Chinese calligraphy ",from Mi Fei, a master of calligraphy in the Song Dynasty. The emperor asked Mi Fei according to his "Famous Sentences of Haiyue": Who can pass on the name of calligraphy from generation to generation? Mi Fei replied, "Cai Jing can't write, Cai Bian can write blank, Cai Xiang has fun, Shen Liao typesetting, Huang Tingjian draws pictures, and Su Shi draws pictures." When talking about his calligraphy, he said, "I brush words with books."
What he is talking about here is the unique methods and calligraphy styles of these people. Because Mi Fei's own brushwork is four-sided, fast and swift, he compares himself to "brush", calls Cai Xiang's slow brushwork "le", calls Su Shi's repeated brushwork "stroke" and calls Huang Tingjian's light brushwork "tracing".
The ancients used a pen, emphasizing horizontal and vertical pens, using a pen hard, hiding the head and protecting the tail, and using it. However, these calligraphers dared to break through the barriers of the mean of the ancients, were paranoid, and highlighted their own methods of using pens, thus forming their own unique style and forming their own family. Mifei's calligraphy is a prominent example.
However, we should also pay attention to the fact that we should not let certain brushwork become a habit, deliberately pursue certain brushwork effects and lose affectation. We should pay attention to the natural display driven by real feelings and personality, otherwise it will be counterproductive and we will not be able to write masterpieces handed down from generation to generation.