Calligraphy generally uses semi-cooked paper to control pen and ink. Writing with ripe paper is not as varied as semi-ripe paper, and commonly used papers such as Sanjin Xuan paper and Yuanshu paper are used.
Chinese painting can be divided into freehand brushwork and meticulous brushwork. Freehand brushwork is used for propaganda, and editing propaganda is sometimes used.
Meticulous brushwork generally uses cooked Xuan or cooked silk.
The difference between cooked propaganda and raw propaganda is that cooked propaganda is not easy to render paintings suitable for fine workmanship; Winning the election is easy to present the rich changes of pen and ink, which is often used for hearty freehand brushwork. Because it is difficult to control, Chinese painting beginners always start with meticulous brushwork.