Recently, I was chatting with a friend about learning calligraphy, and I suddenly thought of my copper ink cartridge.
A copper ink cartridge is placed in front of the case. It is shining with golden light, square and smooth, especially the four words "Excellence in Industry and Diligence" engraved on the right side make me feel happy. The copper ink cartridge does not show nobility, but it shows elegance; it is pleasing to the eye, practical, and even more interesting to appreciate. This is my copper ink cartridge, right?
In fact, I don’t have a copper ink cartridge at all, and I have never seen a copper ink cartridge. The copper ink cartridge is just a complex in my heart.
More than twenty years ago, I suddenly developed the desire to learn calligraphy. I felt that writing beautiful calligraphy was an elegant and free and proud thing. When I was in middle school, I practiced calligraphy with a borrowed copybook from Liu Gongquan's "Mysterious Tower". Nowadays, I only remember that the strokes are thin and hard, and the structure is beautiful. Now that we have a decent salary, we don’t need to borrow copybooks to practice calligraphy. We can buy whatever we like. I went to the bookstore and first picked up a copy of "The Mysterious Tower"; then I read Ouyang Xun's "Jiucheng Palace". The font was square and the strokes were smooth. I liked it even more and bought a copy too. To practice calligraphy, I need a pen, and I need a better pen. The one that costs ten or eight yuan is too shabby. I bought two wolf hairs that cost more than twenty yuan, which is still worthy of my mood. When modern people write calligraphy, they rarely use inkstones. They use ink cartridges, which are convenient to use without losing the charm of calligraphy. The ink cartridge also needs to be of a higher quality, so just buy a copper one. I visited several stationery stores and found that the ink cartridges were all made of plastic. The shop owner said that copper ink cartridges are not available in the city. Really, in the following days, I never bought the copper ink cartridges, but I bought a lot of copybooks. I bought four versions of "Jiucheng Palace" alone, but I didn't practice any of my calligraphy. < /p>
So, I thought about practicing Tai Chi again.
Six years ago, when I retired from my job and had some free time, I went to an old friend to learn Tai Chi. After learning a set of twenty-four movements, I became more interested. So I bought CDs such as "Forty-Eight Postures of Tai Chi" and "Twenty-Four Postures of Tai Chi Sword" and practiced while learning. I also learned a set of Shaolin Eyebrow Qi sticks. However, the tools used are all crude, and I always want to get something decent, but it is difficult to buy them locally. A few years ago, I came to Guangdong and heard that they were sold in Guangzhou, so I made a special trip to Guangzhou and bought a sword with a carved scabbard and a pewter pole for practicing sticks for more than 200 yuan. With these decent guys, I feel refreshed and more interested in practicing sword and stick practice. The weather is coming and going, and I am busy with trivial matters. I am no longer in the mood to practice these things. The delicate sword was hidden behind the sofa, covered in dust; the straight white wax pole lay under the bed, also bent.
Thinking about it, my copper ink cartridge is much luckier than those brushes, copybooks, swords, and white wax rods. At least it has not experienced such neglect. In a person's life, there will always be good wishes of one kind or another, but if you don't do it, or don't insist on doing it, it will only be a fruitless and beautiful flower.
The copper ink cartridge gave me deep introspection.