Hard-pen calligraphy is a wonderful flower in the hundred gardens of calligraphy art, and 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. It has the characteristics of convenient carrying, quick writing and wide use value. 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.
Hard pen calligraphy is divided into hard pen calligraphy art and practical hard pen calligraphy. The former mainly emphasizes artistry, while the latter mainly emphasizes practicality. The artistry of hard-pen calligraphy mainly expresses the writer's understanding and feeling of calligraphy art through the changes of lines and structures.
It pursues beauty, affection, interest, artistic conception, personality, etc. Practical hard pen calligraphy, that is, daily writing, is mainly to meet the needs of practicality and facilitate writing and identification. The key is to make the writing fast and standardized, so the practical hard pen calligraphy is mainly running script.
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 with hard pen or made with soft pen cannot be violated, otherwise they will not be recognized. Therefore, Chinese characters written by hard pen can still show the traditional style of Chinese characters more or less. Soft pen and hard pen have their own characteristics. What are the characteristics of Chinese characters written by hard pen?
When we regard the strokes written by soft pen as "faces" in a "fuzzy" way of thinking, we can also regard the strokes written by hard pen as "lines". We regard hard pen strokes as "lines" because it can't basically express the expressive force of soft pen strokes on the contrast of line thickness changes (except for irregular hard pens).
Hard pen is just a line, and the traditional "turning point" technique has lost its practical significance. The Chinese characters written in this way are just a combination of lines, which is a bit like the "steel wire seal" created by the Qing Dynasty. Based on running script, some cursive writing methods are used for reference to meet the needs of daily work, study and life.
Mainly pens, including ballpoint pens and pencils. Practical hard pen calligraphy mainly emphasizes practicality, but it emphasizes artistry. Practical hard-pen calligraphy can be written easily and recognized easily. The key is to write quickly and regularly. Running script is easy to write and can be written quickly, and the standard running script is easy to identify. Therefore, practical hard-pen calligraphy is mainly based on running script.