"If a worker wants to do a good job, he must sharpen his tools first." With the pen, ink, paper and inkstone of the study, there will be painters who look at the mountains from a distance and listen to the water silently. Only China Chinese characters record the eternal Chinese civilization; There is an article, "Put pen to paper and shake the wind and rain, and poetry becomes tears"; There is calligraphy floating like a cloud and agile like a dragon.
A short stroke, but it has experienced a thousand years of wind and rain; The management of bamboo and wood is worth tens of thousands of fishing; The soft and delicate front can directly point to the people of the world. Brush is a traditional writing and painting tool in China, which embodies the thoughts of China literati in past dynasties.
It is a colored pen that Jiang Langhuaizhong is reluctant to return, which is covered with the glory of his youth and the melancholy after his talent disappeared; It is a ten-cylinder bald pen collected by monk Zhiyong for many years, which shows the secret of "penetrating the back of the paper" to future generations in the silent grave where the pen is returned; It is a wonderful pen that blooms in Li Bai's dream, symbolizing the peerless talent that all literati dream of ... As the head of Four Treasures of the Study, the brush is not only a good companion for literati to express their feelings, but also a good friend for literati to write and paint. Brush plays an unparalleled and important role in the writing career of literati.
The writing brush has promoted the development of Chinese civilization since its birth. On the painted pottery of Yangshao culture more than 5000 years ago, we can still clearly see the patterns depicted by the brush. There are also many pestles for grinding mineral pigments and concave inkstones for holding pigments in the tombs of Yangshao cultural site. This shows how long the history of the brush inkstone is.
During the Warring States period, the brush unearthed from the tombs of Chu State also had a bamboo pen cover, which proved that the brush was widely used in the Warring States period. Legend has it that Thai general Meng Tian reformed the pen in order to deliver news quickly in the war. He made a light brush, that is, A Qin brush, with camel as the barrel, deer hair as the column, and single hair as the quilt, hence the saying that "Meng Tian writes".
From the paintings of past dynasties, we find that different dynasties have different writing styles. Su Shi once said: "There is no fixed way to put pen to paper, but it should be open-minded." Han people who love to write official script like to hold the pen tube with the whole palm; Scholars in Wei, Jin, Tang and Five Dynasties preferred two-finger single hook method and three-finger single hook method, holding pens with two fingers or three fingers. In the Qing dynasty, there were more methods, such as single hook, double hook, four fingers, five fingers back to the wrist and so on.
Now, five-finger writing is the most popular. The posture of five-finger writing is as follows: two elbows are moderately flexed and placed on the ticket surface. The first phalanx of the thumb of the pen holder is close to the inside of the pen tube, and the force is toward the upper right. The first joint of the index finger clings to the outside of the pen holder and cooperates with the thumb to grasp the pen holder. The first and second segments of the middle finger are bent like fish and hooked on the outside of the pen holder. Hold the pen from the inside out with the nail root of the ring finger. The little finger clings to the ring finger, and the traveler rests under the ring finger without touching the pen.