Chinese Writing and Calligraphy

Index

261 index abdomen, 32, 70 abstract art, 192, 193 adjustment of strokes, 88, 95 alphabetic writing, 16 appreciation (of calligraphy), 180–183 balance, 91–93 binary oppositions, 176–178 borrowing, 78, 116 brain (and calligraphy), 18 breathing (when writing), 35 Bronze Script, 107 brush, 21–23, 36, 39, 195; in modern calligraphy, 190 brush grip, 34 brush tip, 50 cai Lun, 25, 116 Cang Jie, 5, 102 center tip technique, 50–51, 53 character size, 31, 32, 144; of inscriptions , 160 Chinese dating method, 123–126 Chinese lunar calendar, 161 Chinese names, 56–60 Chinese zodiac, 127, 172 civil service examinations, 10–13, 133 Clerical Script, 101, 115–122, 130 Clerical Transformation, 118, 196 composition of a piece, 155–164, 170 compound characters, 75, 86-88 concealed tip technique, 51–53, 178 Confucianism, 57, 97, 134, 175 copying, 28, 30–31; in Running and Cursive Styles, 152 couplets, 6–7 creation of Chinese characters, 5. See also Cang Jie index 262 Cursive Style, 42, 102, 140, 147–152 curved lines, 65 Daoism, 175, 178, 180, 185 dating a piece, 161–162 dialectics (of calligraphy), 176–178 direction of writing. See text arrangement dot (stroke), 42–44; in Clerical Script, 122 down-left slant (stroke), 52–54, 91; in Clerical Script, 120 down-right slant (stroke), 54–56, 91; in Clerical Script, 121 emperor Huizong. See Song Huizong eye (use of), 31, 35 finger positions. See brush grip flow of energy, 52, 70, 141, 143, 147, 149, 152, 177, 182, 184 formation of Chinese characters, 2, 17 general-to-specific pattern, 57, 82, 126, 162 generational names, 56, 57 given names, 58-60 Great Seal Script, 100–108 grid paper, 30 ground calligraphy, 15, 185, 187 hard-pen calligraphy, 147, 187 health (and calligraphy), 15, 185 hook (stroke), 62–64 horizontal line (stroke), 41, 45–46, 52, 65, 93, 94, 95; in Clerical Script, 119; in small seal, 112 Huai Su, 151 indicatives, 77 ink, 23–25, 35, 36, 149; in modern calligraphy, 190 ink stone, 26–27, 32 ink making, 23, 26–27 inscriptions, 21, 157, 160–166 intaglio (seal), 172 lifted wrist, 33 Liu Gongquan, 31, 134–136 location (of work), 162 logographs, 74 main text (of a piece), 96–98, 157–160 meditation, 185 model characters, 3, 31, 32, 66 modern calligraphy, 187, 191 moisture, 36 multiple-component characters. See compound characters name of recipient, 163–164 number of characters in Chinese, 17, 75 number of strokes in characters, 17, 67–69 painting (Chinese), 13, 22, 24, 38, 138, 157, 190, 192 paper, 3, 25–26, 35, 116, 168; in modern calligraphy, 190 personal names, 3. See also given names pictographs, 73–77, 80, 196 posture, writing, 32–34 pressing and lifting, 38–40, 66 pressure (on brush), 37, 117 Qi (life force), 177 regular Script, 36, 42, 71, 85, 102, 139; with hard pen, 188 relief (seal), 172 revealed tip technique, 51, 52, 178 rhythm, 178, 179 right-up tick (stroke), 55–56 Running Style, 42, 71, 102, 140–147 index 263 script styles, 153; for inscriptions, 160; for learning, 2, 42 seals, 157, 164–174; seal engraving, 171– 173; seal types, 171 semantic compounds, 77 semantic element in characters. See semantic -phonetic compounds semantic-phonetic compounds, 78–80, 116 shape of characters, 108; in Clerical Script, 118; in Regular Script, 130; in Small Seal, 110, 113 Shell-and-Bone Script, 76, 102–107, 196 side tip (technique), 50–51 signature, 56, 162 single-component characters, 75, 85 sixty-year cycle, 123–126 Slender Gold, 13, 137 Small Seal Script, 9, 69–70, 101 Song Huizong, 136–138 sound element in characters, 78–79 space management, 157, 158, 182 strokes, 17, 40–42, 65; in Small Seal, 110–112 stroke count. See number of strokes in characters stroke linking, 141–144, 148 stroke order, 48, 67–71, 143 surnames, 57–58 suspended wrist, 33 text arrangement, 17, 48, 108, 144, 158 thickness of stroke, 38, 65, 110, 112, 116, 117 tracing, 28, 29–30, 47; in Running and Cursive Styles, 152 training procedure, 3, 27–32 translation (or transliteration) of Western names, 59–60 tuft, 21, 23 turn (stroke), 61–62; in Clerical Script, 122 twelve-year cycle. See Chinese zodiac vertical line (stroke), 41, 46–47, 52, 64– 66, 69, 91–95; in Clerical Script, 120; in Small Seal, 112 Wang Xizhi, 3, 31, 66, 131–132, 145 water calligraphy. See ground calligraphy wave...