Modern hard-pen calligraphy mainly focuses on learning ancient calligraphy and brushing posts, that is, hard-pen calligraphy and brushing posts Hard pen calligraphy is a wonderful flower in the hundred gardens of calligraphy art, and it is a kind of calligraphy. Its writing tools include pens, ballpoint pens, dip pens, pencils, plastic pens, bamboo pens, wooden pens and iron pens. , with ink as the main carrier, showing China's writing skills. Convenient to carry, fast to write and widely used. The difference between it and the brush pen is that it changes the rough stippling of the soft pen into a slender stippling, and removes its tendons and bones.
Many people think that the origin of hard-pen calligraphy can be traced back to ancient times, when people used stone tablets and knives to depict tortoise shells and animal bones, which proved that hard-pen calligraphy was an art form before brush calligraphy. However, knives and stone chips are far from the hard pen writing tools we use now, and there are still some differences between description and writing. This is why calligraphy and seal cutting are always two kinds of arts, although they are inextricably linked. Comparatively speaking, we prefer to trace the history of seal cutting back to Oracle Bone Inscriptions.
Learning hard-pen calligraphy should not only pursue high-level artistic level, but also pay attention to its practical value. To embody practical value, it is necessary to write correctly, regularly and symmetrically. Chinese characters written by hard pen or by soft pen cannot be violated, otherwise they will not be recognized by others. Therefore, Chinese characters written by hard pen can still show the traditional style of Chinese characters more or less.