What is pen calligraphy?

Pen calligraphy and its basic knowledge

Calligraphy is the skill of writing. "Book" is writing; "Fa" means methods, skills and rules, that is, the art of writing Chinese characters. It is a unique advanced art form of our Chinese nation.

Pen calligraphy is a kind of line writing and plastic art that uses pen to express Chinese characters. Its "running script" is a method of expressing various strokes of Chinese characters with pens, and its "modeling" is the structure and composition of Chinese characters. Therefore. Pen calligraphy is the same as brush calligraphy, which includes three basic and key factors, namely lines (strokes), structure and composition, which are called the three elements of calligraphy.

The so-called line (stroke) refers to the trace left by the first stroke of Chinese characters on paper. The appearance and image of the same stroke written by writers at different levels are very different.

The so-called structure refers to the correct and ingenious organization of strokes, so that all strokes of each Chinese character are arranged reasonably according to the rules, which meets the aesthetic requirements.

The so-called composition refers to the method of text layout, even if a calligraphy work is beautiful as a whole. It emphasizes the coordination, echo, coherence, density and reflection between words and lines, and makes use of the distribution of black and white, the size of fonts, the distance between words and the state of words equal to the singularity of paragraphs, so that all kinds of words can form harmonious, beautiful and interesting works of art under reasonable and ingenious layout. Can arouse people's aesthetic feeling.

Correct, clear, fluent and beautiful calligraphy. It is not only beneficial to work and study, but also the embodiment of cultural accomplishment and a kind of beautiful enjoyment.