You have finished your post and started to create, which is about absorption. Mr. Qi Gong, a famous calligrapher, said: "You can't learn without looking at the tablet. Look at the pen through the blade. " Not all the calligraphy works of the ancients are good, even the works of masters are not all wonderful. This requires us to improve our eyesight, see more, know how to appreciate and compare, sum up the experience of our predecessors in learning calligraphy, and make sure that we have something to take and a hundred schools of thought contend. You have absorbed the essence of the ancients, you must turn it into your own, digest and absorb it.
Let's talk about the writing in the creation first, then the content. We can write famous sentences in Tang poetry, Song poetry, ancient prose, ancient calligraphy quotes, modern celebrity epigrams, new poems, or write our own things. People who are engaged in calligraphy must have certain knowledge. Lu You once said, "If you want to learn poetry, you must learn kung fu from it." . We are talking outside the words. How to understand it? First of all, learners should have good cultivation. Learning books should have virtue in mind, improve and cultivate one's sentiment from all aspects, and also make oneself have a better temperament. Second, widely absorb other artistic nutrition. Calligraphers should be good at observing life and extracting beautiful phenomena from life; And into their own calligraphy art, writers should experience life. For example, when a writer is among us, he will vividly reflect and write things around us, and we will laugh and cry together with his works. A painter who experiences life can also show the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, which is something that can be seen and touched. How can we experience life? It is said that when Zhang Xu saw Gong Sundaniang dancing sword, he begged for ways to improve his calligraphy skills and realized the cursive brushwork. Huai Su watched the strange peaks of summer clouds and listened to the river waves at night, which inspired the spiritual inspiration of calligraphy creation. From these explanations, we can also experience life. We have observed the changes in life and everything in the world, and we have produced the first level of empathy. These natural things have become emotions and ideals in our hearts, which have aroused our voices and expressed these beautiful feelings through the pens in our hands. When expressing, there is no natural scenery, only lines. Of course, these lines bring the author's own thoughts and feelings, which is the second-level empathy that other arts do not have. This is my understanding of how calligraphers observe and experience life.
I found that many works have typos and lost words. Copying Tang poetry can make mistakes, which means that there are too few studies at ordinary times. Some works have semi-simple and semi-complicated words, such as the word "Yan", which has produced new variants. This is what we should avoid in our creation, and we need to strengthen the extra-word effort. If you can't write poetry, at least learn to recite it first. Speaking of simplified Chinese characters, someone asked, you must write traditional Chinese characters when learning calligraphy, but can't you write simplified Chinese characters? Personally, I think that decorative calligraphy works can use traditional Chinese characters, Oracle Bone Inscriptions and inscriptions, or simplified Chinese characters, but it can't be a simple and complicated work, and a word is half simple and half complex. Formal documents, teaching materials or promotional materials should use standardized simplified characters. This is a law formulated by the state and should be observed.
I will talk about the form of creation. Brush calligraphy includes nave, couplets, bucket squares, banners, fans and so on. The forms of hard pen calligraphy are also very extensive. Generally speaking, there are two forms of writing: horizontal writing and vertical writing. In terms of expression, it can be made into circles, sectors, rectangles, rectangles and squares. In terms of mounting, artistic treatment can be carried out according to the mounting form of calligraphy and painting. It can also be made into modern decorative materials such as wall wallpaper, blow-molded paper, whiteboard paper and plywood. You can also frame it, hang it directly and make a bookmark. The manifestation of hard pen calligraphy writing can also be called a phenomenon. The first is the traditional phenomenon. It is characterized by using hard pen to express the thickness of lines, the density of composition, and the changes of brush strokes and Mo Yun. There are also various tools used, such as artistic pens, pens made of bamboo, chopsticks and feathers, and pencils dipped in ink. Most of the expressions are copied from brush strokes, which narrows down the big expressions. The second is the true color phenomenon, which can be directly expressed with a hard pen. Pen or ballpoint pen without special treatment can directly express the thickness of strokes. This is also related to the degree of exertion. Many comrades may not realize it, but they did it. I have read the pen copybook of the late calligrapher Deng Sanmu. The ups and downs, rhythms and rhythms of pen lines are vivid and novel, which well reflects the true nature of writing with pen. The third is innovation. I think it is mainly based on some schools of Japanese calligraphy and some creations made with reference to domestic modern calligraphy. Some forms of expression, such as writing the word "landscape", draw a mountain and a water. I don't think this thing is recommended After all, hieroglyphics account for a small proportion of China characters. What should I do if I encounter some characters that are not hieroglyphics? The scope of creation is narrow, but don't stop it forcibly, just let it be! In fact, to engage in calligraphy, we should pursue the aspect of writing well. This is just my personal opinion. After a work is finished, several seals are needed to add color and enliven the layout. There are two kinds of seals: named seals and idle seals. The name seal includes surname seal, name seal and name seal, while the idle seal includes collar seal and horn seal, and the name seal bell is below or on the left. When the "idle seal" is used as a quotation, the clock is in the first word or the drop point of the work. When it is used as a corner, the clock is in the lower right corner of the work, and the seal is bigger than the inscription, usurping the role of the master. The work is relatively small and the seal is very large, which is not harmonious. This is also the knowledge that must be mastered. The above is not what I said, but an excerpt from an interview with Mr. Zhang Huaqing, Chairman of the Hard Association. I hope it helps.