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Correct pen holding posture in calligraphy

First of all, let's talk about whether it is necessary to hang your wrist when writing. You may have heard some related sayings, such as hanging your wrist when writing, but it's not necessarily true. Whether it hangs depends on the size of the space we write.

The ancients concluded that "within an inch, the method lies in the palm of your finger, and outside an inch, the method is also an elbow", which means that the size of a word is within an inch, and it is basically the effort of fingers and palms. If the font size is larger, it is necessary to take into account the control of the wrist and elbow.

about the wrist, there are three ways: pillow, lifting and hanging. Pillow wrist is to put the wrist of the hand that writes on the back of the other hand; Wrist lifting is to lift the whole wrist, and the arm still has a supporting focus on the table; Hanging the wrist means hanging the wrist strap elbow, which is not related to the desktop.

when writing big characters, you should raise your wrist and the whole elbow, so that the writing brush can stand vertically downwards. At this time, there is more room for hand movement, and you can easily write a line one meter long. If you write small letters, you need to put your wrist on the paper or the other hand, or lift it slightly, because at this time we need more precise control and put kung fu on the tip of the pen, so we don't need much space to move. The same is true for the height of the pen. The bigger the word, the higher the pen; The smaller the word, the lower the pen.

At the beginning, I think we should start from the difficult to the easy. Starting from standing and hanging the bowl, we should first synthesize the stability, then start to write the fine print, and practice wrist lifting and wrist pillow to gradually improve the accuracy.

The same is true for writing. According to different writing situations, the ancients had different ways of writing. For example, in the past, the ancients sat on the floor, and sometimes the paper was not flat on the table, but inclined. The way of holding a pen with three fingers was more helpful to ensure that the nib was perpendicular to the paper, which was more suitable for this situation. There were desks and chairs in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. With the development, it became more and more popular in the Song Dynasty, and people began to sit with their feet down. When the paper is laid flat, it is easier to keep the pen tip perpendicular to the paper, so it has become a more common writing method in this writing angle.

The most commonly used five-finger writing method is the five words "Yi, Pa, Gou, Ge and Di".

1. Pick up the brush with your thumb, forefinger and middle finger;

2. Hold the ring finger against the back of the pen, and the little finger is not focused, so you need to hold it gently and relax your wrist. Finger-to-palm deficiency: When fingers bend to write, a space can naturally be formed in the palm, so the brush can move flexibly in the hand when writing.

Su Shi said, "There is no fixed method for writing, but it should be empty and wide". "Empty" can be understood as the space in the palm of your hand, and "wide" means that your wrist can be opened.

From the shoulder, the time, the wrist to the finger, a flexible axis is formed, and finally settled on the paper, which shows our pen power.

Writing freely, it takes a long time to achieve this tacit understanding. The best state is probably that we don't feel that we have a pen in our hands. When the hand and the pen are used together, the pen becomes a continuation of our body when we express it.