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To distinguish between writing and "tracing"
Many people are not writing, but dicing, especially when writing letters. Many people have such confusion: they feel that writing cursive writing is not helpful, and even feel that it is an obstacle, so some people stand up and openly oppose the study of calligraphy, especially Tang Kai, in fact, the big problem is that we have misunderstood the posting as "tracing" since childhood, such strokes are "done", not "written", completely without writing, how to transform?
Many people write calligraphy, separating seals, affiliations, letters, lines, and grasses, which I think is not true, they are just different forms in the development of Chinese characters, so to some extent, the various bodies should be connected.
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It is necessary to deal with the relationship between the stele and the sticker
First of all, I think there is no absolute difference between the stele and the post, but the way of writing and the form of existence are different. Han Li and Tang Bei are very good, and we must pay attention to these problems when studying:
(1) Whether it is Han Li or Tang Kai, it is done in a solemn and serious state, and the calligrapher's usual state of writing is completely different, let's imagine, if a major event happens somewhere today, someone asks you to write a picture engraved on the stele, is it not the same as the usual writing state?
(2) When the stele was engraved, many of the ribbons were lost, and the pen path was already very blurred, which brought a lot of misreading to our daily writing;
(3) Weathering and rain have made many monuments unrecognizable. Therefore, when we write monuments, we must rely on the understanding of inkblots, and at the same time, we can not only learn many famous monuments in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there are some Simple Books, Western Han Brick Texts, especially inkblots since the Ming Dynasty, we must pay attention to and study, in fact, I have always advocated starting from the Qing Dynasty.
Due to misreading, many of us added a lot of actions when writing the Han monument, and the ingredients were more obvious, in fact, the ancients were not so complicated, which Bao Xianlun did well. Before the Wei and Jin dynasties, Chinese calligraphy still put structure first, which may have a lot to do with the practical function of calligraphy.
Qi Gong's discussion on the study of inscriptions
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It is necessary to carefully understand the description of calligraphy by the ancients
For example, the ancients compared "point" to "falling from a high mountain", so there are at least the following interpretations: first, the stone is one shape, not a form; second, the stone is powerful and dynamic; third, the stone falls from the mountain and is powerful. And our later "point like a peach", turning the point into a flat, stationary, in fact, has been very wrong. The descriptions of calligraphy by the ancients are all vivid and vivid, and today's people always want to describe calligraphy scientifically and use mathematical formulas to interpret it, so that there is no problem.
The ancients were good at drawing forms from nature and using analog forms to promote our results. Calligraphy is that the ancients formed a stable system in continuous release and summary. Some of us now write calligraphy according to our feelings, and it is very exaggerated, it is a barbaric and crude transformation, which is not right.
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Take the pen to be loose, hold the pen to live
Ancient Chinese culture is a culture of balance, whether it is yin and yang, four elephants, tai chi, bagua or square circles are all for balance, and calligraphy is the same. We cannot interpret Chinese calligraphy with Western theories, just as we cannot use Western medicine to argue for Chinese medicine. Reduced to taking a pen and using a pen, but also to achieve "loose, virtual, live", Mi Fu said that "learning to study is expensive, that is, the pen is light, and the palm of the hand is weak." "The ancients held pens in different postures, but in fact, the truth is the same. Don't use a lot of force to write, especially when writing big characters, force.