How to pronounce long scroll

The pinyin of long roll is cháng juàn.

One of the mounting styles of Chinese paintings. A kind of banner is also called "hand scroll" or "horizontal scroll". The calligraphy and painting are framed into a long scroll and become a long scroll. The long scroll pictures are continuous and mostly viewed horizontally.

Common forms of Chinese calligraphy and painting

1. Zhongtang

Zhongtang is a straight form of Chinese painting mounting. It is named after it is hung on the middle wall of the hall. . The floors of old-style Chinese houses are very high, and people often hang a huge calligraphy and painting on the middle wall of the living room (main hall), which is called a central hall painting. It is a rectangular work written in vertical lines.

The content is mostly large four-foot-long auspicious characters such as blessing, longevity, dragon, and tiger, with "couplets" on the left and right. There are also ancestral mottos, mottos, famous quotes, calligraphy inscriptions, or ancestor portraits. , landscapes and tiger paintings. The size is generally a full piece of rice paper (divided into four feet, five feet, six feet, eight feet, etc.).

2. Banners

Banners are long works written in vertical lines. The size is generally one piece of rice paper cut into half. When arranging the composition, you should be able to carefully conceive according to the characteristics of the book style and have a new idea. When creating, pay attention to the primary and secondary relationship between the text and the signature. The signature should be well-proportioned, natural and vivid. The signature can be written below the last line of text, and there should be room for layout.

The bottom of the paragraph is generally not flush with the main text to avoid rigidity in form. You can also occupy another line or two lines after the main text. The top and bottom should not be flush with the main text. The seal should be smaller than the inscription, and the seal should generally be placed at least one character away from the inscription. It can also be stamped to the left of the inscription. Banners also include advertising banners, which are banners that are pulled high or posted on the wall, which can play the role of advertising and publicity.

3. Scroll

Scroll is one of the mounting forms of Chinese calligraphy and painting. It is the most common way to mount Chinese paintings, and it is named after the "axis rod" installed. Generally, one work is mounted on one scroll, but there are also multiple works mounted on one scroll.

Scrolls refer to books, calligraphy and paintings, etc. that are mounted on a scroll and can be rolled up. In later generations, books were bound into volumes, which specifically refers to calligraphy and painting with scrolls.

A spool is a metal (or plastic) spool containing unexposed film. The reel and film can be put into the camera for shooting. The reels used in cameras are cylindrical, while the reels used in film photography are round.