Danqing

After returning home, father Tan made a lot of strict demands on Chen Kezhi when he practiced calligraphy.

Chen Kezhi temporarily stopped practicing other fonts, and devoted himself to learning Xiaozhuan. His pen has not changed, and it is still the center of a year ago.

He asked Tan's father why he didn't change to a smaller pen, and Tan's father said that one should not be opportunistic when practicing steady hands.

"Big pens can write small characters, but small pens can't write big characters. Using big pens to write small characters can improve your skills."

Chen Kezhi experienced the shaking of his hands again.

Steady hands are the basic skills for practicing calligraphy. Chen Kezhi stood for a full week before formally learning calligraphy. After that, he mostly practiced standing up. It made Chen Kezhi dizzy.

"Use this pen to draw mosquito coils. The rounder the better, the size of the circle is up to you, and the thickness of the lines should be controlled at three to four millimeters. Just finish drawing this paper today."

The wool brush is soft, and Chen Kezhi has been using it to write running script. Although it is a bit big, it has no effect if it is well controlled.Now writing Xiaozhuan is a big disadvantage. He has to control the force of the pen within a very precise range. The mosquito coil is in the shape of a circle. His wrist is always spinning, and his joints are sore after only a few circles.

"Take a break after finishing the whole painting. You can stop halfway, but you can't let the ink smear." Father Tan said, and then poured some water into the saucer to dilute the original thick ink.

After Chen Kezhi evened out the ink, he tried to stipple it on the rough edged paper, and the ink stippled into a big ball at once.

Chen Kezhi was so depressed that he wanted to curse.

How do you write when the ink is so thin?

The finished ink is generally thicker, especially the ink from Yidege. When it is used for practice, it needs to be mixed with a little water, but it is easier to smudge after dilution, and the words will become a paste. Father Qin deliberately added water to make it more difficult for Chen Kezhi. Pour too much.

The children who were practicing calligraphy together looked at Chen Kezhi sympathetically.

Chen Kezhi only finished painting five mosquito coils after the group of children finished their practice in the morning, and they were crooked and ugly.The mosquito coils painted by Chen Kezhi are basically round, but the line quality is very poor, especially the first one, as long as there is a slight change in the speed of the pen, it will be infinitely enlarged on the rough-edged paper. mm.

Father Tan came in from the balcony after smoking a cigarette, nodded, "It's okay, let's continue practicing."

It took Chen Kezhi seven hours to finish drawing a whole piece of rough-edged paper. Because he was so nervous, he fell asleep on the bed after dinner without even reading a book. Qin Songxue couldn't wake up when he went to find him with a small pillow come over.

After Tan's father knew it, he only told Chen Kezhi. If he didn't want to learn it so hard, he could change it to thick ink, small brush and Shuxuan.Of course Chen Kezhi didn't agree.

Then Father Tan laughed and said, if you can't bear this bit of hardship, then don't be his apprentice, it's too embarrassing to say it.

Qin Songxue also drew a small mosquito coil out of curiosity, but lost his temper after drawing the third circle, and continued to write about his previous practice.Chen Kezhi said don't think this is difficult, you will have to learn it in the future.

Zhou Zhou answered from the side: "Should we also learn in the future?"

Qin Songxue gave Zhou Zhou a strange look, why do you want to learn?

Chen Kezhi was speechless by Tan Songxue, knocked him on the head and said, "Let's see how Master arranges it."

Zhou Zhou didn't pay much attention to Tan Songxue, he was relieved after hearing what Chen Kezhi said, he didn't want to learn this at all.

Qin Songxue snorted again.

Without saying a word, Chen Kezhi raised his hand and patted him on the head again, Tan Songxue stuck out his tongue and was honest.

Learning Xiaozhuan was Chen Kezhi's official introduction, and he spent a whole week painting mosquito coils. The first day and the seventh day were completely different. Father Qin was very satisfied with Chen Kezhi.And Chen Kezhi had reached the point where he wanted to vomit when he saw the mosquito coils.

These days, talented and hard-working apprentices can't be found even with a lantern.

Father Tan has reservations about other students who come to write. For example, when he talked to Chen Kezhi about the relationship between Lanting Preface and Xiaozhuan, he chose only when Qin Songxue and Chen Kezhi were present.

"...Take the calligraphy you have practiced, Yan Zhenqing's and Wang Xizhi's seal script is very good, you open their copybooks... Do you see, all of them are center forwards, and there are very few side forwards. Only when you use the center forward will you appear The characters are thick and powerful, and the side front is not enough to eat paper..." (Center has two meanings, one is the length of the brush stroke, and the other is the brushwork)

Father Tan said that he used the center forward and the side forward to draw a horizontal line on the rough-edged paper, and then turned the paper over: "Look, the difference between the center forward and the side forward, the ink of the side forward can't get through at all. You used to write in the face Sometimes I often write the center forward as a winger, so your words are much thinner than mine.”

"You can't write big script without a center, let alone a list of books. Look at Li Si's Xiaozhuan, every stroke is a center, including arc paintings, and there is no side. Wait until you understand "Yishan Monument" before writing "Lanting Pavilion" The realm of "Preface" is different. Next month, I will practice mixing Yan style and Xiaozhuan. The points to pay attention to are still those few. Don't confuse the styles of the two copybooks. When writing the center, try using the "Yishan Bei" style of writing. "

""Yishan Monument" looks simple. You won't think so after writing it for so long. Its rules are easy to master, but the pen is the most challenging. Write an eight-foot couplet for me in three months. Look, if it works, let’s test the waters at this year’s county fair.”

There is no age limit for low-level calligraphy exhibitions. There are not many people practicing Xiaozhuan in S city, and even fewer in county towns.Father Tan wants Chen Kezhi to use Xiaozhuan to make a big splash—it's time for his apprentice to take him out for a walk.

If painting mosquito-repellent incense can be called extremely strict and perverted, Father Qin's demands on Chen Kezhi later on are simply inhumane.

When there was an exhibition near New Year's Day, Father Tan took a steel ruler and guarded the couplets that Chen Kezhi was writing.

After writing a word, Father Tan used a steel ruler to measure the distance between each picture. If the width was not the same, he would immediately rewrite it with a cross next to it, until each word was as neat and round as it was printed.Moreover, Father Tan also limited the lines to a width of two millimeters, which is more precise than three millimeters, and it is easier to see the shaking and bending of the strokes.

Chen Kezhi practiced the sixteen characters for almost a month. None of the children who practiced calligraphy came on the day of writing. Father Tan and Chen Kezhi stayed in the study for a whole day. The eyes are full of lines like iron wires.

Father Tan looked at the finished product after he had been busy for nearly half a year. This was the first time Chen Kezhi tried the water. The shape and strokes of the characters were no longer faulty.After all, he is a child who is almost ten years old, so it is really difficult for him to write such a work.

Father Tan did the post-processing. He adjusted the cinnabar and used a duckbill pen to draw out the frame of the white cooked rice. The words can be said to be as thin as cicada's wings, and the bright pink glitters under the light, with the embellished cinnabar, the whole work is brought to life at once.

Chen Kezhi's eyes brightened.

beautiful.

Delicate and elegant, dignified and rigorous.

Qin Lisi's Xiaozhuan is the real nobleman among the four styles of calligraphy.

The emperor established the country, Weichu was in the past, and his successors became kings.Crusade against chaos and rebellion, move the four poles of power, and Wuyi Zhifang.The military ministers were ordered, and after a short time, the six violent forces were eliminated.

The words are sonorous and powerful.

The reason why the official script is called the official script is that this font was created in the prison by Cheng Miao, a prisoner who was once a slave, while Xiaozhuan is a font exclusively used by the royal family, and ordinary people are not qualified to write it.

Official script and seal script are different from cloud and mud.

The couplet was finally given to the county calligraphy association before New Year's Day. As father Tan expected, although Chen Kezhi's handwriting was severely flawed, it still caused an uproar among the group of old men.

For Chen Kezhi, a dark horse, there are envy, jealousy, and disdain, but there is no suspense about his entry into the exhibition.What he participated in was not a children's exhibition. He was standing on the same platform as those so-called old calligraphers who had practiced for decades.

So the three characters Chen Kezhi became famous, and everyone who practiced calligraphy knew that Tan Bo'an had accepted a genius student.

But Tan's father still didn't take him to any activities organized by the Book Association.

Tan Songxue and Chen Kezhi were well protected by Tan's father in the ivory tower, and they didn't hear anything outside the window.

Chen Kezhi's participation in the exhibition was not mentioned to his parents. When his mother was at school, the art teacher told her that her son had become famous.

Chen's mother knew that Chen Ke's handwriting was not bad, but she was overjoyed by the sudden praise.Originally, she let Chen Kezhi hone his temperament, so she thought that her son was at that level after Chen Kezhi hadn't won an award in the past few years, and she was quite critical of Chen Kezhi's spending time on practicing calligraphy recently.This completely changed her opinion. Her son really has some level.

Father Tan didn't care about this at all. For Chen Kezhi, it's fine to show his face at the county exhibition. Next year, he must prepare for the fair.Although Xiaozhuan is good now, it is not 100% sure that it will enter the market.

Chen Kezhi nodded to show that he understood.

Regarding Chen Kezhi's entry into the exhibition, all the students that Father Tan accepted later also knew about it, and some parents who originally wanted to change teachers also settled down and stopped making such plans. After all, they have seen Father Tan's level. Can you be sure that the next one to enter the exhibition is not their own child?

And Chen Kezhi has also completely established the status of "big brother", even the oldest Zhou Zhou has to obey, and Tan Songxue has become the most proud little follower.

But what made Tan Songxue happiest this winter was that his mother was coming back, and he was excited about it for several nights, and kept up until almost twelve o'clock.As the final exam was approaching, Chen Kezhi had a lot of homework. The ground was slippery after snowing, and he didn't go out for a run, so he was more tired than before. After eleven o'clock, he couldn't hold on anymore, so he slapped Tan Songxue twice on the ass.

"Ouch! Grasshopper, you hit me again!" Tan Songxue was so used to being beaten by Chen Kezhi that he could tell when it was real and when it was just a show. Now Chen Kezhi was clearly warning him.

"Stop making noise and go to bed!" Chen Kezhi said with a dark face.

"Grasshopper, do you want to sleep? I sang because I was so happy that my mother is coming back. Don't be angry..." Tan Songxue smiled and slipped into Chen Kezhi's arms, and kissed Chen Kezhi's chin.

"Grasshopper, don't be angry..." Electric blankets are not good for children's health. Father Chen didn't spread them for them, but just put a hot water bottle inside the quilt.Chen Kezhi was hot, and Tan Songxue clung to him naturally.

"I think you are so amazing, you just wrote a couplet and scared (scared) those old men to death!" Chen Kezhi couldn't see Tan Songxue's expression, but he could imagine the look on that little face.Originally, Tan Songxue and Chen Kezhi were competitors, but after the group of students came, Tan Songxue automatically put himself on Chen Kezhi's front, and when Chen Kezhi entered the exhibition, he was only happy and forgot to be jealous.

"Writing seriously, you can do the same in the future... go to sleep." Chen Kezhi turned on the light.

"Good night, Grasshopper." Tan Songxue propped herself up and kissed Chen Kezhi on the face.

In the dark, Chen Kezhi seemed to remember something, and suddenly said: "Qiaoqiu, do you remember what I told you before?"

"I remember, when I kiss you, you can't be seen by others! I won't tell them that I will be your wife when we grow up! This is our secret!"

"good……"