Tang Huairen's "Collected Wang's Holy Teaching Order"

Author: Zhang Baijun (Editor)
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: This tutorial focuses on techniques, covering the strokes, radicals, structure, and composition of 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.
Cursive script is a style that combines movement and stillness. Its strokes, radicals, and structure follow certain norms, yet it is not confined by them, exhibiting distinctive variability. Therefore, cursive script can be appreciated by both the refined and the popular, perfectly blending practicality and artistry, and is deeply loved by people. Many have written cursive script throughout history, leaving behind numerous relics with varying styles, offering ample choices for later generations to learn from. However, some cursive script anthologies have limited characters, and some rubbings are and unclear, making them unsuitable for beginners.
This tutorial focuses on techniques, covering the strokes, radicals, structure, and composition of cursive script. Its key features are:
First, enhancing editorial content. From the development and justification of topics, the drafting of outlines, the selection of authors and script versions, to the design of covers and layouts, editors are fully involved and actively seek expert advice to ensure high-quality delivery 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 Preface to the Holy Teaching collected by Huairong is a stele carved from the cursive script of Wang Xizhi, now preserved in the Xi'an Stele Forest. Although it is a collection of characters carved into stone, its layout is skillfully natural and harmonious in tone. Since many of Wang Xizhi's script anthologies have been lost, many individual characters have been preserved through this stele. When practicing this stele, one should observe the brushwork from the carved stone to understand the lifting, pressing, stopping, and connecting strokes, ensuring the spirit is fully embodied.