Which is more difficult in calligraphy, pen control ability or penmanship skills ?

Personally, I think it is more difficult to control the pen, the pen control is the ability, the penmanship is the method rule, and the two are closely related. If you master the ability to control the pen, the natural penmanship will take shape faster after practice. When writing, the intention is to put the pen first, that is, every time before writing a word, you must think about its occupancy, frame structure, etc.

Pen power is often an indispensable feature of a good work. "Power through the back of the paper", "three points into the wood", "iron painting silver hook" are all commonly used words to describe excellent works. The penmanship is skill, and it is important to press and frustrate....The ability to control the pen is the premise of pen meaning, pen power and pen technique.

If you don't have a good grasp of the pen, no matter how much theoretical knowledge you have, it's just "talk on paper". The so-called paper is shallow in the end, and I never know that I have to do it.

In my opinion, both of these are equally difficult, and in calligraphy, people will say "talent" and "understanding". Many people hope that one day they will meet someone and hear a certain sentence and they will have an "epiphany". This is impossible, everything has a cause and effect, and to solve the problem thoroughly, it can only be done by listening and meditating and practicing unremittingly throughout life, "not forgetting the original intention, and summing up experience".

After long-term practice, if a pen in your hand the pen to be paved, to wrap on the wrap, to pour on the pour, to get up, to flatten, to be round, to open on the open, to receive, then no matter what strokes, can be formed, the gesture is natural, clean and refreshing. This is what later generations said about the ability to control pen, ink and paper, the so-called "pen is not easy through the ages", it is at this level that it is said that this is the majority of skills, and it must be twenty or thirty years of hard work.

On this issue, I will briefly say my own opinion, with a strong ability to control the pen, may not be able to show advanced penmanship, just like a lot of people who write Jianghu style, they practice not a lot, and the ability to control the pen is also very strong, but the penmanship is not rich, because they don't post ah, can not learn more penmanship. But if a person can show advanced brushwork, he must be able to control the brush very skillfully, which is easy to understand. Therefore, there is no way to compare the difficulty between the ability to control the pen and the brushwork, not on the same level, but there is a relationship between the two, they promote each other, and they are essential elements to complete a good calligraphy work.

As for the question of "which is more difficult, the ability to control the pen or the penmanship", I would like to talk about a superficial opinion: first figure out what is the control of the pen. In layman's terms, pen control is to use a brush or fountain pen to easily write the shape and charm of the strokes you want to write.

Then figure out what penmanship is. What is penmanship? To put it simply, penmanship is the way you use the pen to write.

Tang Zhang Huaijun said, "Yutang Ban Sutra. Use the pen to dispel the cloud: Dafan brushwork, dot painting eight bodies, with the word "Yong".

Yuan Zhao Mengfuyun: "The word cover is passed down from time to time, and it is not easy to use a pen through the ages. "So, in writing, whether it is difficult to control the pen or the penmanship, I think that the beginner calligrapher, the ability to control the pen is relatively difficult; When you cultivate to a certain level, all problems are solved.

In other words, when your writing skills are at home, the problem of difficult pen control and penmanship will be solved. It's called "it just happens".

In calligraphy, the ability to control the pen and the penmanship are two different things, they are both important and necessary elements to complete a calligraphy work, but the two are not on the same level, so there is no way to compare which one is more difficult. These two words, the ability to control the pen is the ability of the person to control the brush, that is, the ability to master the performance of the brush, and this subject is directed to the person. The two can also promote each other, and in the process of practicing brushwork, they can also better improve the ability to control the brush, and improve the ability to control the brush and better show the brushwork, and the two promote each other.

The ability to control the pen is also the ability to control the brush. Including flexible pen movement, lifting, urgency, stationing, returning, pause, frustration, dragging, turning, twisting, aerial momentum, etc. All other penmanship skills are done with the ability to control the pen proficiently.

Wang Xianzhi wrote his father Wang Xizhi behind his back and did not take off the pen, Wang Xizhi knew that he would be famous when he grew up. This is in response to the ancients said that the tighter the attachment, the more alive the luck. It lays the foundation for flexible pen movement.

The ancients also said, "If you want a pen for me, don't use it for a pen." It means that the brush should be under my command, and not let the brush command me. This emphasizes that pen control ability is the most important, and pen skills are only completed under the ability to control the pen proficiently.

So I think pen control comes first.

In my opinion, the ability to control the pen and the penmanship in calligraphy are inseparable in practice, and I can't say which one is more difficult. Pen control is the ability, penmanship is the rule, writing effect is the goal - we practice calligraphy, it can be said that it is to improve the ability to control the pen, master the rules of penmanship, and write a work that satisfies the effect. ‍‍

The former is more difficult than the latter, because the former can only be mastered by masters, and it is still more troublesome to get started.

According to my own experience, pen control and penmanship are not simple, and I have you, you have me, inseparable, it seems to be the same thing. In addition, coupled with cultural accomplishment, personality and emotion, and creative purpose, the ancients summed it up with the word "intention to write first". Brushwork is at the heart of calligraphy techniques.

Calligraphy is based on the use of the pen" is the consensus of ancient calligraphers, Huang Tingjian said: "The heart can turn the wrist, the hand can turn the pen, and the calligraphy will be as expected." The ancient manual book is no different, but it can use the pen and ear.

Other aspects of calligraphy techniques, such as the structure of the characters, the layout of the whole text, the style of the chapters, and the ink method, are all based on the brushwork.

Hello, first of all, I advise you not to listen to those people's nonsense, there are definitely some of them who can't even write well, and then use some theories that they don't seem to understand to fool themselves and others. In fact, what you said "pen control ability" and "pen skills" are almost the same thing, to put it bluntly, the ability to control the pen is not good, the penmanship skills are not good, the quality of the pen skills is the embodiment of the ability to control the pen, the practice of pen skills at the same time in the improvement of pen control ability, there is no order between the two. Like what "Jianghu style" is just a kind of saying, they are not what "strong pen control ability" and "weak penmanship skills" or something, amateur no matter how to write and write is not as much as a professional calligrapher, if there are really so many words, it will become a professional, to put it bluntly, that is, amateur whether it is in the "pen control ability" or "penmanship skills", it is always not as professional as the professional.

No matter what you do, doing more is the hardest and hardest truth, no matter how much you think about writing, it is not good to write too much.

I think it's more difficult to use penmanship, and it's hard to really comprehend what kind of pen and how to control the front.

The ability to control the pen can only be manifested in the practice of concretely embodying the penmanship skills, and the penmanship without penmanship skills (using the penmanship) is impossible to talk about calligraphy; On the contrary, there is no such thing as having excellent penmanship skills but poor pen control ability.

The ability to control the ratio is higher than that of penmanship, but the ability to control the pen is improved on the basis of practicing penmanship, and the two are complementary to each other.

It should be with the ability to control the pen that it is possible to use the penmanship skills.

Pen control is the foundation for learning the basics of calligraphy. Calligraphy skills are acquired on the basis of the ability to control the pen.

Strong pen control ability, what pen skills are very easy to master, how to write how to write, the highest level of pen and heart integration.

The pen can't be controlled, what kind of penmanship are you talking about?

Without "pen control ability", there can be no "penmanship skills".

Pen control is a long process. To do this, it took many years of training to reach this level. Become a bookmaker.

"Pen control ability" and "penmanship skills" are: see more, practice more, and think more.

The last stroke of the first river.

The methods for beginners to learn calligraphy to improve their ability to control the pen include the position of the pen in the stroke, the temporary post, and the basic exercises.

1. The position of the pen in the stroke.

Center, also known as Zhengfeng, refers to the pen in the middle of the dot painting when the pen is used to write a book. In order to make the dot painting round, calligraphers have always advocated "the center of the pen". Because when the pen runs in the middle of the dot painting, the ink flows down the tip of the pen and seeps evenly, reaching all sides, and the dot painting has no shortcomings such as the top is heavy and the bottom is light, the top is light and the bottom is heavy, the left is heavy and the right is light, and the left is light and the right is heavy.

Therefore, "center" is the fundamental brushwork of calligraphy. "Cone painting sand" and "house leakage" are the metaphors of the center.

Partial edge, that is, when moving the pen, the tip of the pen is biased on one side of the dot painting. The dot paintings often have disadvantages such as uneven weight and light on one side. In general, calligraphers take the bias as a failure.

Lateral striker refers to a method of using the pen when the pen is in the position between the center and the partial front. The flank pen is a necessary complement to the center pen. As the ancients said, "the demolition of difficulties is to take strength, and the side is to take beauty."

We are in Wang Xizhi, Su Shi, Mi Fu and other calligraphy works often can be a royal stool to see the use of side strokes.

2. Pro post. Should start from the seal book practice, to copy the "Yishan stele", this stele with a pen is relatively simple, the thickness of the line is symmetrical, it is a test of the ability to control the pen, and its lines are in the round and even pen condensed with thick power, moisturizing but not soft, smooth but not slippery. That is, I want to write this tablet well, and my hands must be stable and powerful.

For example, there are many strokes that are drawn circles, and it is necessary to adjust the center line to make the circle even, and you can also write circles in two strokes, but people should not see the combination point, like a wash out.

There are also many curves that should also be turned around at angles. Many people in the industry call writing "Yishan Stele" "hand washing", in order to wash away their previous habits by copying "Yishan Stele", and can get rid of the weak, vulgar, absurd and oblique problems in writing. Wash away the glitz and learn the small seal with a pure heart.

3. Basic exercises.

It is also a good training method to practice drawing arrows and Go boards on paper with a brush. Here's a basic exercise. Cantilever written horizontally and vertically.

The lines are spaced about 4 centimeters apart. Just practice with old newspapers. It is usually practiced in the half of the pages of a large newspaper.

Draw a circle in the middle of the written grid, one clockwise and one counterclockwise, about the size of a ping-pong ball.

Draw an oval again. You can draw clockwise and counterclockwise, but if you are for the seal script, it is advisable to start from the top ** and draw on the left and right sides like writing brackets, and the vertical and flat ones should be practiced. In fact, this practice is not only for seal calligraphy, but also for other calligraphy and Chinese painting.

These methods are practiced frequently, and they are practiced every day, and they are very rewarding.

The action specification of the pen. In fact, there is no definite way to hold the pen, with comfort, practicality, casualness, and dexterity as the leading, all in all, it can be the most accurate and reasonable completion of the "heart and hand integration" as the biggest rule, regardless of the size of the word, are conducive to making the actual effect of horizontal and vertical skimming and dotting lines to get the most idealized full play. Strengthen the professional skills of the pen.

If the pen is static and the data is stable, the pen is changing, and the difficulty coefficient of the guidance is more harmonious, and the theory is stronger. Therefore, the pen can be debugged and shaped, and the pen must be practiced. The first is to improve the layering of textures.

You can first grasp the relationship between brushstrokes and drawings according to line exercises such as circles, lines, and arcs.

Then, according to the in-depth imitation training, to perceive and summarize the methods of concealment, lifting, turning, frustration, rhythm, and rate, the key is to produce perceptual understanding of the key points of action such as line writing, line writing, and pausing pen and solidify them as unconscious memory. All in all, the key is to strengthen objective cognition by posting, and work ability by writing metrics. The ideal state of the pen.

Not too soft and too loose, with Zhang Youchi, handy, and eight-sided striker is the best state. For people who have a certain basic writing, the pen can not be controlled, the pen is dead, the words are stiff, and the outline of the writing is all the jerky and unattractive wireframe of mechanical equipment.

The pen can not be too smooth, too presumptuous and casual although it is a god, easy to lose in coincidence, there are some rivers and lakes calligraphy fake style, messy, or into the pen can not be, the letter horse reins, in essence, the adjustment is not very good pen, are not advisable. How effective is the practice control pen? It can be said that the art level of calligraphy is great, how much can the ability to control the pen, we often say that the key to the practice of techniques is two points, one is the technique, the other is the construction of words, which is also the external shape, and all this must be the essence of time, for example, the traditional martial arts proverb says"If you don't practice martial arts, you will be empty when you get old".

The ability to control the pen is to complete according to the mind of the technique, and the pen control training is a long-term exploration and learning process, accompanied by the gradual advancement of each person's learning of calligraphy, the difficulty factor"Ranked"Raise accordingly.

Because calligraphy is a law. In fact, since we pick up the pen and gradually learn to write, we have begun to exercise the ability to control the pen. When it comes to the real and conscious imitation of calligraphy, the self-awareness and initiative of controlling the pen are more clearly established.

Due to the gradual characteristics of the four treasures from the pen to the study, each stage is created by the opening technique, and from the implementation of the technique to the writing practice activities, it is all carried out with the help of the technique to manipulate the pen. There is a saying that everyone holds the pen and beckons to the hand, and the soft pen is the technique. Therefore, it is uncontrollable to depart from the pen.