The types of calligraphy works include nave, banners, horizontal shawls, long scrolls, hand scrolls, album pages, bucket squares, round lights, fan faces, couplets and plaques.
Calligraphy is an art with various forms and styles. It can be said that a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend. The styles of calligraphy works are also called "styles", and the more common styles are banners, nave, couplets, long scrolls, album pages, fan faces, bucket squares and letters. Here, combined with the classic works of traditional calligraphy, they are introduced respectively.
Among them, banners, nave, couplets and plaques have certain internal relations, so they are developed together; There are also some internal relations among long scrolls, album pages, fans, bucket squares and letters, which are also described together.
banners are long works written vertically. When creating, we should pay attention to the primary and secondary relationship between the text and the inscription, and the inscription should be patchy, natural and vivid. There are often more than four forms of expression, which is the strip screen style. There are four screens, six screens, eight screens, ten screens and twelve screens, etc., and a wide and short horizontal work is a banner.
(2) nave
nave was originally a painting and calligraphy style hanging in the middle of the hall, with a large rectangular work (or Chinese painting work) written vertically in the middle, and couplets with appropriate proportions on both sides. Characterized by a large space, the size is generally a whole piece of rice paper, which is divided into four feet, six feet, eight feet, etc., and generally adopts the content of big characters or multi-words.
(3) Plaque
The works written on the plaque are generally big names, with few words and large word diameter, so they are sometimes called "the plaque of the list book". It is necessary to write a full and solemn face, giving people a feeling of grandeur. From another point of view, this kind of product is the expanded version and the small print version of the banner.