What kind of brush should I use for regular script?
How to distinguish the quality of writing brush
There are many kinds of brushes. Generally speaking, writing pens can be divided into three categories: soft pens, hard pens and gel pens. Soft pens, such as wool and chicken feathers. Hard pens include purple hair (rabbit hair), wolf hair, mouse hair and so on. Neutral (neither soft nor hard) pens are called "double brush", and there are two kinds: sheep purple and sheep wolf.
Type of brush:
Hard pen: vigorous and powerful pen. Such as: wolf hair, mountain horse, cow ear hair, moustache, mountain rabbit, deer brush.
Soft brush: The brush is soft. Such as: Yang Hao pen.
Double brush: both rigid and flexible, both rigid and flexible. The brushwork is between rigid and soft. Such as: long flow, wishful thinking, suitable for beginners.
2. Selection of brush: A good brush should have the four virtues of "sharp, neat, round and healthy".
When tip ~ pen is polymerized, the nib should be able to close the nib.
Qi ~ pinch the nib with water, and the hair of the nib is neat and clean.
Round ~ around the belly of the pen, the pen holder is full and round, conical, not flat or thin.
Healthy ~ bristles are elastic and easy to fold after being scattered, so the pen strength should be healthy.
Before choosing a brush, we need to know more about the type and properties of the brush.
There are many kinds of writing brushes, and the nib is made of animal hair. Therefore, people often classify pens according to their different elasticity.
Generally divided into hard brush, soft brush and double-sided brush.
(1) bristle brush
The bristles of hard bristle pens are elastic, such as rabbit hair, wolf hair, deer hair, rat beard, stone badger hair, mountain horse hair and mane. 1. Rabbit brush Rabbit brush has a long history. The Warring States pen unearthed in Changsha was made of rabbit brush. It is made by splitting one end of the pen into several sections, inserting the nib, and then tying it tightly with silk thread. Rabbit hair is divided into purple hair and gray hair. Purple hair is made from the hair on the rabbit's back (also called arrow hair) and the hair on its tail. It is soft and healthy. Gray is better than purple. The wolf here is not a wolf in the zoo, but a weasel. The pen made of the hair on the weasel's body and tail is slightly softer than the rabbit's brush and harder than the wool pen, but it is brittle and not resistant to friction. 3. moustache pen moustache pen is made of mouse beard, so its performance is very strong. According to legend, Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty wrote Preface to Lanting with a moustache. Other hard pens, such as mountain horse brush, stone badger brush, bristle brush, etc. , are particularly hard, ordinary beginners have not mastered the law of writing, it is not appropriate to choose.
(2) Soft brush
Soft hair brushes are less elastic and softer. Generally made of wool, chicken feathers, fetal hair and other soft hairs. 1. Wool pen is made of goat hair, which is softer than purple brush. Because sheep's hair is thinner and longer, it is suitable for writing big letters and characters. 2. Chicken feather brush The chicken feather brush is made of the hair on the cock's chest, and its performance is softer than wool. 3. Fetal hair brush is the hair of newborn baby, and its performance is extremely soft. Xiao Ziyun in the Southern Dynasties (487-549) used fetal hair brushes, which shows that it has a long history.
(3) Double-sided brush
"Double brush", as the name implies, means to have both. That is to say, hard hair is the core, soft hair is the periphery, and the brushwork is between hard hair and soft hair. Generally, the production ratio of purple wool and sheep wool is different. The scores are "three purple and seven sheep", "seven purple and three sheep" and "five purple and five sheep". There are also brushes made of wool and wolf Mao Shuang, which are divided into "little white cloud", "Zhong Baiyun" and "Da Baiyun" according to their sizes. There are also bristles added to the big wool barrel pen to enhance its elasticity.