Qian Peiyun's Hard Pen Calligraphy Techniques

Author: Qian Peiyun
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Publish Date: 1999-06-01
Features: As the ancients said, "Characters are like the heart's painting." Your temperament, elegance, and inner emotions will flow from the tip of your pen at every moment, which is also a silent form of self-display. Therefore, many people eagerly hope to master this pen and adorn themselves to become more mature and beautiful. In the late 1950s, I was still a romantic teenager. I fell deeply in love with calligraphy with a hard pen after admiring the fluent and elegant board writing of my Chinese teacher. From then on, with the patience and resilience of "cooking meat slowly with low heat and brewing tea with cold water," I embarked on a difficult climb towards this mountain, determined to "cook the meat until tender and gradually brew the tea until strong." On this journey of "cooking" and "brewing," I often had sudden insights and gradually realized some of the mysteries of this art. Among them, my footprints are left in this book. I love running script, believing it to be a carrier that can realize one's individuality. What I pursue is a style that embodies "elegance, strength, and fluency" as a whole. I regard beautiful structures as the artistic lifeblood of calligraphy with a hard pen. I think a young man with a graceful demeanor, eloquent speech, and refined manners will bring people joy and goodwill. In a certain sense, running script represents this image. I hope the running script in this book will leave you with this impression.