Wei Shuo, a famous calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, is Wang Xizhi's wife in her representative work "Pen Array". When Wang Xizhi was a child, Wei Shuo took him to climb to the top of the mountain and threw down the stone to experience the "point";Take him to the top of the mountain to feel the air flow in the clouds, which is "horizontal";It is said that he took it to the orange tree and let it touch the rough vines on it, which is "vertical".
Pen Array Diagram Zhongyun: Horizontal like a thousand miles of clouds, points like a high mountain stone, apostrophe like the horn of a broken rhino elephant on the land, vertical like a long live withered vine, like a crashing wave and thunder, Nu like a hundred jun crossbow hair, hook like a strong crossbow joint.
She wrote a volume entitled "Diagram of the Pen Array", which comprehensively and deeply referred to the relevant theories of calligraphy and put forward her own opinions. She first proposed in the book that the magic of calligraphy "does not precede the use of the pen". He advocates that learning Xi calligraphy should go to the source of the lake, learn from the ancients, oppose being familiar with the truth, and learning should not be supported, so that the spirit of vain and learning will not be successful. Mrs. Wei forked that when learning Xi and creating, we should pay attention to the varieties and origins of pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and emphasize that if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. He also emphatically pointed out that it is necessary to pay attention to the writing and that different styles of writing should adopt different writing methods, and make a specific analysis, saying: "Those who are anxious and slow to write, and those who are slow and anxious to write." If the pen is close and can not be tightened, the heart is not aligned, the intention of the pen first, defeat;If the pen is far away and urgent, the intention is to write the latter, win. It goes beyond the scope of simply discussing the brush, but makes a profound discussion on the relationship between the pen and the mind and the cultivation of the calligrapher in the art of calligraphy.
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