汉字是方块字,不过,在书法作品中有一些字的个别笔画被书写者处理得很长,大大地超过了方块的范围。这样的笔画本文姑且称之为“长尾笔”:它们常常是字的末尾一笔,即便不是末尾一笔,也好像是字的“躯体”拖着的长长的尾巴。从历史的情况看,长尾笔是书法艺术中的一个特别现象。长尾笔涉及竖、横、捺等笔画,本文重点讨论竖画长尾笔,一方面是为 Chinese characters are box characters, however, individual strokes of some characters in calligraphic works are handled by writers for a long time, greatly exceeding the square range. Such strokes are tentatively referred to as “long-tailed pens”: they are often the end of a word, if not the last, and appear to be the long tails of the “body” of the word. From a historical perspective, long-tailed pen is a special phenomenon in the art of calligraphy. Long tail pen involves vertical, horizontal, and other strokes, this article focuses on long-tailed long-tailed pen, on the one hand is