What is vertical and horizontal writing?

Vertical and horizontal writing generally means writing 8 or 9 words in each column from right to left? (such as ancient poems in calligraphy works).

Hard pen calligraphy, horizontal manuscript paper is long left and right, vertical manuscript paper is long up and down. Horizontal writing is horizontal writing, and vertical writing is vertical writing (from top to bottom, from right to left). Hard-pen calligraphy is comfortable and natural to write horizontally.

Vertical writing and horizontal writing and neat introduction are common creative techniques used by many calligraphers.

Extended data:

Vertical writing, whether ancient or present, starts from the right. Punctuation is not used in half of ancient Chinese, and two words are added to each paragraph in modern Chinese. In the process of the article, the place that needs to be paused is blank or punctuation.

The basic shape of Chinese characters is square, but through the expansion and contraction of stippling and the torsion of axis, various moving shapes can also be formed, thus combining into beautiful calligraphy works.

The form of the knot is mainly influenced by two factors: one is the need to express the interest of calligraphy; The second is the formal factors of calligraphy performance.

As far as the latter is concerned, it is mainly reflected in three aspects: first, the influence of calligraphy, such as the vertical rectangle of seal script; Second, the influence of glyphs, some of which are oblate and some are rectangular; The third is the influence of composition.

Therefore, only under the control of the above two factors can we create beautiful knots by actively creating forms.