Dong Qichang said, "Painting and Chinese characters have their own families. Chinese characters can be born, paintings can't be cooked, Chinese characters must be cooked, and paintings must be cooked. " He also compared his calligraphy with that of Zhao Meng. He thinks Zhao Meng's calligraphy is very skillful, but if he doesn't learn it well, it's easy to be kitsch. At the same time, he did not forget Versailles and praised his calligraphy because he felt "alive".
The "fate" here is "mature offspring". On the contrary, if your brushwork is too skillful, it is easy to lose its internal rhythm and its internal basis and causes in the habitual brushwork flow. Survival after maturity is actually to break maturity by living and break customs by living.
Mature after birth, mature after birth The first "fate" is clumsiness. Starting from clumsiness, you can gradually master the statutes, enter a skilled situation, and then pursue a mature life. This "life" is clumsy, not really clumsy. Many calligraphers like this syllogism model of "life-familiarity-life".
In the Ming Dynasty, Tang Linchu said: "Books should be cooked before they are cooked, and students should be cooked before they are born. The fledgling has not yet reached the academic level, and his heart is behind his hand; Mature people, do not find another way, do not follow the crowd, come out with new ideas. The bottom of the pen is also chemical. " Mature "life" is the real field of maximization, an old environment.