How to hold a pen

Hold the brush as follows:

1. Five-finger pen-holding method: all five fingers of the right hand are used, and the pen is firmly held by the method of "press, hook, stop and reach", so that the fingers can perform their duties. In this way, the strength of the five fingers evenly surrounds the three sides of the pen, making the pen fixed and the palm empty. This is the so-called "five-finger writing", and all five fingers of the right hand come in handy.

2, three-finger brushwork: because people at that time were sitting cross-legged on the ground, some were kneeling, and their buttocks were kneeling. At that time, there were no benches or tables, only machines such as coffee tables. Because the cents were very low, people had to hang their hands when writing. This law spread to Japan and has been used ever since.

3, hand control method: the palm will grab the pen to write. Pinch tube method is to put the fingertips of five fingers together and hold the end of the pen to write.

The importance of pen holding style

Whether the writing method is correct or not is related to whether you can use the brush correctly and conveniently, give full play to the performance of the brush and write beautiful words that meet the requirements. From ancient times to the present, there are various ways to hold a pen.

Su Dongpo, a great calligrapher in Song Dynasty, used a different pen from ordinary people at that time. At that time, someone pointed out that his writing was wrong, but he said that "there is no fixed method for writing, and it should be empty and wide", that is to say, there is no certain standard method for writing, as long as the palm of your hand is empty and flexible. So there is no fixed way to hold a pen, as long as you think it is a good way.