Generally speaking, calligraphy works are composed of words and brushwork. Text has three appearance forms: 1, with lines vertically and columns horizontally; 2. There are columns vertically and no rows horizontally (or columns vertically and rows horizontally).
3. There are no rows in the vertical direction and no columns in the horizontal direction. In calligraphy, the font is smaller than the text, and the style of the book can be consistent with or different from the text, and the style is in harmony with the text. Nanshan Calligraphy Works (3) Appreciation of Nanshan Calligraphy Works (28) From a microscopic point of view, calligraphy should pay attention to the lines and structure of words and the composition and emotion of the whole work. Calligraphy works are divided into soft pen and hard pen, that is, brush and pen, and also into "style", such as regular script, official script, running script, cursive script and seal script.
Hard pen:
The History and Value of Hard Pen/The introduction and use of western pens in Kloc-0/9th century made the Chinese brush, which had been used for more than 2,000 years, gradually retreat to the "second line", which triggered a revolution in the history of calligraphy in China and produced modern hard pen calligraphy.
But for a long time, people in China didn't know that hard pen is an ancient thing in China, and the shape and function of some hard pens are only one step away from modern pens.
The recent research results of Chinese experts show that there is a connection between ancient hard pen and modern pen in China, although it is still difficult to completely sort out the relationship between them at present, which needs further demonstration. However, experts believe that from the similarity of the shape and principle of the pen tongue, it can be seen that the ancient hard pen in China is closely related to the modern western pen and may be its "distant ancestor".