The correct way to hold the brush and the posture of holding the brush

First of all, let's talk about whether you need to hang your wrist when writing, you may have heard some related sayings, such as holding a pen must hang your wrist to have kung fu, in fact, not necessarily, whether it hangs up is related to the size of the words we write.

The ancients made a summary, saying that "within the inch, the law is in the palm of the finger, outside the inch, the law is also the elbow and wrist", which means that the size of the word is within one inch, basically in the fingers and palms, and the larger the font size, it is necessary to take into account the control of the wrist and elbow.

Regarding the wrist, there are three ways: pillow, lift, and suspension. Pillow wrist is the wrist of the writing hand pillowed on the back of the other hand; Wrist lift is the point of force to lift the whole wrist and still have support on the table; Hanging the wrist means that even the wrist and elbow are suspended, and it is not associated with the desktop.

When writing large characters, raise your wrist and your entire elbow so that the brush is steady and vertically downward. At this time, there is more room for the hand to move, and it is easy to write a one-meter-long line. If you are writing in small letters, you need to put your wrist on the paper or on the other hand, or lift it slightly, because then we need more fine control and put the effort on the tip of the pen, without much space movement.

The same is true for the height of the pen, the larger the word, the higher the pen; The smaller the word, the lower the pen.

When I first started laying the foundation, I thought that I should start from difficult to easy, start with standing hanging bowls, first improve stability, and then start writing small characters, practice wrist lifting, pillow wrist lifting, and gradually improve accuracy.

It's the same with the pen, and the ancients had different ways of holding the pen depending on the situation of writing. For example, in the past, when the ancients sat on the ground, sometimes the paper was not placed flat on the table, but obliquely, and the way of holding the pen with three fingers was more helpful to ensure that the tip of the pen was perpendicular to the paper, which was more suitable for this situation. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, there were tables and chairs, and with the development, by the Song Dynasty, they became more and more popular, and people began to sit with their feet down.

When the paper is laid flat, it is easier to keep the nib perpendicular to the paper, making it a more common way to hold the pen in this writing angle.

The most commonly used five-finger pen method, the main point is the five words "pull, press, hook, grid, and resist".

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

2.Hold your ring finger against the back of the pen, keep your little finger down, hold it gently, and relax your wrist. Fingers are real and empty: When the fingers are bent to hold the pen, a space will naturally form in the palm of the hand that can be moved, so the brush can move flexibly in the hand when writing.

Su Shi said, "There is no definite way to hold the pen, and it is necessary to make the void wide", "virtual" can be understood as the space in the palm, and "wide means that the wrist can be opened."

From the shoulder, the hour, the wrist to the fingers, a flexible axis is formed, and finally settles on the paper, which is expressed as the power of our pen.

It takes a long time to achieve this tacit understanding. The best state is probably that we don't feel that we have a pen in our hands, and when the hand and pen are used together, the pen becomes a continuation of our body when we express.

The correct posture for holding the brush is as follows:

The inside of the first section of the thumb is pressed against the side of the pen, and the thumb is slightly horizontal and horizontal. Press the barrel of the pen from the outside to the inside of the first or joint with the second segment of the index finger. The middle finger is next to the index finger and hooks the barrel of the pen.

The ring finger is next to the middle finger, and the base of the first nail is pressed against the force of the index finger and middle finger against the barrel of the pen.

The little finger is pressed against the inner and lower side of the ring finger to help with a little strength. In this way, the power of five fingers evenly surrounds the three sides of the pen, so that the pen is fixed and the palm of the hand is empty. This is the so-called "five-finger pen method", the five fingers of the right hand all come in handy, with the method of "pressing, pressing, hooking, topping, resisting" to hold the pen steadily, so that the fingers perform their duties.

1. Stretch out the palm of your right hand, put your four fingers together naturally, and turn your thumb upwards naturally.

2. Naturally bend the right hand innobi and little thumb, and the middle index finger, which is naturally slightly bent.

3. Hold the pen in your left hand and put it directly on your middle finger and ring finger, and hold the pen vertically with your right hand.

4. Press the pen tube with your thumb and feel the effect of the fingers we talked about above.

Occipital wrist, hanging wrist.

1.Pillow wrist Pillow wrist is a method of writing with the wrist holding the pen resting on the desktop or resting on the back of the left hand. There is also a kind of bamboo called "arm rest" to rest the hand, which is generally used in summer, because it is easy to sweat in summer, and the sweat on the hand is easy to wet the Sun potato paper.

The arm rest, as the name suggests, is used to rest the arm.

Writing brush words with the pillow wrist method, because the wrist is very stable on the table, it is suitable for writing small letters or one-inch square letters, but it is also difficult to move because the wrist rests on death. If you write a larger word, you have to use a hanging bowl to write.

2.Hanging the wrist Hanging the wrist, that is, hanging the wrist in the air. (Note that the elbow still does not leave the table).

Hanging wrist is a writing method in which the wrist holding the pen is suspended, away from the table, and the elbow (zhǒu, the protruding and movable part of the upper arm connected to the forearm) arm is still resting on the table. In this method, Zhishan's wrist range of motion is larger than that of the occipital wrist method, and the arm and elbow joints are still leaning on the table, which is still relatively stable, and can be written in large block letters of two or three inches.

If you write a couplet or a large character, you should write it with the elbow method.

1. Returning to the letter to hold the brush to use five fingers to hold the pen, five Shixiang fingers to use, but also have their own limb pulsation effect, together to hold the brush tightly, and then flexibly use the brush to write a good-looking brush words.

2. First of all, the meaning of pressing with the fingers, holding the brush on the left side of the brush with the belly of the thumb, followed by the charge, the first section of the index finger is pressed from top to bottom on the right side of the brush, and the brush is clamped with the thumb.

3. Then the hook, the middle finger is bent, hook the front of the brush with the first section of the knuckle, followed by the grid, use the belly of the ring finger to block the brush from back to front, and finally resist, the little finger assists the ring finger to push the brush.

The correct posture for holding the brush is as follows: press the inside of the first book of the thumb on the side of the barrel, and the thumb is in a slightly horizontal horizontal state.

The so-called brush holding pen, most of them think that the "five-character pen method" is the best way to hold the pen, and their interpretation is also different. The holding of the pen in calligraphy is mainly a matter of how the calligrapher uses the brush. Writing can be divided into narrow and broad methods.

The narrow sense of the pen method only refers to the operation of the five fingers or the action of the wrist together, mainly used to write medium and small characters, mainly to adjust the posture of the finger and wrist when holding the pen, involving few parts of the body.

In a broad sense, the method of holding the pen refers to the cooperative movements of the entire body system, such as the fingers, palm, wrist, forearm, elbow, upper arm, and shoulder joints. To learn to write calligraphy, you must first learn the correct way to hold the pen. How to hold the pen correctly is the premise of whether you can use the pen correctly, and it is an important part of whether you can write well.

If you can hold the pen well, you can use it freely when writing; If you don't hold the pen properly and develop incorrect habits, it will be difficult to correct and not conducive to writing well.

Takeaways:

Solid fingers: Fingers should be pressed on the barrel of the pen to make the pen hold steady. Weak palms:

Don't clench the palm, relax naturally, there is a certain space in the palm, and you can move the pen freely. The back of the hand is round: It is to describe the natural arc and vertical appearance of the back of the palm when holding the pen, do not deliberately.

Palm upright: The palm of the hand is erect to make the hand hold the pen straight. It is the fingers to hold the pen to have strength, to really hold the pen tube, the outer four fingers are close to each other, the bone joints are outward, dense but not loose.

The middle bone joint of the inner thumb should pay special attention to make it bulge outward, so that the mouth of the tiger is round like a stirrup, so that the five fingers work together, and the pen is both solid and powerful, and it is helpful to move the pen. The pen should be tightened appropriately. Too tight, not working; It's too loose to be strong.

Pointing to the truth, in order to achieve "no false hair, no ink overflow, force to gather the heart, and hold the pen steadily." "Palm uprightness, that is, the palm of the hand should be as upright as possible when holding the pen. The palm can be straight, straight can be straight, and the front is all four, such as.

Otherwise, it will lead to the crooked pen barrel, the pen tip is not correct, and the stroke is easy to become a biased diseased pen. The tube is straight, and when holding the pen and writing, try to keep the paper surface of the pen tube vertical, so that the strokes are easy to keep the center. However, in the specific process of pen movement, the pen barrel sometimes has to be tilted and tilted, and the important thing is that the oblique and can be positive, and the center of gravity is stable.