Bitter pen refers to the effect of writing on paper after most of the water contained in thick ink is lost. It is easy to appear "false flying white". The dry pens in ancient masterpieces are all slow pens, so they are moist and heavy. Qing Li Dou's "Yangzhou Painting Boat Record Hongqiao Record": "Cheng Sui is good at painting mountains and rivers, purely using dry pen."
Yu Shao talks about woodcut watermark painting: "Woodblock printing artists can be meticulous and bold according to the content and significance of the original painting, and can express themselves incisively and vividly, whether it is dry or intermittent or full of pen and ink."
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Calligraphy is an artistic expression of the unique beauty of words in China and neighboring countries and regions deeply influenced by China culture. Including China calligraphy, Mongolian calligraphy, Arabic calligraphy and English calligraphy. His China Calligraphy is a unique traditional Chinese character art in China.
Calligraphy in a broad sense refers to the writing rules of characters and symbols. That is to say, calligraphy refers to writing with its brushwork, structure and composition according to the characteristics and significance of words, making it a beautiful work of art. China's calligraphy is an original performance art of the Han nationality, which is known as silent poetry, wireless dance, unpainted painting, silent music and so on.
Hard-pen calligraphy is a kind of line writing and plastic arts that express Chinese characters with hard pen. Its "line writing" refers to the method of expressing various strokes of Chinese characters with hard pen, and its "modeling" refers to the structure and composition of Chinese characters. The writing tools of soft pen calligraphy are different from those of hard pen calligraphy. The writing tools of hard pen calligraphy are pens, ballpoint pens, dip pens, pencils, plastic pens, bamboo pens, wooden pens, iron pens and so on. With ink as the main carrier, it shows the writing skills of China people.
Hard pen calligraphy is widely used, and children have been exposed to it since school. It can be said that everyone knows the writing skills of hard pen calligraphy, and the more opportunities to practice, the less difficult it is. Although some people's handwriting may not be beautiful enough, soft pen calligraphy is different, because it is used less and not very popular unless you go to an interest class.