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Beginners in calligraphy, don't use these brushes!
In traditional oriental art, what is written in words is mostly the confirmation of the final realm, but there is little discussion about the introduction. As a result, many people stared at the top floor and accidentally fell to the first floor. There are a lot of people who have been writing for a lifetime, and one of the keys is improper use of tools.
Many people ask: What kind of brush should beginners use to learn calligraphy? Actually, this question is not simple, but we have a simple answer for beginners' reference only.
First, it is not recommended for beginners of calligraphy to use pure lanolin.
Many of us have heard that wool is used by beginners to learn calligraphy, and it is soft and can be used to practice brushwork. This view seems reasonable, but it is groundless. Wool brushes were only popular in the mid-Qing dynasty, and everyone had been using them before that. On the contrary, calligraphy in difficult times is wonderful, but it is not good after using sheep hair. Moreover, a soft brush may not be able to practice writing ability, which depends on active exertion, while too soft wool is easy to develop the bad habit of dragging the brush, which is not conducive to the cultivation of active exertion habit.
Second: Beginners should not use long-pointed brushes.
If the Changfeng brush is made of animal hair, the cost will be scary, so businesses use nylon instead. Nylon is elastic, but not as flexible as animal hair, which is not conducive to the cultivation of hand feeling. In addition, long before and wool, easy to lead to the bad habit of procrastination, so beginners should restrain long before and wool.
Third: Novices should not use nylon brushes.
Many novices buy very cheap pens, but in fact they really get the goods at a price. Nowadays, many brushes are mixed with too much nylon, which is full of strength but unattractive. But ordinary people can't tell the difference between animal hair and wool. This is a little more troublesome, but there is a way. So don't be too stingy with the money to buy a brush. Thirty or fifty dollars still costs money.
Fourth: Beginners should not use big brushes.
How old is it? Anything more than one centimeter in diameter is not used. Think for yourself, it's not difficult. Tip: The ancients basically didn't have to spend a lot of money.
Fifth: The brushes available to beginners are all hard brushes.
There are three kinds of hard pens: wolf hair, purple hair and chicken feathers. Wolf hair is not the coarse hair of the wolf, but the fine hair on the big tail of the wild weasel in the north. Because of the rising price of raw materials, there are hundreds of good wolf brushes, and most of the so-called wolf hairs in our market are nylon products. Purple hair is rabbit hair, which is more valuable than wolf hair, and purple is not durable, so most people can't afford it.
Although pure wolf hair and purple hair are expensive, there is another kind of brush with double brush, that is, the brush tip is wool and the auxiliary brush is ordinary wool or nylon. This reduces the cost and the use effect is good. Let's use these double brushes for beginners. The most famous double both brush is the big white cloud, which is excluded because it is mainly a double both brush. Double brush, mainly hard hair, with seven colors, three sheep and the like, or both (how harmonious) and so on. The quality is not bad, and it is not expensive, so it is suitable for beginners.
What is recommended here is a chicken writing brush, also called little red hair or little red hair, which was probably used by accountants in the past. Chicken feather brush is the cheapest of all kinds of brushes, but it is definitely more expensive than nylon brush, if nylon is considered as hair. In fact, chicken brushes are not all chicken feathers, and there are also some wolves in the middle. Because wolves don't use much, merchants no longer use nylon to fool people, but are real.
Finally, how to tell the difference between a brush and a nylon pen: You can't tell the difference just by looking at it unless you take a high-powered magnifying glass. The front glume of animal hair is streamlined like an arrow cone, while the nylon head is generally needle-shaped or simple cylindrical. Generally speaking, the way to distinguish nylon from animal hair is to use. As soon as the nylon brush is soaked, it is full of energy, stubborn and disobedient. The Beast Mao Mao pen is very soft when it is first soaked, and it becomes more elastic with use. Although elastic, it is soft and smooth.