Sketch notes, after thousands of years of development, have evolved into today's characters, and because ancestors invented brush writing, calligraphy appeared. Throughout the ages, Chinese characters were mainly written with a brush. As for other writing forms, such as hard pen and finger writing, their writing rules are not completely different from those of brush, but they are basically the same. Based on tracing the source (after Oracle bone inscriptions), this paper focuses on the law of writing Chinese characters with a brush. As long as we have a "narrow" understanding of calligraphy, it will be of great benefit to understand "broad" calligraphy.
Calligraphy in a narrow sense refers to the methods and laws of writing Chinese characters with a brush. Including writing, calligraphy, stippling, structure, layout (distribution, lines, composition) and so on. For example, the pen refers to the palm and the five fingers are Qi Li; The pen carrying center is unfolded; Stippling is the same as a pen; The structure is shaped by words and echoes each other; The distribution is intricate, the density is appropriate, and the virtual and the real are born together, and the whole chapter is full of gas fields; Every word is ancient for literacy, and every word is big and small, and high is not as good as low.
"Book" refers to calligraphy. In the early days of Chinese civilization, there were Oracle Bone Inscriptions and inscriptions on bronzes. In the pre-Qin period, it was mainly carved on bamboo slips with a knife, with characters such as seal script and lower case. After the Han Dynasty, brush writing was the main writing style, including official script, regular script, running script, cursive script, Song style and other writing forms.