List of high-quality authors Chinese calligraphy as an art category, can be presented in black and white, listen to the beautiful melody in a silent place, unfortunately there are too many half-hung experts, a sentence in the east, a sentence in the west, and many beginners are confused: how should we practice calligraphy?
Today, let's start with the simplest selection and use of pen, ink, paper, and inkstone. If you continue to practice this article, you will definitely see the results within a week.
How to choose a pen. Confucius once said that if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. Therefore, the first step in practicing Xi calligraphy is to choose a pen that suits you.
In the long river of calligraphy, we popularly divide calligraphy into regular script, line script, and cursive script. If subdivided, the regular script is divided into Lishu, Xiaokai, Wei tablet, etcFrom the style can be divided into Yan Liuou Zhao four, the Song Dynasty and some people will Su Dongpo, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu, Cai Xiang called "Song four".
Practice Xi different body of the book, choose a different brush to choose a pen: it is recommended to use wolf hair to write regular script, this kind of pen is harder, easy to write the edges and corners of the words;Writing books with both hair, its pen contains wolf hair and sheep hair, suitable for different groups of people;Write cursive and choose sheep's hair, sheep's hair is soft and free.
No matter what kind of pen, it is not recommended to buy expensive ones, let alone those decorative bells and whistles, pens are for use, not for show.
How to choose ink. We often say pen, ink, paper, inkstone, but only when the practice Xi reaches a certain stage and has more stringent requirements for ink, it is necessary to grind the inkstone to achieve the effect you need. The ink is placed in front of you, but you have to grind it, unless your family is particularly rich, in which case you can pay for a scholar to do it for you.
Ink can generally be divided into pine smoke ink, oil smoke ink and lacquer smoke ink. Pine smoke ink is made of pine as a raw material, and the texture is coarse, which is suitable for writing;The oil smoke ink is made of vegetable oil such as tung oil, and the texture is more delicate, which is suitable for paintingLacquer smoke ink is made of raw lacquer, with a more delicate texture and a deeper color, which is suitable for high-end calligraphy and painting.
Before writing, you can pour the ink into a small bowl or inkstone, and mix it with water until it shows the right concentration. Only by mastering this knowledge can we better exert the charm of ink.
How to choose paper. To practice calligraphy, some people like to write cloth with water, I recommend that if conditions permit, rice paper is still used, and the effect of the two is not the same.
The rice paper floor is soft and absorbent, and it can express your emotions and feelings more fluently. At the same time, the ink wetting of rice paper can show the change of ink color and layering, making the characters more vivid and powerful. Through rice paper, we can also control the moisture in the pen to better grasp the stroke and structure, and achieve precise Xi.
Finally, let's talk about whether beginners must practice regular script. I can responsibly say that cursive writing requires the writer to reach a certain level of pen control before he can sway freely, in addition, beginners can start with regular script or line calligraphy, the most important thing is to like it.
As for which font to choose, I have already said in the previous part of how to choose a pen, friends can search for their inscriptions on the Internet, and then print it out, day by day, and eventually write a beautiful brush word.
Finally, send a copy of my Xi, and welcome criticism and correction. (Li Junxiao).