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Author: Chen Ruo Hai (Editor)
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Publishing Date: 2004-11-01
Features: This tutorial focuses on techniques, covering aspects such as strokes, radicals, structure, and composition in clerical script. It emphasizes making basic techniques comprehensive, microscopic, specific, and highly operational. The selected examples are highly targeted, and the accompanying text is concise yet to the point.
Clerical script is primarily a static script style, with its strokes, radicals, and structures following certain norms and relatively fixed patterns. Therefore, many calligraphy enthusiasts regard it as the entry-level script for learning calligraphy, and many teachers also choose it as the first script for students to learn. Many calligraphers throughout history have practiced clerical script, leaving behind numerous clerical script relics with varying styles. This provides ample choices for later learners. However, the famous clerical script works that have had a profound impact on calligraphy history remain excellent models. Based on this consideration, this tutorial, Clerical Script Practice by Famous Calligraphers Through the Ages, selects eight works: the Zhang Menglong Stele and Zhang He’nu Mausoleum Inscription from the Northern Wei period, the Liquanming Stele by Ouyang Xun from the Tang Dynasty, the Yanta Shengjiao Xu by Chu Suiliang, the Dabao Ta Stele and Yanqinli Stele by Yan Zhenqing, the Xuanmi Ta Stele by Liu Gongquan, and the Moyan Temple Record by Zhao Yu from the Yuan Dynasty.
This tutorial focuses on techniques, covering aspects such as strokes, radicals, structure, and composition in clerical script. Its key features are:
First, enhancing editorial content. From the development and argumentation of the topic, the outline writing, the selection of authors, the choice of calligraphy book versions, and the design of the cover and layout, the editorial team is fully involved and actively seeks expert advice, striving to present high-quality content to readers.
Second, improving writing quality. This tutorial emphasizes making basic techniques comprehensive, microscopic, specific, and highly operational. The selected examples are highly targeted, and the accompanying explanations are concise yet to the point.
The Yanta Shengjiao Xu is a representative work by Chu Suiliang. This stele features an elegant and delicate style. Its strokes are slender, expansive, and powerful; its structure is open, reminiscent of the lingering charm of Han clerical script. When practicing this stele, one should appreciate its light yet precise brushwork and the skillful use of pressure and release. Attention should also be paid to balancing softness with strength, ensuring thinness without weakness.