Hard-pen calligraphy has nine forms, such as banners, couplets, nave, bucket squares, plaques, banners, fan faces, album pages and hand scrolls. Banners are mainly long strips of calligraphy and painting, folded in half with rice paper and written on them. Our common couplets (couplets) are composed of two banners.
Structural elements of hard pen calligraphy
There are eight basic rules of hard-pen calligraphy structure: equal spacing rule, stroke order rule, main stroke rule, shortening rule, midline rule, dislocation rule, enclosing structure rule and arrangement rule. The visual difference between hard pen calligraphy and brush calligraphy is that the strokes are thick or thin, just like removing their bones and muscles.