What is a Calligraphy Hand Scroll

Calligraphy hand scrolls are horizontal pieces of calligraphy.

Hand scrolls are a type of banner in Chinese painting framing. It is named for its ability to be held in the hand and unfolded sequentially for reading. Because the amplitude is characterized by long, so also called "long scroll".

Calligraphy hand scroll is a special form of calligraphy, because the shape of the hand scroll work is always horizontal, not vertical, and the height is generally within 30-60 cm, the length of at least 2 meters.

Calligraphy hand scroll is a painting and calligraphy banner in the longer, because it is not easy to hang, only easy to use the hand side of the unfolding, the side of the appreciation, the side of the roll, so called hand scroll; and because of the "hand scroll" is longer, so it is known as the "long scroll".

Hand scroll calligraphy, is the ancient people with a brush to write a long horizontal scroll, or "volume", from the Qin and Han dynasties, such as Jane, documents, and other forms of evolution and development, but also a form of ancient books. Because of the ancient book of the chapter is to a volume by volume to categorize, so the former have "read ten thousand books, travel ten thousand miles" and "read ten thousand scrolls, the pen as God" said.

Expanded

Calligraphy hand scroll features:

One, the length of at least 3 meters away from the height of 50 centimeters or less is appropriate.

Two, there is a complete content.

Three, the book style is uniform.?

Hand scroll is a form of calligraphy creation, framing. There are whole one piece of horizontal works, there are also small pieces of multiple works by framing. In ancient times, hand scrolls and long scrolls mixed name is not a big problem, now should be long scrolls, hand scrolls called separately. Hand scroll, generally about thirty or forty centimeters in height is appropriate, its length is as short as a few meters, up to ten meters long.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia- -Hand Scroll Calligraphy