Don’t forget your original intention and you will always be able to succeed in cursive calligraphy, as shown below:

Flower calligraphy is also called miscellaneous calligraphy, which is a type of artistic calligraphy. It is precisely because of its large size The artistic composition of some hybrids. It can be said that the miscellaneous calligraphy style that relies on artistic patterns and shapes is the bulk of the miscellaneous calligraphy style, regardless of its type or quantity. ?

In our country, just take the Bird and Insect Book that appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period as an example. The artistic elements in the curly calligraphy adopted a patterned composition method from the beginning. To a certain extent, it is a kind of decorative craftsmanship. Looking at the development of Niao Chong Shu in this period, the ornaments such as birds, phoenixes, dragons and insects have been used as exterior decorations of the text, and have become more and more mainly components of text strokes or radicals, indicating the modeling techniques of cursive characters such as Niao Chong Shu. Increasingly mature. These ornaments are mainly represented by single or double hook lines, with some partial filling or image variation on the lines. After line processing, the figurative nature of the ornaments is weakened. For the sake of modeling and limited by the vertical structure of the characters, only a few parts of the ornaments of the cursive characters are increased and complicated, and most of them are simplified and deformed. In this way, the abstraction of the ornaments and the patterned effect of the text are significantly enhanced.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, there were various decorations for cursive characters, and there was a phenomenon that characters were entirely composed of patterns. Take the bird seal pot inscriptions on Liu Sheng’s tomb and some bird calligraphy seals as examples. These are some of the more miscellaneous calligraphy styles. A sure hint of relying more on art patterns for styling. At the same time, the patterns of cursive characters are further simplified. On the one hand, the lines of the pattern are becoming more and more simplified and merged. On the other hand, certain parts of the patterns such as birds, phoenixes, and flowers are omitted. Generally, the bird heads and phoenix crowns are omitted. The other distinctive marks were eventually retained, while the body or paws were omitted or replaced with lines.

From the late Han Dynasty to the Jin and Tang Dynasties, it was possible for the pattern composition of this type of cursive characters to develop from abstract lines to concrete art images. Inferences can be made from the seal characters on some epitaphs covering birds and the characters on the forehead of the stele of the Prince Shengxian of the Tang Dynasty. Under the dual effects of application and aesthetics, cursive calligraphy, both as a whole and as individuals, has a process of continuous occurrence, development, deformation, and transformation. The reference and absorption between various cursive characters gives them something unique. Influenced by different regions, times, and cultures, miscellaneous calligraphy has its own unique characteristics. As a carrier of culture, cursive calligraphy shows people the extremely mysterious, magnificent and moving side of writing, calligraphy and art.