HOW TO MAKE CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY?

During the Lunar New Year, Chinese calligraphy courses and workshops are organized. This is an opportunity to take an interest in this thousand-year-old art, a gateway to Chinese culture. Does the experience appeal to you? So, let’s summarize the essentials to know to do Chinese calligraphy.

For what reason is it called Ayat al Kursi?

The Ayat Ul Kursi Calligraphy implies Verse of the Seat for example Seat of Power. Each King rules from his seat of force and that is his power base. So does Allah hence He utilizes the term 'Kursi' importance Chair or Seat as it addresses His power base from where He controls whole creation.

HAVE THE ADAPTED CALLIGRAPHY MATERIAL

The tools of the calligrapher reveal the perception that the Chinese have of the world:

Rice or tissue paper is yang, that is, among others, light, masculinity, the sun, and the space where phenomena occur. This white paper can be purchased in rolls or blocks.

The brush embodies the link between yin and yang. Brushes are usually goat, wolf, or marten hair, but can come from other animals. The handle is made with bamboo.

The inkstone allows you to rub the ink stick with water. There are all kinds of them and they are art objects in their own right.

These are the Four Treasures of the Literate. To these essentials, can be added:

·                     A desk pad with sometimes a grid to help beginners place the characters

·                     Paperweights and brush washers with obvious functions

·                     A seal and sealing paste, especially for signing calligraphic works

·                     The objects are decorated or carved, and collected by enthusiasts.

KNOW WRITING STYLES

In a Chinese calligraphy course, you will benefit from a historical description with the particularity of each calligraphic style. To sum up, here are the main ones:

·                     Similarly, the oldest script

·                     Chancellery, scribe, or chancellor

·                     regular or normal

·                     Fluent, fluent, still used to write quickly with a pen

·                     Cursive, old or modern cursive script

The cursive style is referred to as the grass style because the Chinese characters are said to evoke windswept grass. This is the hardest to decipher. In calligraphy, we appreciate it because it leaves great freedom of execution. All of these different styles need to be mastered.

Of course, already knowing Chinese writing makes learning easier. Some decide to initiate themselves to perfect their understanding of the Chinese language or Asian civilizations.

In any case, you will learn to use the writing characters in this order. It is also possible to find books with models for calligraphy.

EXPERIMENTING WITH THE TECHNIQUE: SEARCHING FOR THE NATURAL

Even though we refer to it as beautiful handwriting, such is not the case in Chinese culture. In fact, calligraphers are in search of spirituality and truth through work on oneself. The art of calligraphy requires exercising control over various parameters:

 

·                     The density of black ink according to the brush and the support

·                     The hold of the brushes, the manual force exerted and the direction given      to the lines

·                     The movements and order of each brush stroke during execution

·                     The placement of the character in an imagined perfect square

As in Chinese painting, hesitations and retouching are excluded. This creative process, and the mastery of the gestures it requires, give the work the desired natural effect.

Note that all students in Chinese calligraphy lessons learn to draw the character: 永 (Yǒng). Here we find the eight types of lines that make up the sinograms, so this is an inevitable step. By dint of repetition and improvement, the brushstroke in space will reveal the emotions of the artist. The visual impact will have become unique.

UNIFYING BODY AND MIND IN CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY

The writer must demonstrate concentration, even meditation. There is a specific way to hold Chinese brushes. Thus, the index and middle fingers are behind the thumb in front. The hand is slightly rounded as if an invisible egg was nestled there... The whole posture is worked on. And above all, breathing must be perfectly controlled so as not to tremble or make the line drool.

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