The basic brushwork of a brush is to start from scratch, then stroke and finally close the pen. Pen collection is the treatment of the pen tip when the stroke ends and leaves the paper. It is also important to collect pens, so you must not scribble.

Starting a pen is the beginning of a stroke, and the ways of starting a pen can be roughly divided into: exposure and hiding. There are two kinds of exposure, one is homeopathic method, and the other is cut-in method.

Homeopathic method: the pen tip starts to write along the stroke direction, which is relatively simple and is mostly used for writing running script and lower case letters.

Cut-in method: draw a vertical pen horizontally and draw a horizontal pen vertically.

There are two kinds of Tibetan front-Bao Feng method and reverse advance method.

Pre-wrapping method: the bristles fall vertically, and the nib falls on the paper and is hidden in the ink spot.

Reverse method: rely on the circumference of the pen tip to wrap the trace of the pen tip with ink lines.

There are many skills in rowing, which can be summarized as: middle stroke, side stroke, lifting, pressing, turning and folding.

Receiving a pen refers to the treatment of the stroke tip when it leaves the paper. There are two commonly used closing methods: the former method and the latter method.