Vertical calligraphy paper to write from which side

Vertical calligraphy paper is written from top to bottom, right to left, smoothly and naturally.

Vertical calligraphy is the traditional Chinese way of writing, which has been used throughout China's 3,000 years of history. It is also the way of writing from the earliest written records, such as the oracle bone inscriptions and the Jinding Script.

In ancient times, cheap materials for writing carriers were discovered very early: bamboo and wood. This is very favorable to the spread of culture, after all, easy to obtain, cheap value, and moreover, large quantities, inexhaustible.

From the underground excavation of the Qin and Han dynasties, the length of the documents, about a span of a little more than a point, about twenty-four or twenty-five centimeters, according to Professor Yu Zhonghua's research, the range of natural activities under the hands of people is this number.

From the top down a line to write, write a line in the case of a table on a line, from right to left, follow the hand and set into, can be infinitely extended to the left. In short, the ancient style according to the writing habits of the right hand, according to the shape of the material, from top to bottom, from right to left, by hand, naturally.

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Calligraphy Format

Banner: full and folio (half or half-folded) on long rice paper, straight writing works as a banner. Couplets: two folios, respectively, the upper and lower couplets, also known as couplets, couplets or couplets.

Center: the full or slightly smaller than the full of the material paper and hanged separately or together in the banner between the couplets. Doufang: the paper is cut into eight or so sizes (about 1 foot square) of the genre, called.

Plaque: also known as the horizontal cape, banner horizontal book framed or engraved in the board hanging on the wall. Screen: to the hall, banners and other size of similar material paper, written as a group of works, according to the length of the poem.

Fan: fan size, such as fan, a fan and folding fan, can also be framed or shaft into an album. Album: the small works of framed in order to turn the page, together into an album, unfolded into an album, so the name of the album, its content or coherent, or stand alone.

Hand scroll: also into a horizontal axis, inconvenient to hang, only suitable for stretching on the desk, after viewing the volume of the horizontal works.