The quality of calligraphy works is mainly judged by the lines, fluency and integrity of fonts. China is the birthplace of calligraphy art and culture, and also the first country to use brush.
There are many writers, such as Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing, Huai Su, Su Dongpo, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei, Wang Duo and Liu Gongquan, as well as modern Sha Menghai, Qi Gong and Liu Huipu (alive). These literati are all great calligraphers with profound skills. The art of writing brush calligraphy needs to be carried forward by the next generation and needs our efforts.
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China's calligraphy is a unique traditional art in China, which is mainly divided into "soft pen calligraphy" and "hard pen calligraphy". Throughout the ages, Chinese characters in China have been created by working people, and pictures have been used to record them. After thousands of years of development, it has evolved into today's writing. Calligraphy came into being because our ancestors invented the writing brush. Throughout the ages, Chinese characters were mainly written with a brush.
As for other forms of writing, such as hard pen, finger book and so on. Their writing rules are not completely different from those of the brush, but they are basically the same. Based on tracing the source (after Oracle bone inscriptions), this paper focuses on the law of writing Chinese characters with a brush. As long as we have a "narrow" understanding of calligraphy, it will be of great benefit to understand "broad" calligraphy.
Calligraphy in a narrow sense refers to the methods and laws of writing Chinese characters with a brush. Including writing, calligraphy, stippling, structure, layout (distribution, lines, composition) and so on. For example, the pen refers to the palm and the five fingers are Qi Li; The pen carrying center is unfolded; Stippling is the same as a pen; The structure is shaped by words and echoes each other.