What is hard pen calligraphy?

1. What is hard pen calligraphy? Hard-pen calligraphy is a wonderful flower in the hundred gardens of calligraphy art, and its writing tools include pens, ballpoint pens, dip pens, pencils, plastic pens, bamboo pens, wooden pens and iron pens. , with ink as the main carrier, showing China's writing skills. It has the characteristics of convenient carrying, quick writing and wide use value. The difference between it and the brush pen is that it changes the rough stippling of the soft pen into a slender stippling, and removes its tendons and bones.

Many people think that the origin of hard-pen calligraphy can be traced back to ancient times, when people used stone tablets and knives to depict tortoise shells and animal bones, which proved that hard-pen calligraphy was an art form before brush calligraphy. However, knives and stone chips are far from the hard pen writing tools we use now, and there are still some differences between description and writing. This is why calligraphy and seal cutting are always two kinds of arts, although they are inextricably linked. Comparatively speaking, I prefer to trace the history of seal cutting back to Oracle Bone Inscriptions.