Mr. Liu Hongbiao, former vice chairman of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, a national first-class artist, and an expert enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, once talked about the problem of learning calligraphy and mastering penmanship in calligraphy lectures. Mr. Liu Hongbiao believes that we are all learning calligraphy, especially when we have been laying the foundation since childhood, teachers have emphasized the need to learn calligraphy, including myself. I write cursive, but I also wrote calligraphy, and now I am reading the calligraphy I learned when I was a child, a lot of the strokes are wrong, if I start again now, I think the best way to learn the calligraphy is to learn the ink book, Zhiyong's "Thousand Characters of the Book of Letters".
The calligraphy of the Jin Dynasty, represented by Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi, is considered to be the source of Chinese calligraphy, as long as the calligraphers who take the right path, they all learn Wei and Jin calligraphy, even if they are the four masters of the Kaishu, Ouyang Qing, Liu Gongquan, Yan Zhenqing, Zhao Ziang, without exception! But many people learn wang Xizhi has one of the biggest problems, that is, the penmanship can not pass the level. Some people have been writing for decades and actually linger outside the door of calligraphy, so it is very important to solve the problem of brushwork.
Penmanship is an important criterion for measuring whether a calligrapher is professional or amateur, many people have written a lifetime of words, and also call themselves calligraphers, in fact, penmanship has not been solved, why? Because there is no reasonable brushwork as a support, it will always linger outside the hall of calligraphy. Wang Duo, a master of calligraphy in the Ming Dynasty, summed up the mystery of learning calligraphy and has a saying: "Books do not enter the Jin, and eventually enter the wild road"! Can't get into the promotion? It is very important that you have mastered the Jinren penmanship.
So, how to solve the problem of brushwork? If from the perspective of the Kaishu, Zhiyong's "Thousand Characters of the Book of Letters" is a particularly good model, he is a pure Stroke of Wang Xizhi, and the glyph structure is also written more standardized, if we go through a period of time and two years to deeply study Zhi Yong's "Thousand Characters of the Book of Letters", we can basically grasp the laws of Wang Xizhi's set of brushwork, which is a way.
Mr. Liu Hongbiao also said that in the books of the ancients, the problem of brushwork is often discussed, but most of them are metaphors, and it is said that the clouds and mountains are foggy, making people unpredictable, why? Because the penmanship is not easy to express in words, then for the brushwork of the ancients, you can only detect the clues from the ink. You see how others write it, you know the law of this pen, so ink is a very important thing. And Tang Kai is basically an inscription, you can't see the ink, you can't see the brushwork, which is why I advocate learning Zhiyong's "Thousand Characters of the Book of Letters".
Liu Hongbiao: Don't blindly learn Tang Kai, copy Zhiyong's thousand-character text, in order to get the true transmission of Wang Xi's pen method. What do you netizens think? Do you think it makes sense? Welcome to leave a message to communicate.