air, bones, blood, flesh, and the five are one, and they will not become books. ——Northern Song Dynasty. Su Shi "On Books"
At the beginning of learning, it is advisable to first muscles and bones, and if the muscles and bones do not stand, what is attached to the meat. - Don. Xu Hao's "On Books"
Part of Xu Hao's "Monk Monument of the Void".
The wind god has flesh in his bones. The old man has bones in the flesh. Those who are interested in the pool should distinguish them with discernment. - Qing. Zhu Hetang "Linchi Heart Solution"
The bones and body of the first rite are fully rejuvenated, with skin and blood, strength and tendons....... The silk comes and goes, and the veins are distinct. - "Detailed Explanation of Calligraphy"
The bones are preserved, and the moist additions. - Don. Sun Guoting's Book of Books
All writing, no matter what the body, must be muscles, bones, flesh and blood, muscles and bones, bones, bones, blood, water, flesh, ink, edge, pen, water, water. - Qing. Bao Shichen's Anon of Wu
Stand with muscles and bones, and polish with expression. ——Tang Zhanghuai, "Theory of Words"
The bone of the word, the bone of the lower part of the big finger is also; The tendon of the word, the pen is also; The flesh of the word, the pen is also. Words are born in ink, ink is born in water, and those who are water are also the blood of words. ——Yuan. Chen Yizeng's "Keys to Hanlin"
People are handy in books, and they come in a thousand forms, but they are said to be neutral, fat, and thin. If the book is also, the degree of shortening and fitting, the balance of light and heavy, the yin and yang are appropriate, and the rigidity and softness are mutually beneficial. ——Ming. Xiang Mu "Calligraphy Elegant Words"
The fat word must have bones, and the thin word must have meat. ——Northern Song Dynasty. Huang Tingjian
The bones and tendons are planted, the tendons are attached to the bones and linger, the bones are shortened, the tendons are fat and thin, the two are not separated, and the role is therefore divided into muscles and bones are not born in the pen, and the pen can lose the benefits; Flesh and blood are not born of ink, but ink can increase and decrease. The meat is bright and rich, and the tendons are heavy and moist. The fat is more charming, and the moist is colorful. - Qing. "Book Raft"
The husband's horse tendon is more meat and less meat is the top, and the meat is more and less tendon is the bottom, and the same is true for books. - Don. Zhang Huaiguan "Commenting on Storytelling and Medicine and Stones"
The book has flesh and blood, and the predecessors have prepared it, or is it more eloquent? The cover is divided into four, and the combination is one. In short, the tendons come out of the arms and wrists, the arms and wrists must be rotated, and the tendons are born when they are rotated; If the bone comes from the finger and the fingertip is not solid, the bone is difficult to form; Blood is ink, and ink must be adjusted; The flesh is a pen, and the pen is round and healthy. The blood can be gorgeous, and the posture is outstanding; However, flesh and blood are born in the bones and muscles, and if the bones do not stand, the flesh and blood cannot be proud. Therefore, the book puts the muscles and bones first. - Qing. Zhu Luzhen "The Essentials of Learning"
Therefore, it has learned its coarseness at the beginning, but has not obtained its refinement; Those who are too slow are stagnant and have no tendons, and those who are too urgent are sick and boneless; If the side tube is damaged, the wonton will be slow and meaty; Vertical and straight edges, dry and exposed. - Qing. Feng Wu "Fingers"
Today, I am in the book of the ancients, but I do not learn its situation, but seek its backbone, and the situation is self-generated. Whatever I do, I will do it first, and I can achieve it with results. - Don. Li Shimin's "Brushwork"
Soft is graceful, and rigid is beautiful. - Don. Zhang Huaiguan "Commenting on Storytelling and Medicine and Stones"
The color of the eagle falcon and the one who flies to the sky, the bone is strong and fierce; Yu Zhai prepares color and soars for a hundred steps, the meat is abundant and the strength is heavy. If the algae is bright and soaring, the phoenix of the book. - Song. Zhu Wenchang "Continuation of the Book"
The bones are rich and the flesh is moist, and it is wonderful and psychic. - Qing. Feng Wu "The True Story of Calligraphy"
Restraint is lacking, and there is little release, pure bones are not flattering, pure meat is weak, less ink is astringent, and more ink is dull. ——Emperor Wu of Liang, "Another Answer"
Where there is bone, there must be flesh, and if there is reality, there must be nothingness. Otherwise, it will be majestic and close to sinister, and there will be no ethereal and ethereal momentum. - Qing. Sheng Dashi "Records of Lying in the Mountains and Streams"
Calligraphy tends to be strong and strong, and it is the most taboo. - Qing. Liang Xian's "Theory of Learning"
The pen is strong, but also strong and powerful, not out of the muscles and bones, which makes people see dazzling. - Qing. Hua Lin "The Secret of the Southern Sect"
Those who are good at writing are boneless, and those who are not good at writing are meaty; Those with many bones and micro-flesh are called tendon books, and those with many flesh and micro-bones are called ink pigs; Those who have more strength and abundant tendons are sacred, and those who are weak and have no tendons are sick. ——Jin. Wei Shuo "Pen Array"
Make all your strength, as for sinking into the bones, the pen can be harmonious. And it is not rigid or soft, and the changes are out. Therefore, those who know peace, the depth of strength is not indulgence. - Qing. Wang Shu "On the Words of Teng"
Thin and explicit, fat and exposed, not good; Thin does not show bones, fat does not show flesh, but it is the best. ——Ming. Xiang Mu "Calligraphy Elegant Words"
If the painting is promoted, the word is horizontal, and if the painting is sparse, the glyph is slow; Restraint is lacking, and release is less; Pure bones are not charming, pure meat is weak, less ink is astringent, more ink is stupid, and all are the same. ——Xiao Yan, "A Treatise on Tao Seclusion"
But the people of the world take anger as their muscles and bones, and they don't know whether they are angry or not. ——Northern Song Dynasty. Mi Fu "Haiyue Mingyan"
The essence of the book is unified in the word "backbone". The backbone is said to be the hole, the middle is the hole, and the side is the hole. Dongda is self-sparse, dense and fat and thin are good, otherwise they are all sick.
Words have the power of courage, and bones are also; There is the power of forbearance, tendon also. Use the bone to get the bone, so take the finger to the truth; Use tendons to get tendons, so take the wrist suspension. - Qing. Liu Xizai's Art Overview
The word should be bones, the flesh must be wrapped in tendons, the tendons must hide the meat, the paste is beautiful and runsheng, the layout is stable and good, the danger is not strange, the old is not dry, and the moist is not fat. The perverted noble form is not expensive and bitter, bitterness gives birth to anger, and anger gives birth to blame. The noble form is not expensive, the painting is into the painting, the painting is vulgar, and the word disease is also. ——Northern Song Dynasty. Mi Fu "Haiyue Mingyan"
The life of all characters will be soft and moist, and their death will be hard and dry, and so will the grass and trees. If it is soft and moist, it is fat and thin, and if it is hard and dry, it is long and short. Therefore, the straightness is in the temperament, and the form is reached. Roundness and flattening are in the form and nature, and in the temperament. - Qing. Bao Shichen's Anon of Wu
Tang Taizong said: When I was young, I watched the formation, that is, I knew the strength and weakness. Today, the ancients do not learn their situation, but seek their backbone and obtain their backbone, and the situation is self-generated. - Qing. Liang Zhangju "Learning Words"
Learning books is like learning boxing. Those who learn boxing's body method, footwork, technique, twisting tendons to bones, and kicking must be extremely tendonous. Make the internal air ventilated and the external strength out, so that it is said to copy the ancient sticker, the stroke point, will be more than half longer than the ancient sticker, but can do its best to turn its mind also. To learn the fist has become, the real qi is oxygenated, its bones can be turned, its tendons are straight, although the strong enemy, can be a finger between the inches if there is nothing to do. The same is true for calligraphers. - Qing. Bao Shichen's Anon of Wu