1. Hard-pen calligraphy is a kind of calligraphy art. In China calligraphy art, hard-pen calligraphy is usually written with pen, gel pen, artistic pen, pencil and chalk. With ink or powdery medium as the main carrier, it is convenient to carry and write quickly, which can exercise perseverance and is conducive to the coordinated development of brain and brain.
2. Hard pen calligraphy and writing are not exactly the same thing. Hard-pen calligraphy refers to the writing method of writing some words within the prescribed scope of calligraphy. You can also write so-called beautiful words outside the prescribed scope of calligraphy, but you can still look good when you write them. This is the origin of the so-called "handwriting" and "Jianghu customs". By the way, it is derogatory to say that a person's handwriting is "Jianghu", which means that some of his own writing methods are not written according to the ancient calligraphy rules. There are also many handwritten copybooks on a treasure. I don't advise you to buy them. Although beautiful, many of them do not meet the requirements of calligraphy and are easy to lead people astray.
Hard pen is a modern product. The real aesthetic and evaluation criteria of hard-pen calligraphy should require that the characters written with hard-pen should be close to those written by the ancients in terms of overall frame structure and brushwork. Because hard pen can't reflect the thickness change of strokes, we can only try to approach brush calligraphy from other aspects. Let's talk about how to improve the level of hard pen writing from several aspects.