Design theory: The Chinese character calligraphy flowing line beauty

We are all concerned about the visual feast, the Western aesthetics, today to share, China's most ancient beauty, but also around the aesthetics-the beauty of Chinese character calligraphy;

Ancient Chinese, Cangjie made also. View the potential of the geographical survey, the birds of the tortoise, the elephant, gambling on the United States, combined with the word. Praise Yue: Miao Miao Cang Gong, the beginning of the shaft. The creation of words, Deppe. If the stars, Yu for discipline. Thousand-year-old drifting, such as Palm view. Competent de, moss of the United States. God Zhangling the article, from the beginning. -Zhang Hui "book Break"

Since its birth, Chinese characters have been endowed with aesthetic sense and historical responsibility. Chinese characters are hieroglyphics, the ancestors of the abstract summary of the real world, the Chinese character is not only the language of the carrier, but also a kind of image of the picture; each Chinese character is a flowing history, each painting is flowing lines;

Chinese characters, as the oldest hieroglyphics has never been like the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics was replaced by phonetic form, which means that the meaning of long and distant. There is a point is that Chinese characters from the birth of the inner beauty of the art, so in other ancient civilizations of hieroglyphics increasingly for letters replaced, Chinese characters are still independent. This cannot be attributed to the artistic nature of Chinese characters-calligraphy. Therefore, calligraphy has become a unique art of Chinese culture.

　

Changes in lines

Lines are the most basic structure of calligraphy and writing. The development of Chinese characters, from the earliest lines of Oracle, Dazhuan, Xiaozhuan, after the development of the Han Yu, grass, lines, regular script, lines become richer and change.

Regular script, also known as block letters, italics, positive books or true books, is a common font in Chinese calligraphy. Its shape is more affirmative, unlike the official script written in a flat shape.

In the calligraphy of italics, the most regular, serious, a brush strokes strict. Regular script in the line is the most rule, 1.1 fine and exquisite.

"Jiu Cheng Palace"-Ouyangxun

Ouyangxun (5,571,641 years), Word letter, Tanzhou Linxiang person;

Ouyangxun to regular script as the most, strokes risk, the structure of the unique, descendants known as "EU." Its source out of Han Yu, backbone strength Qiao, the application is cautious, lithographic the center see 险绝, in the rules see elegant, strokes interspersed, arranged properly affixed.

Regular script lines neat and rigorous, points such as peak fall stone, horizontal if thousands of miles of clouds, lines of interwoven, as if to see the highest spirit of the book's concentration, concentrated writing;

Ouyangxun lines are steep and straight, the spirit of the model, and Huai Su, Zhangxuyue is unrestrained, flowing, indulge informal;

"Autobiographic stickers"-Huai Su

Huai Su, the word Tibetan truth, Hunan Changsha people;

His cursive is called "Kuangcao", with the pen round strength strong, make turn like ring, unrestrained fluent, coherent, and Zhangxuyue. Later, "Zhang-dian-crazy" or "a hangover" of the said.

Cursive, formed in the Han Dynasty, is for the simple writing in the official script on the basis of the evolution of the Chinese script, the most fluent in the book;
Cursive more than the curve, but also extremely express the writer's feelings, writing flowing, like the alignment, and never leave;

Cursive is not all wild, cursive can also warm wen, "grass is the most difficult, snake unexpectedly pen;" Cursive bold lines, there are also introverted, the same as Huai Su book, "The Grass thousand characters in addition to elegant flying, mellow lush, The Strokes Jin dense, off the crazy strange return insipid quaint;

Chinese calligraphy is not only the emphasis on its own beauty, but also the expression of emotional lines, very emotional fluctuations, his beauty is pluralistic and comprehensive;

　

The emotion and line of calligraphy

The emotion and line of calligraphy become the unity of mutual dependence in the art of calligraphy, the movement of emotion only depends on the rhythm of line, and the movement of line only takes the motion of emotion as the necessary and sufficient psychological basis.

"Lan Ting Preface"-Wang Xizhi

East Jin Mouti Yonghe March 3, 9, Wang Xizhi and Xiean, Sun Yu and so on 41 people, in Shanyin Orchid Pavilion "Repair 禊", each poem, and Yu Xizhi for preface. Preface in the narrative orchid pavilion surrounding the beauty of the scenery and the joy of the party, to express the author's short-lived, Life and death impermanence of emotion. Fateh Legend of this, a total of 28 lines, 324 words. Is the representative of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy.

Wang Xizhi (303–361), the word Yi Shao, jin generation lang evil person. Be good at regular script, running script and cursive script, his character end show fresh, "float if cloud, straighten if frighten dragon". After being revered as "St.", and its Zizhi collectively called "Two Kings", the descendants of the book as a model.

Wang Xizhi's "Orchid Pavilion Preface" is in the peace, the happy circumstance masterpiece, each word line subtlety, the Jin Xiu, Yiqiu Li, like the carving jade, elegant.

The manuscript of the nephew-Yan Zhenqing

Yan Zhenqing (709-785 years), the word Qing Chen, Langya filial piety and fraternal people. Dezon when the official to board Chancery, Prince, seal Rushigang, said, "Yenru".

Nephew's manuscript: Cursive book. Rebellion, Lu Pang brother Yeng Qing as Changshan County Prefecture, the Thief soldiers in the army, Taiyuan Military Army not save, even the city break, Yeng Qing and son Yetimin dead. So the article said, "The thief minister not to save, Gu City surround force, the father trapped son die, nest dumping eggs." After the incident, Lu-zhi-zhi-Zhi Quan Ming to the aftermath, only Gao Qing one foot, Diming skull, is this.

This post for the manuscript, so visible the traces of the smear, and therefore visible feelings and ups and downs, Ay no disguise,

So write the appearance of flying, gestures Xiongqi, posture, natural wonderful. All the visible pens and the places where they were brought. Throughout the use of a tube micro-bald pen, to round the strokes, if the circulation of the seal, surrendered to the end, although the ink withered and then the ink, ink due to the beginning of the pause, black ash thick withered, many changes, but before and after the coherent.

Yan Zhenqing's "nephew manuscript" is in sadness, anger in the case of venting, emotional changes led to the ups and downs of the brushwork rhythm, calligraphy lines boundless Hischon of the gas, will be the true feelings incisively and vividly show, at this time the lines desolate, indignation, doping the brilliant life of the book family and the perception of life.

Yuan Dynasty Zhang Jinghan Tiba Cloud: "Not better than letters, letters as drafted." Cover to Sue is official, although the end of the letters for the rope about; for a moment of down-hearted, then quite able to indulge it, and drafted out of the unintentional, is its palms two forget, really wonderful see this also. ”

Yuanxian Yu Yu Comment This post is "World second running script".

"Cold food Post"-Su Shi

Su Shi (1037-1101), Zi Zhan, again Word and Zhong, the number "Dompogu", Meizhou people.

Yuanfeng two years, "Wu Taiwan poem Case" broke out, Su Shi to slander the new deal, arrested in prison, after a lighter, responsible for granting Huangzhou Tuanlian, the state placement. In Huangzhou three years of cold food Festival poem Draft.

Su Shi's "Huangzhou Cold food poem", is Su shi because "the Wu Taiwan poem Case" was banished Huangzhou poetry, wrote two poems, Su Shi will verse mood emotion change, lies in the point painting line change, or is front, or side front, transforms the changeable, conveniently breaks up the union, the natural, achieves "the heart palm Smooth" the near perfect realm.

"Roughly like flowing, the initial amorphous, but often in the line to say, often stop to say not only, arts and natural, posture and wild"-"sushi anthology" used to describe Su Shi's calligraphy art in the appropriate but.

The world's three major scripts, are manuscripts, and therefore the performance of the book is straightforward, natural, the flow of lines are also interesting. As if Chuang Tzu said, "Heaven and earth have great beauty without words" the beauty of pure nature is the most good.

Only in the reflection of Chinese traditional culture, lines can be so free to express all kinds of emptiness and reality, yin and Yang realm. By combining this feature with the modern design concept, it is possible to create the design works of the oriental sentiment.

"The line is a kind of psychological form that people grasp nature, so the main line is like a natural understanding and experience, a unified line of the universe, the world broke the void, but also broke the quality of reality, when the wind and rain quickly, Shang Vientiane Swallow, a quiver of the line, is a continuous flow of life. "– The spirit of life in Chinese art"