书法与硬笔书法

On Chinese Calligraphy and Hard-pen Calligraphy

硬笔书法是同汉字与生俱来的最早出现的书体,硬笔书体乃是汉字书体的母体。西汉以来,毛笔广泛使用后,毛笔书法成为我国书坛的主角,才出现毛笔书法,并在蓬勃发展中建立了毛笔书法体系,迅速登上了书法艺术宝座,主宰此后书坛两千多年。近百年来,特别是改革开放三十多年来,以钢笔为主体的现代硬笔书法,与毛笔书法一起在全国形成了超乎人们想象的热潮,爱好者之多,普及面之广已远远超过了毛笔。硬笔书法建立自己的艺术体系已成必然。

Hard-pen calligraphy is a kind of chirography which emerges in commensuration with the appearance of Chinese characters,showing that hard-pen calligraphy is the matrix of Chinese characters.Since the Western Han Dynasty,the soft-pen calligraphy had begun to show its dominance in China＇s calligraphic scene after it was popularized far and wide.Henceforward,the soft-pen calligraphy had its penmanship system established in its gradual development and had maintained its ascendancy in the art of calligraphy in China for more than two thousand years.The recent 100 or so years,especially those 30 years after the Reform and Opening-up policy was initiated in China,has witnessed the popularity and prosperity of modern hard-pen calligraphy typified by pen-and-ink calligraphy,which,together with the soft-pen calligraphy,has infused an unimaginable large amount of vigor into the art of Chinese calligraphy.It is no exaggeration that hard-pen calligraphy in China outplays its soft-pen counterpart in terms of the popularity.Therefore,it is an inevitable trend for hard-pen calligraphy to found its self-contained artistic system.