Single hook is a calligraphy term, which means to hold the pen tube and thumb with your index finger. Calligraphy terminology. The name of the fingering. The forefinger grips the pen tube, and the rest of the fingers are placed behind the pen tube. Because only one index finger is used as the main hook, it is called "single hook" as opposed to "double hook".
In the Tang Dynasty, Han said, "Seal script can be made straight and accurate with a single hook." In Yuan Dynasty, Wu's "Learning from the Ancient" also said: "To write a seal writing brush, you only need a single hook, that is, you can point the middle finger under the lining, and Fiona Fang is straight and has no finger." Zhu Luzhen's "Introduction to Calligraphy" in Qing Dynasty said: "The index finger with a single hook is uneven, the index finger is hooked to the big finger, and the middle finger is hooked to the name finger. This is a single hook. " In the Northern Song Dynasty, Su Shi used this method to write books, slightly restraining his pen.
Double hook:
The "five fingers method" (double bracts) of double hook calligraphy, also called "double bracts", is a writing method. Han, a calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, said in "Tips for Giving Pens": "The beauty of Fu Shu lies in its principle, that is, it is both a two-finger tube and a five-finger tube. It should be a virtual palm, and it is also called a delivery, preparing for oral delivery. "
The method is to press outward with a big point, hook the food with the middle finger inward, expose the ring finger outward, and get the little finger stuck under the ring finger, so that all five fingers will come in handy. Five-finger method is also a kind of "double hook". The origin and introduction of double hook calligraphy The so-called "double hook calligraphy" refers to writing a certain style of hollow characters directly in a single line.
This method originated in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, because there was no printing technology, in order to spread the works of famous calligraphers, people drew hollow characters according to the original works and filled them with black ink, so that viewers could get works similar to the original works. Later, this copying method became a way for people to learn calligraphy, and developed into a splendid calligraphy art treasure in China. "Double hook" is also a calligraphy term.
Calligraphy is called "double hook", which is used to draw a stone and hook it out along the outer edges of both sides of its stroke with thin lines. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Jiang Kui said in "Continued Book": "The double hook method requires that the pen and ink should not faint out of the word, or the outline should be filled in it, or Zhu Qi's back should be fat and thin." Lu Fangweng, a great poet in Song Dynasty, praised the charm of "double hook" with his quatrains of "Mo Miao's double hook post".
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The origin time of calligraphy:
According to modern textual research, regarding the origin of China characters, primitive characters have appeared in Jiahu site culture, which is 8,000-9,000 years ago, more than 4,000 years earlier than Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Anyang Yin Ruins, and it is the earliest known prototype of characters. In the past 40 years, there have been many discoveries.
Calligraphy type:
There are three kinds of characters of all nationalities in the world, namely ideographic characters; Ideographic characters; Recording. Chinese characters are typical ideographs developed on the basis of ideographs. The method of pictographic writing is to draw the real thing. However, painting tends to be more simplified and abstract, becoming a symbol that highlights the physical characteristics, representing a certain meaning and having a certain pronunciation.
Our Chinese characters, from pictures and symbols to creation and stereotypes, from China ancient seal script to small seal script, from seal script to official script, regular script and cursive script, have gradually taken shape. In the process of writing and application of Chinese characters, the unique and independent calligraphy art of all nationalities in the world has gradually emerged.
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