With the development of society, handy signature pens and ballpoint pens can be seen everywhere, but the fountain pens that were once all the rage have gradually disappeared.
In fact, a fountain pen is the mark of an era, and it is a connection point that connects culture and art. The progress of the era may not be universal, but it cannot disappear, because this is the common memory of an era.
The pen contains the emotions of a generation
The predecessor of the fountain pen is actually a "water storage pen", but the ink in the water storage pen cannot flow freely. Writers have to repeatedly press the piston to allow the ink to flow, which is inconvenient for writing.
Later, a method of supplying ink with capillary tubes was developed to solve the above-mentioned problems. The pen end of this pen is detachable, and ink can be injected with a small dropper, and a piston can be used to absorb ink.
In 1809, Britain issued the first batch of patent certificates for water storage pens, which marked the official birth of fountain pens.
In 1926, China established the first fountain pen factory in Shanghai-Shanghai Guoyi Gold Pen Factory. (Later renamed as Doctor Gold Pen Factory)
In 1928, the Shanghai Water Pen Factory produced the first domestically produced fountain pen. Pens such as Ph.D. and Guan Leming were famous brand fountain pens before the liberation of our country.
Advertisement of domestic ink pen
The fountain pen rose in China and became popular in China. It has gradually become a cultural symbol in China, carrying the emotions and memories of many people.
The Parker Pen Company's essay solicitation activity published in the "Shenzhen" in 1929
Fun facts about Premier Zhou and fountain pens
Not long after the founding of New China, the national power was not yet strong, and Western capitalist countries made things difficult for China.
The interesting story of Premier Zhou Enlai using a Parker pen to fight and fight against Western journalists happened at this time. Some people called this the beginning of the "Parker pen" prevailing in China.
Once, when Premier Zhou was talking with an American reporter, the reporter saw a Parker pen in the prime minister’s office and asked triumphantly: "Your Excellency is also obsessed with using our pens?"
Zhou Enlai said humorously: "This is a gift from a North Korean friend. This friend said to me:'This was used by the U.S. military at the signing ceremony of the surrender in Panmunjom. Leave it as a souvenir!', I think the origin of this pen is very meaningful, so I left this pen from your country."
After hearing this, the American reporter left in shame.
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When I talked about Premier Zhou’s interesting pen story, I could only laugh it off, but the pen was indeed an “exotic product”, and what influence did the pen have on modern times?
When the writing style of thousands of years encounters foreign pens, it can be said that it is a collision of Chinese and Western cultures. The reason for this combination is that both are line art.
But how to choose between the "old" of calligraphy and the "new" of pen?
Professional calligraphers can also write "excellent" pen calligraphy?
In the public’s perception, true calligraphers write with brush pens, but for the majority of calligraphers in modern China, pen writing is a symbol of the era and cultural bearing, and modern professional calligraphers are not resistant to pens. Sense, there are some calligraphy celebrities who never lose their handwriting with a pen!
White banana
The "Baijiao in the Clouds", who is famous in the world with the "Two Kings Calligraphy", not only has the demeanor of a "celebrity", but also has the attitude of a "hermit", but this is not even known as his "poetry, calligraphy and painting" all-rounder.
Calligraphy writing
Baijiao's calligraphy is handsome and free, and can be fully understood from the ruler's calligraphy. The style of the characters is handsome and the brushwork is proficient, which fully expresses the calligraphy like flowing clouds and flowing water.
The rhyme is not lost in the fluency, the wind is slack and the interest is high, and the pen writing is not limited by the nib and loses this fluent style.
Postcard written in white banana pen
Compared with his brush writing, Bai Jiao's pen writing has a similar structure, the strokes are soft, and there is a free and easy flowing beauty.
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Deng Sanmu
Deng Sanmu is a representative of modern poetry, calligraphy, painting, and art as a "celebrity."
In the 1930s, his calligraphy was honored as "Jiangnan Jijiu", and his seal carvings also shared the title of "Southern Deng Beiqi" with Qi Baishi.
Deng Sanmu's calligraphy copybook "Craftsmanship" works
"Three longs and two shorts"-three elders, seal cutting, poetry, and calligraphy; two shorts, painting and lyricism.
This is Mr. Deng Sanmu's evaluation of his own art.
Deng Sanmu's pen and running script
Although it is a fountain pen, it does not lose its charm of gold and stone. It has a strong ancient meaning, full connotation, and melodious momentum. It seems to be an example of the past for the present, but it is different in integration.
Deng Sanmu Fountain Pen
How do celebrities of calligraphy practice beautiful pen calligraphy?
Bai Jiao and Deng Sanmu have a profound influence on modern and contemporary hard pen calligraphy. They have elevated pen calligraphy from simple and practical to a higher artistic level.
Just as "Deng Sanmu Baijiao Pen Calligraphy Characters" said: Deng Sanmu and Baijiao both engaged in pen calligraphy creation is "opening the era of calligraphy, creating a unique art".
China's first fountain pen copybook "Fan Zi Fan" published in 1949 (now in the Heilongjiang Provincial Museum)
Basic pen technique
Light and heavy, top-down, the use of strength, and the strokes of the strokes, all have their own methods and forms to form a "vigorous" character.
Pen
Pen writing is the same as writing brush, and must be twisted and twisted.
Pens and brushes are very different in rigidity and softness. Therefore, it seems very difficult to make various types of books with pens at first. You have to choose all kinds of rubbings you love, and write with pens day and night. After one or two months, you can use the pen skillfully and naturally. .
From this we can see that pen writing requires not only the corresponding method of using the pen, but also the selection of the appropriate rubbings for temporary study. The essence.
Demonstration of Deng Sanmu's Simplified Writing
Regular script is one of the commonly used scripts of Chinese characters. Its strokes are neat, square in shape and well-proportioned in structure. It can be used as a model. The structure is correct and the center of gravity is stable.
Therefore, to practice pen characters, you can start with regular regular script. With regular script foundation, practicing other fonts will get twice the result with half the effort.
We Chinese still have to be able to write Chinese characters. Maybe we don't know how to use brush writing, but at least we shouldn't throw away pen characters.
The Chinese can't lose their roots in China. I still hope that everyone will inherit more of the traditional culture. After all, we are Chinese, and the five thousand years of Chinese culture cannot be lost in the hands of our generation.
——Li Ling, former deputy curator of Heilongjiang Provincial Museum
Pen, more than just writing
The fountain pen is not only about writing, but in the form of art, dots, lines and surfaces can be presented vividly with fountain pens.
Wang Kewei pen drawing sketch
Among the various forms of use of fountain pens, fountain pen drawings exist with their unique language and expressive forms. They are drawn stroke by stroke, meticulously drawn, and used lines to present exquisite pictures, as well as the beauty of rhythm and rhythm in it. Immortal artistic spirit.
Ma Guobin pen drawing
Iron steel pen drawing
Even though fountain pens are not widely used today,
Replaced by a signature pen,
But the beauty of traditional culture contained in the fountain pen,
It’s still worthy of everybody’s tasting,
May not be universally used,
But it can be passed on as a pleasure in leisure time,
Looking back at the charm of Chinese tradition.
Author: Strongink Pen Kits