The formula for memorizing the 16 characters in hard pen is as follows:

1. Sitting posture: the head must be upright and the shoulders should be flat; the arms should be open and the back should be straight; Don't be impatient and be focused.

2. Holding the pen: index thumb, pinch with fingertips; middle fingernail, on the inside; three centimeters away from the tip of the pen; four or five fingers, on the middle finger; arched, empty palm; inside of the wrist, against the table.

3. Horizontal strokes: write horizontal strokes with the right side upturned; light strokes, then back and forth; slow strokes, quick strokes; multiple strokes, with changes.

4. Draw vertically; if you want to write vertically, hold the pen up; focus on the chest; avoid breaking the force and keep the wrist steady; sharpen the needle and reveal the review.

5. Sketching: start the brushing and hold the pen for a while; move slowly and have a curvature; gradually lift the brush and reveal the edge of the brush; draw horizontally and vertically, not all the way.

6. Ninghua: When you start Ninghua, enter the pen lightly; avoid slanting and straightening, and gradually become more powerful; when closing the brush, use sharp edge; fold to the right, showing horse's hooves.

7. Stippling: left and right dots, left and right pauses; length, weight, echo; beautiful postures, many types.

8. Lifting the painting: Hold the pen and lift upward to the right; the force gradually becomes lighter and the stroke becomes sharper.

9. Folding: fold horizontally and vertically, with a slight pause; fold obliquely, with a light stroke.

10. Hook painting: where the hook is started, the pen is slightly paused; the front is sharp and powerful; horizontal and vertical hooks, oblique hooks, different directions, and the hook potential is oblique; vertical hooks, arc hooks, rows When writing, the garden turns.

Hard-pen calligraphy features:

Learning hard-pen calligraphy should not only pursue high-level artistic standards, but also pay attention to its practical value. To reflect its practical value, it is necessary to achieve correctness, standardization and symmetry in writing.

Chinese characters written with a hard pen are still Chinese character fonts created with a soft pen. This cannot be violated, otherwise it will not be recognized by others. Therefore, Chinese characters written with hard pen can still more or less express the traditional style of Chinese characters.

Soft pens and hard pens have their own characteristics. What are the characteristics of Chinese characters written with hard pens? When we use a "fuzzy" way of thinking and regard the strokes written by soft pens as "faces", we You can also think of the strokes written with a hard pen as "lines".

We regard the writing strokes of hard pens as "lines" because they basically cannot express the expressiveness of soft pen strokes in the contrast of line thickness changes (except for special-shaped hard pens). Hard-brush strokes are just lines, and the traditional "turning" technique has lost its meaning. In this way, Chinese characters written with a hard pen are just a combination of lines, which is a bit like the "steel wire seal script" created in the Qing Dynasty.