When you start to learn calligraphy, you must learn to develop a correct writing posture, which is directly related to whether you can write well. Not only that, for growing teenagers, if they develop bad habits, they will not be able to change them for a while, and may even become hunchbacked. When you start to learn to write Chinese calligraphy, you should sit and write, and you should feel relaxed during the writing process. Learning books is like learning boxing. You have to practice standard posture from the beginning. Only in this way can we create greater opportunities to improve the level behind. If the writing posture is improper, it will not only affect the writing, but also affect the health. Moreover, the basic teaching of brush calligraphy is posture and pen holding method.
But "there is no fixed method for writing", which is completely "correct nonsense" Judging from the practice of calligraphers in past dynasties, there is no fixed method of writing. Different dynasties often have different writing methods, and even different calligraphers in the same era will use different writing methods. What two-finger method, three-finger method, five-finger method, double hook method, single hook method, tube twisting method, wrist returning method, and the "tube holding method" in which the pen was roughly held with the whole palm in the Han Dynasty can be described as very exciting and interesting. Moreover, some people with defects can write well after hard work, holding pens with their toes or with their mouths.
However, if you teach a beginner and you tell him that "there is no way to hold a pen, but how to hold it comfortably", it will be chaotic. How can I be comfortable? Here we go. Therefore, writing still needs an easy-to-understand principle. So in general, there is a certain way to write it, but there is no rule about what it must be. As long as you are used to it and can achieve something, it is ok. This involves the understanding of the sentence "there is no fixed method for writing". In fact, the key to this sentence is the word "fixed", not the word "method" behind it. In other words, there is no absolute fixed method for writing, such as not necessarily the most popular five-finger method today. However, some people think that this means that you can't write whenever you want, but do it whenever you want, and there is just "no fixed method". So there is a fixed method for writing, but there is no fixed method. It depends on who this sentence is addressed to. what do you think?