1) What font should beginners practice?
The traditional way to learn calligraphy is to start from Tang Kai, and practice Nanbei Han Liqin seal script on the basis of writing regular script in reverse time. Another concept can start from Qin Zhuan, with little change, and then start from cursive script to regular script. These two concepts have their own reasons. However, I think the hard pen calligraphy we learn is essentially different from the brush calligraphy mentioned above. We can't follow its practice method, and we can't be confused by the traditional concept of learning brush first and then learning hard pen. Hard pen is widely used now. If you can't write China's calligraphy well, you can still write well. There is no need to take a detour.
What font should I practice in hard pen writing? In my opinion, starting from the characteristics of young people's hand muscle development and the characteristics of uniform strokes and less changes in hard pen calligraphy, we should start with fonts that never require fast strokes and heavy changes. It is best to print in bold. The beauty of this font mainly lies in its structure. We can master the structure of fonts by trying to figure out and analyzing bold. On this basis, you can choose your favorite font according to your personality and hobbies and practice hard.
(2) What abilities should novices cultivate and exercise?
1, practice your eyes, just read the post carefully. Huang Tingjian, a calligrapher in the Song Dynasty, said: "The ancients learned to write, not all of them copied. They often hang ancient calligraphy works on the wall, watch them intently, and decide to start writing. " Ou Yangxun in the Tang Dynasty found the inscription written by Suo Jing in the Jin Dynasty, and was reluctant to leave, so he sat down and read it for three days. The more posts you read, the higher your horizon, and you will know how to write. There is an idiom called "eyes are superior but eyes are inferior". I think: eye height is the premise of hand height. If you can't find beauty, you don't know what beauty is, let alone create it. Many students think that scribbling is the so-called running script, and the reason why ugliness is beautiful is because "the eyes are superior and the eyes are inferior."
2, practice the brain and nourish the heart. On the basis of careful observation, we should keep well-written model figures firmly in mind and engrave their glyphs deeply in our minds. Whenever the word is mentioned, we can immediately guess the shape of the word on the copybook. Do it with confidence and words in your heart.
3. practice your hands. Practice your eyes and brain to find out how to write words. You can think of the best effect of words in your mind, but it may not be written in your hand, because your brain may not be able to command your hand, and your hand may not be able to command your pen. Hand training is to achieve the consistency of heart and hand and handwriting, so hand training is also very important. Hand training mainly refers to strength, wrist strength and hand feeling. If you write for a long time, you will feel sore fingers, sore wrists, hands that don't work, and exercise more. This phenomenon will disappear. Also pay attention to practice the sense of touch, let the brain command the hand, and feel that the pen has become a part of the hand and an extension of the hand. Hands can easily command the pen, think fast, think slow, think light, think heavy, and write whatever effect you want.
4, practice structure, because the key to practicing Chinese characters is to master the structure of words. The structure of a word refers to the proportion of stroke length and the relationship between strokes. I have mastered the structure of Chinese characters, and I have written square and beautiful bold characters. With a little change of strokes, I can write Chinese characters in various fonts, such as Song Ti, Wei Ti, Kai Ti, Imitation Song Ti, Pang Ti, Sima Ti and Li Shu. If you can't master the structure of Chinese characters, no matter how the strokes of Chinese characters are decorated and beautified, they are ugly. Therefore, mastering the structure of characters and writing bold characters is the key and foundation for practicing all fonts.
5. Practice strokes. Many people have practiced calligraphy. Since they began to practice regular script, they have forgotten many writing rules and only remember pens. As a result, the words written are very cumbersome, like ghost symbols. I advocate practicing in bold, mastering fonts and canceling pens.
(3) The general steps of practicing calligraphy.
1, position selection. The process of choosing fonts is called post selection. On the basis of practicing bold type, mastering the structure of words and practicing basic skills, you can choose your favorite font to practice.
2. read the post. We all know the pronunciation of the posted Chinese characters, so we don't need to read them any more. Read what? Read fonts, read structures, read strokes, and analyze the relationship between stroke characteristics and strokes of Chinese characters.
3. description. "Tracing" refers to tracing red, that is, beginners use a blue pen to trace the printed red copybook along the handwriting. "Imitation" refers to copying the post, that is, covering the model words with transparent paper and writing them one by one along the shadow of the words on the paper, which is also called writing imitation.
4. post it. It means to put the copybook aside and watch the copybook written on the homework paper word by word. This method is helpful to master the brushwork and meaning of Chinese characters, but it is not easy to master the structure of Chinese characters.
5, back post. Refers to the method of removing the copybook on the basis of copying, recalling the font on the copybook according to your own memory and writing it on the homework paper. This is a key step in practicing calligraphy. Only by carefully examining the words you read and write, can you write accurately. When writing, if you can see the exact font of the Chinese characters to be written on white paper, so that "the words are on the paper and the words are on the chest", it is not a problem to write a good hand.
6. creation. On the basis of mastering the writing method of the words on the copybook, I learned the writing method of the words not on the copybook by analogy. According to the needs of self-expression, writing a paragraph with center, content and self-contained system is creation.
If you can write a word close to the copybook in your usual study and life, the purpose of practicing calligraphy will be achieved.
(4) Matters needing attention in writing.
First, choose a good writing tool. "If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first get his tools." Whether it is a pen or a ballpoint pen, choose a good pen with smooth writing and uniform line thickness. The ink is too light to recognize; The ink is too dark, giving people a sense of oppression.
Second, write posture specifications. Pay attention to the posture and method of writing when practicing calligraphy. The writing posture and method of beginners should be "head straight, body straight, arms open and feet safe".
Third, we must be calm. When practicing calligraphy, you should be calm, have a beginning and an end, and you should not be impetuous and perfunctory. When you write, you should be meticulous, and every stroke should be true. When someone is practicing calligraphy, they like to scribble before they finish. This kind of scribbling is a taboo for practicing calligraphy, which not only damages the life of the pen tip, but also makes the progress that has just been made go up in smoke for a long time.
Fourth, we must have perseverance and perseverance. Don't change fonts easily. To practice calligraphy, you should have perseverance and perseverance, and you should practice solid basic skills. Practice calligraphy often, you can't fish for three days and dry the net for two days. Note: practice kung fu for one day, not ten days a day. On the basis of mastering the font structure, you can choose your favorite font and keep practicing. Don't change the font easily. Because once you change the font, you have to practice from the beginning.
Fifth, we must learn to use them in combination. Learn to combine practice with writing. Some students write well when practicing calligraphy, but they are blind when writing homework. They can never practice writing well. You usually use the words you have practiced, so write as well as you practiced. Only by practicing and using one can both middle schools and schools be used, and the combination of learning and using can be practiced well.
Sixth, learn with an open mind.
(5) Calligraphy practice has three realms.
The first realm is the combination of pen and hand. Everyone has read Jin Yong's novel "the legendary swordsman", in which there is an incisive exposition about practicing swords: When beginners start practicing, they use their hands to make swords, and sometimes the swords don't listen to him, and even hurt themselves. After practicing for a period of time, fencing has reached a higher level, combining hand and sword, making swords with heart and acting with heart. The highest state of fencing is the unity of heart and sword, without sword and without me. All gestures are swords, all flying flowers and leaves are swords, and a thin embroidery needle can also resist three swordsmen. This kind of fencing can be said to have reached a superb level. The same is true of writing. In the primary stage of practicing calligraphy, we also use our hands to make pens. There is a process from never listening to hands to being proficient, which can be further developed to the realm of pen and hand integration. At this time, when writing, I feel that the pen is a part of my hand, not writing with a pen, but writing by hand. As long as we practice hard, we can reach this level.
The second realm is the unity of mind and pen. Write with your heart, your heart and pen are one, and your heart is moving. What he wrote was what he thought. When he reaches this level, his calligraphy level can be said to be a small achievement. All of us, including me, should work hard towards this goal.
The third realm is no me and no pen. Many famous calligraphers in ancient times were like this. For example, Wang Xizhi saw the swimming posture of the white goose and realized the gesture of "floating goose hook"; Zhang Xu saw that the lantern-bearer was fighting for the road and Gong Sundaniang was dancing with a sword, from which he realized the relationship between the struggle and interpenetration of structural stippling and the quickness and rhythm of using a pen, which greatly enriched his writing style of Crazy Grass. Looking at the waves in Xia Yun, Huai Su realized the majestic cursive script and the trend of tumbling down the river; Yan Zhenqing understood the slowness and exertion of using a pen by observing the leaks in the house and drawing sand with an awl. This is the ideal state for us to practice calligraphy. When we reach this state, whether we have a pen or not, whether we have a soft pen or a hard pen, even a dead branch or a broken broom, we can write wonderful calligraphy works.
Personally, I suggest downloading the font you want from Xunlei and putting it in the Fonts folder of your computer system, and then you can use this font on your computer. Of course, you can print it as a tracing object.