Calligraphy sitting posture and writing formula

Hello, the choice of standing posture or sitting posture is mainly related to the size of handwriting. Usually, when writing big seal script, official script or regular script, you choose standing posture, and when writing small characters such as middle script, small script, running script or small script, iron line seal script and grass, you choose sitting posture.

Share the main points and precautions of sitting and standing posture for your reference.

sitting position

1. Keep your body straight and relaxed, and don't have too much tilt angle of the thoracic and cervical vertebrae.

2. Keep your shoulders flush and don't shrug.

3. Lean forward slightly naturally. Don't lean back.

4. Hold the pen in one hand, pillow the wrist, lift the wrist or hang the wrist. Look at personal habits and word size. Relax your other hand and put it on the table or press it on paper.

5. The body is about one punch away from the console table.

6. Feet fall naturally. If the seat is high, you can put a pedal on the ground to help your body stay comfortable and relaxed.

7. When sitting and writing, the body should be straight, and the thoracic vertebrae and cervical vertebrae should not be tilted too much. When writing with your right hand, your left hand should relax or hold down the paper and keep it straight. At this time, the body should be relaxed, not tight, not stiff. Be careful not to have obstacles on both sides of your hand, so that you can write fluently.

standing position

1. Stand straight and relax, and naturally lean forward slightly. Don't bend your spine too much, and don't bend down to write.

2. Shoulder level, don't shrug, keep a proper distance from the edge of the table, don't touch or be too far away.

3. Hold the pen in one hand, with the elbow and wrist suspended, so that the pen is vertically downward. Uncontrolled hands naturally rest on the table or press on the paper.

4. Put your feet flat on the ground so that the center of gravity is evenly distributed.

5. When standing, you need to relax, put your feet flat on the ground, and the center of gravity is evenly distributed. When writing, the center of gravity moves between your feet. After a long time, you will find a balance. The more uniform the pressure, the more comfortable you feel.

6. Don't bend the spine excessively, and be careful not to bend down to write, which is very bad for the lumbar spine. So the height of the desk should be appropriate. Writing desks are usually about 10 cm higher than ordinary desks. When you start writing standing up, you can pad your desk a little higher.

Regarding the posture of writing, let's talk about whether it is necessary to hang your wrist when writing. Maybe you have heard some related sayings, such as hanging your wrist when writing, but it is not necessarily true. Whether you hang up or not depends on the size of the space we write.

The ancients summed it up as "within an inch, the method is in the palm, and one inch away, the method is in the elbow and wrist", which means that if the size of a word is within an inch, it is basically the kung fu of fingers and palms. If the font size is large, it is necessary to take into account the control of wrist and elbow.

About the wrist, there are three ways: pillow, lift and suspension. The pillow wrist is to put the wrist of the writing hand on the back of the other hand; Lifting the wrist is to lift the whole wrist, and the arm still has the support center of gravity on the table; Hanging the wrist is hanging the wrist strap elbow, which has nothing to do with the desktop.

When writing big characters, you should raise your wrist and the whole elbow to make the brush stable and vertical. At this time, the hand has more room to move, and it is easy to write a line one meter long. To write fine print, 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 pen tip, which doesn't need much room for activity. 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.

When I first started to lay the foundation, I felt that it was easy before it was difficult. Starting from hanging the bowl vertically, I first synthesized the stability, and then began to write the fine print, and practiced lifting the wrist and wrist pillow to gradually improve the accuracy.

The same is true of writing. The ancients had different writing styles according to different writing situations. 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 the pen with three fingers is more helpful to ensure that the pen tip is perpendicular to the paper, which is more suitable for this situation. There were tables 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 common writing method under this writing angle.

The main points of the most commonly used five-finger writing are "easy, pressure, hook, grid and touch".

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

2. Hold the ring finger against the back of the pen. The little finger is not concentrated, so you need to hold it gently and relax your wrist. Insufficient fingers: 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 that "there is no fixed method for writing, but it should be empty and wide". "Empty" can be understood as the space in the palm, and "wide" means that the wrist can be opened.

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

Freelance writing takes a long time to achieve this tacit understanding. The best state is probably that we don't feel 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.