According to the Chinese interpretation, texture refers to the structural properties of a certain material, such as tough texture, exquisite texture, etc.;The second refers to the quality and aptitude of people, which can directly affect our sensory experience and impression. Specific to calligraphy, the texture of calligraphy refers to the quality, weight, strength, style, etc., generally speaking, the calligraphy should have flesh and bones, there are things in the pen, rich and full, is a real thing.
Su Dongpo said in "On Books": "Books must have spirit, qi, bones, flesh, and blood. "Ordinary people look at a handicraft, such as gold and silver, jade, porcelain, jewelry, etc., often evaluate its value of the first is to look at the texture of the material, if it is a withered branch and rotten wood, doped to make fake inferior materials, even if the appearance is beautiful, ingenious, its value must be greatly reduced. In terms of calligraphy works, the quality of paper and pen and ink is only one of the small proportions, and the master still writes good words on the cliff with a bald pen, and the key is to have something under the pen. The pen and ink are on the paper, first of all, to give people a sense of texture, weight, strength, can not be vain, ethereal, plausible, followed by the whole text, the connotation of the writer, qualifications, including the layout of the whole text, chapters. For example, the words of Huaisu, Zhang Xu, Wang Xizhi, Zhao Mengfu and others have a strong sense of texture and strong impact.
Li Si's "On the Use of the Pen" cloud: "The method of using the pen is to return in a hurry first, and then go back to the next time;."If the eagle looks at the passing away, the faith is natural and cannot be changed. Chen Yi's explanation of the texture of the pen: "The quality is the only center." These two sentences are explained in the vernacular that calligraphy wants to write with texture, the center of the pen is the first to bear the brunt, the center is the bone of the calligraphy dot painting, and the flesh and blood are attached to it, so the calligraphers of the past dynasties have emphasized the use of the pen for thousands of years, it can be said that the dot painting has no center and it is not possible to talk about the texture, the twelve characters are true: "cone painting sand, house leakage, hairpin strands, printing mud" is a summary of this, "Yan muscle willow bone" is the most direct embodiment, the Northern Wei Dynasty stone carving "Shiping Gong Statue Record", Yu Shinan "Confucius Temple Tablet" It is also the best of them.
If calligraphy wants to have texture, it is necessary to insist on practicing Xi for a long time, to achieve the intention of the pen, and to instill one's own literary style, qualifications, and cultivation into it.