How to write the calligraphy for Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month

There are many types of calligraphy, and you can write according to your preference.

Brush calligraphy refers to characters written according to traditional rules, rather than words written randomly with a brush. Calligraphy is the art of line modeling. The so-called brush technique mainly refers to how to use the brush to create ideal lines.

As a writing tool, the writing brush has a very long history. Traces of writing brushes can be found on the painted pottery as early as the Neolithic Age. Although no actual writing brush has been seen before the Western Zhou Dynasty, some signs of the use of writing brushes can be found in prehistoric painted pottery patterns and oracle bone inscriptions from the Shang Dynasty. In the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, brushes were widely used to write on bamboo slips and silk.

It can be seen that the writing brush originated before the Yin and Shang Dynasties. The earliest writing brush can be traced back to about 2,000 years ago. A calligraphy brush from the Spring and Autumn Period was discovered in the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng in Leigudun, Suizhou City, Hubei Province. This brush is the earliest brush discovered and is a rare and precious material left over from the ancient times. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the names for the pen varied from place to place, including "Bi", "Yu", "Fu" and other names.

It was not until the Qin Dynasty implemented "the same text for books and the same track for cars" that the various names of the pen were unified as "pen". According to legend, Qin general Meng Tian once took sheep hair to make brushes in Shanlian Village, and he was regarded as the ancestor of brushes by the local people. It is also said that Mengtian's wife Bu Xianglian was also proficient in pen-making skills and was worshiped as the Empress of the Pen. By the Han Dynasty, pens had become more sophisticated, and Lu Xie was a master of pen-making at that time.

In addition to rabbit hair, the raw materials for making pen heads in the Han Dynasty also included wool, deer hair, raccoon hair, wolf hair, etc., both hard and soft. At the same time, the texture and decoration of the pen tube are also enriched. According to official history books, my country's famous Xuan pen was invented in the Han Dynasty.

Su Dongpo said: "There is no fixed method for holding the pen, it must be empty and wide." The five-finger holding method: that is, pinch the penholder (appropriate height) with the pads of the thumb and index finger to ensure that the penholder does not fall off; The lower part of the index finger rests on the outside of the pen, which not only strengthens the power of the index finger to pinch the pen, but also plays the role of hooking the pen in; the nail flesh of the ring finger presses against the inside of the pen holder, which plays the role of pushing the pen outward.

The little finger is attached to the lower part of the ring finger to assist the ring finger in pushing the pen outward. When holding the pen, you should do as the ancients said: "Make the palm as empty as holding an egg", which makes it easier to move the pen. When learning to write, you should often practice holding the pen, hooking it back, pushing out and rotating the pen barrel (plus the function of the wrist) to practice drawing straight lines and arcs. The height of the writing and whether it should be held over the wrist or elbow is determined by the size of the characters being written. Small characters should be held low, resting on the wrist; large characters should be held high, hanging over the wrist; larger characters need to be held over the elbow.