Xuan paper, as the main paper of brush calligraphy, including Chinese painting, has various characteristics of absorbing all kinds of soft pen ink and wash. It is no exaggeration to say that there would be no China calligraphy art and China ink painting art without Xuan paper.
Xuan paper is the main paper used in painting and calligraphy creation, which more subtly reflects the artistic interest in painting and calligraphy creation. It is also widely used, besides calligraphy and painting, it can also be used to print valuable books, drawings, folding fans and so on. Because its moth-proof preservation is better than other papers. The so-called "paper lives for thousands of years" also refers to rice paper. Most of Gu Shuhua's existing works in China are created and mounted on Xuan paper, and some of them are still high in color and intact in texture after thousands of years.
Xuan paper is divided into raw Xuan and cooked Xuan. Sheng Xuanyi "eats ink", that is, it is permeable and melts immediately depending on the amount of water. Before buying paper or writing, people like to immerse paper in water to distinguish the permeability between raw paper and cooked paper.
Shengxuan is more suitable for freehand brushwork. In calligraphy, calligraphy works, especially modernist works, which are used to write original cursive scripts with a square inch or more, require great ink color and stroke fluctuation, and the effect is particularly good. Calligraphy generally needs no practice. Health promotion is divided into single promotion, single promotion, double promotion and three-layer promotion, mainly with different thicknesses. A single publicity is suitable for grass, cursive script and lettering with a square inch or more, that is, banners with larger fonts; Jiaxuan is suitable for writing, regular script, official script and seal script to prevent soaking too fast and too big. Those big characters that eat too much ink should also be hidden so as not to scratch the paper. According to the different ingredients, health promotion can be divided into special cleaning, cotton material and clean leather. Seniority decreases in turn. However, it also varies from person to person and from use to use. Some people like to use rice paper with rough texture and outdated color.
Cooked propaganda, also known as alum propaganda, processing propaganda and vegetarian propaganda, is characterized by no shortage of water. Suitable for meticulous painting and fine writing. After alum treatment, this rice paper not only does not dry up, but also maintains various characteristics of raw rice. The flower notes such as Xue Tao Notes and Cheng Xin Tang Paper mentioned above all belong to cooked propaganda, and some tiger skin propaganda used to write couplets is also cooked propaganda.
Hard pen calligraphy has basically become a new kind of calligraphy in the new era, and brush calligraphy is using "paper"