What kind of brush is good for calligraphy?

First, it is not recommended for beginners to use pure wool brushes.

Maybe you have heard someone say before: you must use sheep hair when you learn calligraphy for the first time. Sheep's hair is soft and can be used to practice your brushwork. This view seems reasonable, but it is groundless. According to textual research, writing with wool became popular only after the Southern Song Dynasty. But it was widely used after the early Qing Dynasty. "Because the Qing Dynasty paid attention to roundness and delicacy and was not allowed to show off talents, only soft wool could meet the requirements and was widely used at that time."

Before that, everyone had been using bristles. It is said that Wang Xizhi probably wrote the Preface to the Lanting Pavilion with a moustache (although the hair of this moustache remains to be verified, at least it shows that he used a hard brush). In addition, "a soft brush may not be able to practice writing ability, and writing ability depends on active exertion, while too soft wool is easy to develop the bad habit of dragging pens, which is not conducive to the cultivation of active exertion habits."

Second, don't use a long brush.

If the long front brush is made of animal hair, the cost is extremely high. The best long wool brush is about 6 cm long. The output of this long-front wool brush is very low, and sometimes it takes months or even more than a year to save enough wool for this brush. The same is true of wolf hair and purple hair. The longer it is, the more expensive it is.

Third, try not to use nylon brushes.

Fourthly, it is suggested that beginners use double brushes or back brushes, and double brushes are the first choice. In addition, the post number mainly includes wolf number, font size and auspicious number.

Related instructions

The brushes of Longfeng are generally made of wool, and the length of the brushes is generally more than 6 to 7 cm. It is suitable for writing calligraphy and inscriptions, such as Da Cao, Da Zhuan, Zhang Qianbei and Shimen Song. The advantage is that you can write the change of ink color and show your temperament more vividly! The disadvantage is that the brush tip is soft, so you need to have a strong ability to control the brush, so that you can turn it yourself!

Center brushes are generally 4 to 6 cm, and this length of brushes is more common in doubled both brush! Both regular script and cursive script can be written, which is more common in various materials! As long as it doesn't split and it's not a bad nylon double-stranded brush, you can write and image with copybook 9!

Short head brush 3 to 4 cm, usually 3.5 cm. Most of these brushes are made of wolves' brushes and weasels' tails. Generally, one tail can't make a few brushes, so the price is more expensive! Then many uses are writing cursive scripts. Pure wolf hair has excellent elasticity, smooth writing and easy lifting. Many pure wolf brushes on the market are fake, so pay attention when buying!

The chicken is like a bamboo shoot from the tip of the pen, with deer hair as the center of the column, hemp paper wrapped around the root of the column and rabbit hair wrapped outside. Suitable for writing small print!

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