Pillow wrist is a way to write with your wrist on the table or on the back of your left hand. There is also a kind of bamboo called "handrail", which is used to let go and is usually used in summer. Because it is easy to sweat in summer, the sweat on your hands is easy to wet the paper. Pillow-wrist brush calligraphy is suitable for writing small characters or one-inch square middle characters because the wrist is leaning on the table, but it is difficult to move because the wrist is dead.
If you write bigger words, you have to write by hanging your wrist. Hanging wrist is a writing method in which the wrist holding the pen is suspended, leaving the desktop and the elbow (the protruding and movable part at the joint between the upper arm and the forearm) still leaning against the desk.
In this way, the range of motion of the wrist is larger than that of the pillow wrist method, and the arm and elbow joint are still leaning on the table, which is relatively stable, and you can write in block letters of two or three inches. Write couplets or broken Chinese characters by hanging your elbow.
Hanging elbow is a brush writing method with all the holding arms suspended. This method is the best way to write, no matter whether it is big or small, it can be used freely without any obstacles. It is also a common method used by calligraphers.
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Writing level: appropriate. The level of writing depends on the type and size of the font and the length of the pen tube. Generally speaking, write small words lower, about an inch away from the pen. Too low strokes are cramped and not free.
Write in Chinese letters or big characters, and the pen should be higher, about two inches; Write higher in block letters and cursive pens, about three inches. The higher the pen, the greater the swing range and the easier it is to swing. But it's too high, the pen floats, weak and boneless.
In addition, when writing Chinese characters standing, the twisting tube writing method is usually adopted, that is, the thumb and forefinger, middle finger and ring finger hold the upper end of the pen and hold it high, and the fingers are still required to be solid and virtual, and the fingers are Qi Li. This kind of writing is suitable for writing big characters, or cursive or crazy grass.
To write extra-large characters or topic walls with a bucket pen is to hold the inside of the pen with your thumb and apply force from the inside to the right. Hold the forefinger, middle finger and ring finger side by side on the outside of the barrel, with the direction of force opposite to that of the thumb, with the little finger attached to the bottom, lift your elbow and wrist high, and use your arm instead of the pen. This writing is called "barrel throwing pen".
Another way to write extra-large characters is "double wrist back method". It holds the upper end of the pen holder with its left hand and applies force from left inside to right outside; Hold the lower end of the penholder with your right hand and apply force from the right outside to the left inside.
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