As a writing tool for Chinese characters, the pen has the advantages of small size, convenient carrying, convenient writing, durability, and the written characters are not easy to fade. From an aesthetic point of view, although the line expression and artistic appeal of pen characters are not as rich as brush calligraphy, they are far better than other hard pens such as pencils and ballpoint pens, because the nib is elastic and the strokes written are the same thickness.
A beautiful brushwork can also give people beautiful enjoyment. Especially in recent years, with the popularization and improvement of pen and ink teaching, the vast number of pen and ink calligraphy educators and enthusiasts have made beneficial explorations and attempts on the brushwork, structure, composition and style of pen and ink in their teaching and writing practice.
He created many excellent pen calligraphy works, such as regular script, running script, cursive script, official script and seal script. These works have the beauty of form, expression, charm, artistic conception and momentum, forming a sense of beauty with rigorous structure, echoing strokes and smooth bones, enhancing the appeal of pen calligraphy art and being widely praised by the society, making pen calligraphy a big step from simple practicality to artistic style.
Calligraphy is the skill of writing. "Book" is writing; "Fa" means methods, skills and rules, that is, the art of writing Chinese characters. It is a unique advanced art form of our Chinese nation.
Pen calligraphy is a kind of line writing and plastic art that uses pen to express Chinese characters. Its "running script" is a method of expressing various strokes of Chinese characters with pens, and its "modeling" is the structure and composition of Chinese characters. Therefore. Pen calligraphy is the same as brush calligraphy, which includes three basic and key factors, namely lines (strokes), structure and composition, which are called the three elements of calligraphy.