Writing fan in calligraphy mainly refers to writing and painting on folding fans.
this is a unique form of ancient Chinese painting.
It is an elegant thing for China literati to exchange fans and cooperate in painting and calligraphy on the fan.
Folding fan is difficult to write because of uneven fan surface and many creases, so it is difficult to create on folding fan.
Zhu Yunming, a painter and calligrapher in the Ming Dynasty, once compared painting on a fan to a beautiful woman dancing on the rubble.
The folding fan is different from the normal form of calligraphy creation. If you want to have a successful work, you should make full use of the characteristics of the fan to create calligraphy.
There are three points for attention:
1. Create flatness; Some successful calligraphers have a well-made fan frame, and they clamp the fan very flat before writing.
2. Adjust the writing direction; Folding fan shape is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, with creases in it. Therefore, when writing, you should return to the line and write along the crease.
3. Pay attention to the layout to achieve overall perfection; There are two common layout forms:
one is to make good use of the upper and lower ends; That is, the layout of writing one or two words near the top of each line.
one is that the top line is uneven, and the long and short lines are written alternately; The font size is coordinated and the space density is appropriate.
here are two common fan-shaped calligraphy layouts.