Is there a conflict between a brush and a hard pen?

Tian Zeng, a tutor of calligraphy graduate students at Nankai University, once said, "The brushwork is good, the hard pen must be good, and the hard pen is good, but the brushwork is not necessarily good." I deeply agree with you, but I want to make a slight change: "The calligraphy is good. If you practice more, it will be fine to write hard. " Hard pen is good, brush writing is not necessarily good! Column such as Pang Zhonghua! "Practice writing brush first, then hard pen, or both. It is wrong to practice hard pen before brushing! Get twice the result with half the effort Because hard-written characters draw nutrients from brush characters, especially regular script, the method is profound and strict, "regular script method does not deceive"! The phenomenon you mentioned has been encountered by beginners. Hard pen is different from brush pen, for example, some strokes are difficult to write with brush pen. Hard writing is easier and less "particular". Hard pen is hard pen, there is no need to write as thoroughly as calligraphy. But from many hard-pen copybooks, we can clearly see the traces of calligraphy. The structure is eternal and the brushwork is different. With more practice, you can do it easily! Tian himself is also the president of Tianjin Hard Pen Calligraphy Association, but he advocates beginners to learn hard pen, and it is best to copy the ancient calligraphy brush plaque directly, which was the first to introduce classics. There is an old calligrapher here. I have seen his hard pen handwriting. Although the brushwork is not particular, the handwriting looks comfortable and beautiful. The reason lies in the good structure. This is the similarity between a brush and a hard pen. In addition, the structures of "big characters" and "small characters" are also different. Large characters (such as brush block letters) should be compact in structure, while small characters (such as brush block letters and pen words) should be "loose" in structure. I hope these can help you!