Since ancient times, culture is a collection of people's lifestyles in a specific time and space, which contains a lot of human wisdom and emotion. Toby Lin (Hu Lin), the teacher of Xuan Tong Classroom, tried to present the traditional and true lifestyle of China people and let modern urbanites find their inner sense of belonging. Toby Lin (Hu Lin) shows a beautiful way of life, a beauty of "writing is a kind of life".
Teacher Toby Lin (Hu Lin) was invited to give a speech entitled "Leisure of China People-the Beauty of Useless" at Microsoft China, and the topic was "Leisure of China People". Toby Lin (Hu Lin) told everyone that hearing this topic seems a little far away from our lives, but it is not. It was the ancient literati class in China who put forward the concept of "leisure". Their main task is actually to be an official and manage the country and the world. Their task is very heavy. They have a stronger sense of mission, responsibility and heavier burden than anyone who works in the workplace today. So their leisure time is more enlightening and helpful to our present life.
This is an inscription that students of Xuan Tong Class founded by Toby Lin (Hu Lin) practiced in the process of calligraphy learning. From line-by-line exercises to cursive writing, Toby Lin (Hu Lin) exposed students to at least 30 kinds of inscriptions. In the concentrated copying, there is improvement in skills, but more importantly, along the history of calligraphy, the pleasure of traveling, playing and being enlightened with the ancients.
When Toby Lin (Hu Lin) gave a lecture of the same name "Mo Wen Cute" at the 20 17 Xuan Tong Classroom Assignment Exhibition, Toby Lin (Hu Lin) expressed in detail what is calligraphy? Toby Lin (Hu Lin) thinks that two things are obvious in calligraphy. First of all, it is a measure. Just like there is a tree in front of your house, almost as tall as when you were a child, and it will grow taller when you grow up, and then you will realize that it is a period of time. If you go to see the Preface to Lanting once every three months, you will see great changes in ten years, and calligraphy is a measure. The second is the foundation of foothold. We all think that our inherited traditions are precious, but what do we have to do with the ancients? If we just hold the thigh of the ancients and say, help me, help me. Why did the ancients help you? What the ancients needed was friends. If you don't have the attitude of "I see how charming Qingshan is, and I expect Qingshan to look at me like this", he actually doesn't like to take you to play. You should have a hobby with the ancients as a foothold to communicate with them. Then what literati love most is writing.
At that time, Toby Lin (Hu Lin) also explained to everyone, "Why do literati love calligraphy so much?" -Calligraphy is actually a mode of thinking about the composition and laws of the world. If you really wrote calligraphy, try it. When your brush falls on the paper and writes a black spot, the whole space of calligraphy changes, just like when you play Go, your first chess piece goes down, which has decided the whole to some extent. But it has been growing, and the black and white space is constantly changing and squeezing. This is the mystery of the second, second, third and third life.
This is the 10th anniversary of Xuan Tong's class. Looking back on this road, students in Xuan Tong walked out of their ignorance and followed the history of calligraphy, knowing and practicing each calligraphy style in turn. Feel the beauty of the ancients in the innocence and simplicity of seal script, and also find the expression of your own temperament in the laws and regulations of the Tang Dynasty, and experience the exquisiteness and beauty of seal script. When I finally wrote a cursive script, I deeply felt that the space between heaven and earth was so big that I could stretch freely. The most important thing is to meet the calligraphers behind the ink, read their stories and books through time and space.
Writing, reading and sitting in Xuan Tong are daily lessons.
As we know, the practical significance of Xuan Tong's class is that it is a traditional aesthetic education class, with calligraphy as the main course, and its soil is the culture and aesthetics of traditional China literati and their life wisdom based on thinking and practice. Xuan Tong's writing class is more than just writing. It started with calligraphy and spread to different fields and levels of life. It also includes painting, drinking tea, smelling incense, arranging flowers, reading and writing in China traditional culture. It is a complete cultural system.
In Xuan Tong's classroom philosophy, "writing is a kind of life", and tradition needs to help nourish the present. Just as Toby Lin (Hu Lin) said, "The life of a scholar is a leap of a piano, chess, calligraphy and poetry, and every bit of interest in life is the entrance to learning and Taoism. The mantle we inherited from the ancients is a busy thinking and behavior mode that combines knowledge and action, rather than an empty shell and form. " One characteristic of Xuan Tong's class is that there is a tacit understanding between teachers and students: to nourish life with "useless beauty", the pressure of passive learning and the purpose of standardization are transformed into silence and happiness in the unity of heart and hand, and "writing well" is not the only goal of continuous gathering here. Whether it's Xuan Tong class in Beijing, Xuan Tong course on the Internet or Xuan Tong in everyone's mind, it's through writing that they have related attitudes and feelings about life. Writing and reading are a door and window. When it is opened, it can open up one more dimension of life possibilities for itself, and the full happiness that will be harvested when it is fully specialized.
Although the teaching effect of Toby Lin (Hu Lin) is remarkable, and there are many peers, Toby Lin (Hu Lin) still thinks that what Xuan Tong's classroom has done in recent years is only a trivial matter, a drop in the ocean of the great era, or a small wave that has arisen at this time. Although subtle, she and her classmates created and enjoyed every solid moment at every moment of progress and happiness. Thanks to wisdom and interesting traditions, she has grown into a practical and fashionable today.
In the final analysis, Toby Lin (Hu Lin) is so loved by students, which is inseparable from the word "love". It is because of his love that he created the content with his heart, and it is also because of the excellent teaching content given to students by Toby Lin that countless people are singing * * * for this lifestyle and the excellent traditional culture of China. I believe that Toby Lin (Hu Lin) will continue to shine for the spread of China traditional culture with this love. I also hope that more and more people will like Toby Lin in the future.