The questions you can ask about calligraphy are as follows:
When you are new to hanging your wrists, your hands will tremble. What should you do? You must study hard and practice hard and persevere. There are two methods: one is to hold the pen upside down or a chopstick when you are free, hold it according to the correct way of holding the pen, raise your wrist, and circle around the table. After a period of practice, your wrist will gradually become more flexible. Stablize.
The other is to place your left hand flat on the table when writing, and rest your right wrist on the back of your left hand to write. This practice is called "pillowing your wrist" (Picture 4). After a long time, remove your left hand. , the right hand can also be stable. These two methods can be used at the same time. After practicing for a period of time, you will get results.
How high the wrist should be hung: The height of the wrist hanging, like the height of the pen, depends on the size of the words being written. Generally speaking, when writing Zhongkai characters, the wrist should be about four centimeters away from the table. There are no hard and fast rules when it comes to writing big words, hanging your wrists higher and farther away from the table, and writing small words, hanging your wrists lower, and hanging your wrists closer to the table.
Do you need to hang your wrist when writing in small regular script? When you start practicing Xiaokai, it is difficult to hang your wrists, so you can use the upward method of "pillowing your wrists". You can also "raise the wrist", also called "virtual wrist"
What is "edge": After the pen tip is twisted and flattened, look at it in the sun. There is a transparent part near the tip, which is the "edge". Front". The elasticity of the pen is determined by the "front". The longer the front, the stronger the elasticity. When writing, the tip of the pen falls down when pressed on the paper and straightened when lifted. This is the role of the "edge".
What is "Zhe Feng": "Zhe Feng" is also called "Reverse Front", that is, the pen edge goes in reverse when starting to write. For example, when drawing horizontally from left to right, when writing, first move the pen backward to the left, to the top of the starting point, press down lightly, and then draw to the right; when drawing vertically, from top to bottom, when writing, first reverse the stroke upward, to the top of the starting point. , press lightly to the lower right, and then draw downward.
What is "Hui Feng": "Hui Feng" means going back and forward at the end of the stroke. For example, draw horizontally to the end of the pen, move slightly to the upper right, then press lightly to the lower right, and then move back to the center; draw straight to the end of the pen, gently lift to the upper left, and then move back to the center (Picture 9). Any other strokes such as dot, pick, stroke, and stroke are also written in this way.