The chicken spur pen is named because the pen tip is shaped like a protruding chicken claw. It is short and sharp. It is a weapon used in battles between roosters. It can be said to be "like a sword or a halberd, which can be struck and fought." . Therefore, the chicken-back pen is labor-saving, fast, and has a strong pen tip. It can effectively control the range of use of the pen tip, and can write beautiful and meticulous cursive, as well as fine and neat regular script.
Carefully observe the ancient paintings, especially the pen tips. The reason why the ancients wrote so carefully and beautifully is because there is a secret on the pen tip: because the ancients usually only dipped the pen tip in ink when writing. The pen tip is the core of pen operation.
The tip of the pen is thin and short, which makes it easier to control the strokes of the pen. But when we were practicing, we found that this was not the case. When writing with a long hair, as long as you use your time and wrist strength, you can also write beautiful characters. The secret comes from the technique of dipping in ink. The famous contemporary calligrapher Sun Xiaoyun has a special discussion on this in "Calligraphy Has Methods". She said: When I was very young, my mother told me to soak only one third of the pen filament and use only the pen tip. My mother said that this is how the previous generations taught us. It can be seen that if you are a beginner, you may wish to dip only a little ink on the tip of the pen, and do not soak the entire brush. When you are done with it, soak it all to practice your writing and wrist strength. After all, there is indeed some truth to what the ancients did. The writing style of Jin people is to bend over the desk or hold a scroll, which requires the brush to be strong and strong. In fact, good calligraphy should be powerful at any time. It is this kind of thick, short and stiff chicken-tip pen that has written countless exquisite masterpieces of beautiful openings.