The correct way to hold a brush

Hello, share some related contents about calligraphy practice for your reference, hoping to help you.

First of all, let's talk about whether it is necessary to hang your wrist when writing. Maybe you've heard some related sayings. For example, you don't have to hang your wrist when writing. In fact, hanging or not is related to the size of the words 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 a little, because at this time we need more precise control, put kung fu on the pen tip, and don't need much room for activities. 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 first and then difficult. Starting from hanging the bowl vertically, I first synthesized the stability, and then began to write fine print, practice lifting the wrist and wrist pillow, and gradually improved 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.