What are the essentials of practicing calligraphy? It is often said that words, like words, can reflect a person's cultural accomplishment, temperament and sentiment. Calligraphy can be said to be one of the oldest existing arts in the world, and practicing calligraphy can establish a correct aesthetic view. So what is the main point of practicing calligraphy?

What are the essentials of practicing calligraphy? 1 The first rule is horizontal and vertical.

First of all, "horizontal and vertical" is not the definition of math class. People's visual habit is that the wireframe tilted to the right makes us feel "flat". Therefore, when people write horizontal paintings, they are generally skewed to the upper right corner, so that the words written like that look "flat" and straight.

The sorting association in the middle of horizontal painting is:

1, in the case of two horizontal graphs, the upper part is short and the lower part is long;

2. The order of three horizontal paintings should be "one up, two levels and three lows", and the parallel planes are equidistant, with the shortest middle horizontal plane and the most bottom horizontal plane;

3. Several horizontal paintings are juxtaposed, parallel to each other, equidistant and mixed.

This can best reflect the harmonious relationship between horizontal paintings. The three brothers have seniority, courtesy, fair spacing and harmony. Secondly, "vertical" should be straight. "Straight" is very strict and cannot be tilted.

Liu Gongquan said: "Hold the pen in your heart, and the regular expression in your heart is correct." . Integrity is the noble quality of a modest gentleman. People who write correctly are usually very attentive to others. Because it is easy to write a word well, it is really not easy to write every word persistently.

In the case of writing vertical long characters, such as the middle of the characters, the words "around" and "moon" below the characters, the vertical drawings on both sides must be vertical and downward, and cannot be tilted. The pictures below are vertical paintings on both sides of "wood, son, vessel and residence" and vertical paintings in the middle of "quantity".

What are the essentials of practicing calligraphy? Hold your pen steadily.

The first move is through the pen of the seal script practice center.

Practice your hands before practicing calligraphy, that is, your hands can control the writing brush well before you can start practicing calligraphy. Many people do it backwards, so after practicing for a long time, their hands are still shaking and they can't hold the brush as they please.

The best way to practice pen stability is to practice seal script, because the lines of seal script are very long, which can train the symmetry of structure. The lines require three-dimensional fullness, and the practice proves that the effect is very good. Specific training methods can refer to an article I wrote before. The words of a scholar who has never studied seal script and an eternal layman reveal the secret of seal script.

The key point of practicing calligraphy is to train the center to use the pen, because the center is the most important and difficult to master. Seal script is to require the center to use the pen, which can strengthen the foundation of the center to use the pen, or it can be said that the center to use the pen is the basic skill of calligraphy.

The structure should be accurate.

The second trick is to practice knots.

In calligraphy, the technique of detail is to knot words in addition to using a pen, so we should train the ability to knot words after learning the pen control in the center.

The training structure should be accurate, and nothing else is allowed, but this accuracy is not only neat, but also neat in the beginner stage, which can be trained by Jia Qiang's seal script mentioned above.

Another meaning of "accuracy" is to seek fairness in danger, just as Sun said: Beginners should seek fairness in distribution, and know that fairness is the right way to pursue danger. This time, Jia Qiang recommended Da Zhuan, Cao Li or Mi Fei's running script training, and the effect was very good.

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The third trick is to be hard on yourself and work hard on calligraphy. Calligraphy theory is needed, but practice is more important. After knowing the method, the rest is hard training.

How hard is it? Jia Qiang summed up four methods, which are timing, fixing posts, quantifying and fixing points.

Timing is the first factor to ensure your time. No matter how good the secret is, it will be useless if you don't arrange time to practice your handwriting. The idea of fixing posts is not to chop and change, but to make up your mind to read a book thoroughly. Quantification is to ensure the amount of practice every day. Jia Qiang suggested writing at least 100 words every day. Fixed-point writing is the best place to practice writing, so it's easy to get started. Otherwise, when you want to write, you have to spread a felt brush and sometimes it will be delayed because of inertia.

What are the essentials of practicing calligraphy? First, you must have a strong desire to write well.

Einstein once said, "Interest is the best teacher". As long as you are interested in anything, you are half successful, and practicing calligraphy is no exception. First of all, we must establish an idea that it is not that others want to write well, but that I want to write well. If you are not interested for a while, then cultivate it slowly. If you want to write with so many benefits, you will have the desire to practice your handwriting well.

Second, understand the basic knowledge of learning hard pen calligraphy.

Before practicing writing, we should know some basic knowledge:

Spare tools: plain white paper, pen, ballpoint pen, blue-black or carbon ink, etc.

2. Pen-holding method: three fingers hold the pen, thumb and forefinger hold the pen, middle finger rests on the bottom of the pen, mainly thumb, forefinger and middle finger hold the pen, ring finger and little finger gently rest on the bottom of the middle finger, the place where three fingers hold the pen is about 1 inch away from the pen tip, and the pen is about 45 degrees away from the paper;

3, writing posture: sitting posture, head straight, body straight, arms open, feet safe.

Third, "reading, copying, presenting, reciting, meaning and using" is the only way to learn calligraphy.

"Reading" means reading posts. what are you reading? The method of writing, the method of writing, the appearance and overall composition of words, etc. , should grasp the characteristics of the post and the image characteristics of the text. Form a certain impression in your mind. I often read posts, and I often take them out when I have nothing to do.

"Imitation" means copying copybooks, that is, covering them with transparent white paper to describe them, which is what we usually call tracing red.

"Pro" means pro-posting, that is, putting the post aside and practicing according to the writing of the post while watching it. It's best not to look at pictures and write pictures, but to look at words and write whole words. Hui Renyun: "The book is easy to get the meaning written by the ancients, the book is easy to get the position of the ancients, the book is easy to enter, and the book is easy to forget. "

Sticking is the most important and commonly used method to learn calligraphy. It can be said that learning calligraphy is temporary, and without temporary, there is no success of calligraphy. You should also compare your own words with the words on the post, compare the shape, length, size, pen, knot and appearance of the words, and see what is different. You can improve it next time.

"Back" means back. After a period of temporary writing, the words we learned to write will have some memories in our minds, so we should try not to read the copybook and be able to memorize the beautiful words on it. If there is a certain degree of difficulty at first, it means that the kung fu of reciting the post is not at home, so we should continue to spend our time writing it carefully until we can recite it. Success is not far away unless you can face it.

"Meaning" is the process of meaning generation and re-creation. When you can face it, you should integrate your thoughts, understanding, interests and personality cultivation into the book, re-create, and finally go your own way to form your own calligraphy style, otherwise it looks like someone else's things, which the ancients called "book slaves."

"Use" means to apply it to our daily life, study and work after a period of study. If you write a word after practicing today, you will use it in your homework, writing letters and writing articles tomorrow.

We should completely get rid of the bad writing habits before and write according to a new set of writing habits. If you just practice writing according to copybooks and write according to your original habits, you will never make progress.

Fourth, about learning hard pen calligraphy.

(a), to avoid seeing things differently, should be single-minded.

Doing anything is taboo, and learning hard pen calligraphy is no exception. Many beginners of calligraphy, like today's "two kings", will be in Yan Zhenqing tomorrow, and they will study Mi Fei and Su Dongpo in a few days.

Changing one's mind and not focusing on one's goals is a taboo in learning books, and it is also the fundamental reason why many learners often stick to their posts, delay progress and finally learn nothing. So be sure to choose a post you like, and then write honestly. It doesn't hurt to write other posts after learning eight points.

(2), avoid "one exposure and ten cold", you insist.

Wei, a master of calligraphy, told some friends who are beginners of calligraphy that practicing calligraphy is like catching a cold and having a fever. If you are interested, practice for a period of time, sometimes you don't write for ten days and a half months. Therefore, it is definitely not good to "fish for three days and dry the net for two days". You should practice for an hour or two every day without interruption. If you travel sometimes, you can also bring a post to read.

(3) Correctly understand the "plateau phenomenon".

The so-called plateau phenomenon is the phenomenon that I feel that my handwriting has improved. After practicing for a while, I feel no progress, but I feel worse than before. Some people are pessimistic and disappointed when they encounter this phenomenon. First of all, they feel sorry for themselves. Sometimes you just change jobs or stop practicing.

You know, the reason for these phenomena is that your appreciation level has improved. As the saying goes, "the eye is superior but the eye is inferior", which is not retrogression, but progress. In this case, you can only continue to practice closely to make your kung fu reach the level of eye appreciation.