What is the calligraphy signature in 2023?
The "dry branch" method used to record the year of calligraphy works. "Dry" is "dry" and "branch" is "earthly branch". The so-called "dry branch" is the abbreviation of heavenly stems and earthly branches. Ten days' work is A, B, C, D, E, G, Xin, Ren and Gui. The twelve earthly branches are Zi, Ugliness, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai. Counting the year by the combination of ten days' stem and twelve earthly branches is a cycle of sixty years, commonly known as "sixty years in the flower".
Brush calligraphy generally adopts traditional format. Signature can have a deposit. Only the next paragraph is commonly used, and the format is: time (generally not Gregorian calendar)+(place)+author+(respect) book. Such as: "Gui Maochun worships the ancient style hall XX Chinese book". In traditional calligraphy, dates are marked by years, and months are marked by lunar calendar, not specific to a certain day. Hard-pen calligraphy can be written horizontally in a modern format: XXX books on X month X day in 2023. If it is vertical, it should also be in the traditional format.
Brief introduction of "double body" and "single body"
Double-paragraph: Double-paragraph refers to placing the added object of calligraphy and the writer above and below respectively, with the former as the upper paragraph and the latter as the lower paragraph. The name, source and the name of the donee of the work shall be stated in the preceding paragraph. The next paragraph describes the date, place and author's name of creation.
Single segment: Single segment can be divided into long segment, short segment and difference segment. A long paragraph is to write the time, name and place in the text, plus the author's feelings or reasons for creating this work. Generally used to supplement the rules.
A short paragraph is a font that only includes the source, time, name and place of the text. Generally speaking, no official script, no official script, no cursive script. If there is not enough paper and too little space, you can only write the author's name. This kind of signature is called "poor money".