What is a calligraphy scroll?

Calligraphy hand scroll is a banner calligraphy work.

Hand scroll is a kind of flag in Chinese painting mounting. It is the name that you can read in the order that you can hold it in your hand. Because of its long amplitude, it is also called "long scroll".

Calligraphy hand scroll is a special form of calligraphy, because the shape of hand scroll works is always a banner, not a vertical one, and the height is generally within 30-60 cm, and the length is at least 2 meters. ?

Calligraphy scroll is a relatively long banner in calligraphy and painting. Because it is not convenient to hang, it is only convenient to unfold, appreciate and roll by hand, so it is called hand roll. Because the "hand scroll" is relatively long, it is called "long scroll".

Handscroll calligraphy is a long scroll written with a brush in ancient times, or "scroll book", which evolved from bamboo slips and bamboo slips in Qin and Han dynasties and is also a form of ancient books. Because the chapters of ancient books are classified by volume, predecessors have said that "reading thousands of books, walking Wan Li Road" and "reading thousands of books, writing like a god".

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The characteristics of calligraphy hand roll:

First, the length should be at least 3 meters away and the height should be within 50 cm.

Second, there is a complete content.

Third, the book style is unified. ?

Handscroll is a form of calligraphy creation and mounting. There are horizontal works as a whole and a few framed works. In ancient times, it was not a big problem to mix hand scrolls with long scrolls. Now we should call them separately. Generally, the height of the hand roll is about 30 to 40 centimeters, the length is several meters short and the length is more than ten meters.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-handwritten calligraphy