Advantages of horizontal format books

Before 1949, the writing and printing of Chinese characters were basically "vertical arrangement" and "vertical writing".

When Chinese people at that time saw the Western Pinyin writing, they jokingly called it "Crab Walking Writing", which meant that the writing was walking sideways like a crab.

However, as society progresses, our country's Chinese character writing and typesetting and printing soon adopted "horizontal typesetting" and "horizontal writing".

Because it has many conveniences:

First, our eyes are long and horizontal, so we don’t have to raise our heads and lower our heads to read.

The second is to read articles and books by holding down the page with both hands and arms. There is no need to raise your arms when reading from left to right.

Third, the ink written horizontally, or ink or ballpoint pen oil, or even pencil writing, cannot evaporate immediately, "The ink is not dry yet". If you write vertically at this time, your handwriting will inevitably be rubbed off. Write sideways to avoid scratching your handwriting.

Four, by the way, calligraphy works are art. There is no need to always write vertically. Times are moving forward! Besides, many people started writing on the big four-character banner from left to right! This can be considered as keeping pace with the times.