This feature and artistry of running script has attracted many calligraphy lovers, who think it is relatively easy to learn running script, master it quickly and give full play to their individuality. So I copied the model post for a few days, and without solid basic skills, I began to create running scripts. The works written in this way naturally do not conform to the norms, let alone artistry. They are just graffiti, self-righteous, and have no style and charm. Some people only concentrate on copying model posts, and their attitude is also very serious, and they have made a lot of efforts. However, because they don't understand the rules of running script creation, they can be a bit like a template when creating, but they can't use the knowledge of traditional techniques they have learned to create personalized and artistic works. This is all because the understanding and methods are wrong, and the more you write, the more trouble you get, and you go astray.
"Xuan He Shu Pu Xing Xu Shu Lun" said: "Self-moving sweeping the floor is actually a matter of detention, and grass is a matter of release. There are two places between them, and the calligraphy is organized. Therefore, it is really true, and the grass is called a running script. " That is to say, after the official script became an ancient script, the official script was out of date, the regular script was too stiff, and the cursive script was too bold and unrestrained, and the running script came into being between the two. Running script with regular script is called running script, running script with cursive script is called running script or cursive script. It can be seen that running script is a writing style formed by absorbing regular script and cursive script, or a writing style between them is called running script. This writing style has no strict fixed structure. Although it contains regular script elements, the structure is more omitted and concise, and the writing is more simple and clear. It absorbs the concise structure of cursive script and the writing method of word conjunction. If there are many elements in regular script, those close to regular script are called regular script; Close to cursive, cursive is called cursive. The appearance of this kind of running script was originally for practical needs. Practical places are different, and different places have different writing methods. In serious places, it is natural to use real books (regular script) at that time. It seems to be a reasonable natural phenomenon that it is necessary to write it simply and quickly in order to save time and effort in everyday casual occasions. Running script began with practicality, and later it was found that this writing method was not only convenient and practical, but also artistic, so it became more and more popular and more and more people wrote it. Since running script is such a style, its structure and brushwork will naturally form its own set of rules. There are running scripts close to regular script, such as Ou Yangxun's thousand-character script (Figure 1, partial). Although the structure is regular script, it belongs to running script pen. Unlike the regular script method, you don't pause for the pen, but you use the pen to stumble. But along the pen, the pen is connected. Although there was a pause, I quickly closed the pen or turned it. This is the characteristic of running script. Some are close to cursive script, with many cursive script components and few regular script components, which is cursive script. For example, Yan Zhenqing's "Post Outside the River" said: "Huzhou is the most humble place outside the river. This year, the states joined hands with their own states to enter Taihu Lake. Because of Liu Shangshu and Zheng Sheng, Tian Miao didn't drown, which made people feel uneasy. Or you just don't listen. Really white. " (Figure 2) Another example is Zhang Jiming's Post by Mi Fei in the Song Dynasty. There is a cloud in the post: "I received Zhang Jiming's post, and the autumn (gas) is not deep, judging the strength, it is the first post in the world. Secondly, I congratulate Ba Tie, I am not a book. " These two posts are cursive, and many words are cursive. For example, the words "drunk, miss, Zhu, Zhou, He, Ben, Shu, Xin, Ran, An, Er, Zhen Qing" in Jiang Waitie are all cursive. Mi Fei's "Zhang Jiming's Post" (Figure 3) is characterized by continuous strokes and coherent lines, which can be called "one stroke". They are all cursive brushwork, but the structure is basically kept in regular script. There is also a kind of running script, which is mainly running script and occasionally penetrates into cursive script, forming a distinct change in running script cursive script, which often appears in early running scripts, such as those of Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi. This is the case with Wang Xizhi's Post of Confucius and Post of Mourning for the Dead. The words "helpless" and "I don't know" (Figure 4) are all cursive. Another example is the word "answer questions" in Confucius' post (Figure 5), which is also written in pure grass. This form of running script, cursive script alternating, is in sharp contrast, with light and heavy rhythm changes. There is also a running script, with cursive structure and writing methods on the bookshelf, such as the joint brushwork in Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting (Figure 6). This can be said to be a relatively standard running script. Therefore, although running script has its own rules and characteristics, every calligrapher has his own writing style, either regular script or cursive script, or both regular script and cursive script, or a more standard running script. This change in the specific writing method of running script is inseparable from the fashion of each era, personal cultural and artistic accomplishment, understanding of running script and efforts made in calligraphy art.
Liu Xizai's "Art Outline" said; "Know the true grass is good at it. If you want to draw something green, you only need to meet the requirements of green and yellow, and you don't need to set the green material. " Liu Xizai's words mean that the relationship between truth, grass and line is like turquoise in painting. Turquoise will appear as long as cyan and yellow are combined, and there is no need to set up special green pigments. In other words, Liu Xizai believes that writing a running script can become a running script as long as you are proficient in regular script and cursive script, and you don't need to learn it specially. This statement is natural and reasonable in theory. But in practice, the combination of the two also needs a process. After all, regular script and running script are different in structure and pen use, and both need to be changed. You can't copy it mechanically. Learning running script requires independent practice and research in structure and pen to write it well. Of course, if you learn regular script and cursive script well, you will learn running script much faster. When talking about the different characteristics and tastes of the original works, lines and cursive scripts in Liu Ti Shu Lun, Zhang Huai said: "The original works are like standing, the cursive scripts are like lines, and they are interesting and unique." The real book is regular script, serious and static. If you go to the cursive script, it will be faster and dynamic. Running scripts is expensive, but running is different from standing. Different from walking speed, walking slowly means that the pen is always in action, and there is no long pause when starting and closing the pen, which means moving immediately, or moving in tandem, or picking up the pen, that is, there is a clear or dark, real or virtual connection between the previous pen and the next pen. At the same time, it has a simple cursive structure, which saves repeated strokes in regular script and accelerates the writing speed with the help of joint deformation, thus producing the characteristics of running script. "It is very important to publish books at the right time." It is not only conducive to practicality, but also can be used in art to remove meaning, combine static and dynamic, change virtual and real, and form a rhythmic charm. "Truth is close to truth and perpendicular to truth, and grass is close to grass and gathers in grass." More indulgent than regular script, more convergent than cursive script, static and dynamic, complex and simple, and endless fun. The structure of running script and its related strokes make lines form various artistic forms, which is a kind of calligraphy that is convenient for artistic creation. Fully understanding and understanding the characteristics of running script is our primary task in writing running script. Only by fully understanding and understanding the running script can we master the characteristics of its structure and brushwork and the essentials of creation when writing.