Benefits of practicing calligraphy:
1. Calligraphy is the "facade". Good calligraphy will benefit you for a lifetime.
Calligraphy has a wide range of practical applications. The most basic activity of learning calligraphy is writing, and the primary purpose of writing is to remember things and communicate feelings. The minimum requirement is to write the words in a standardized, neat and clear way, so that people are happy to read them. If the words are written in a messy way, even Just make up the characters randomly as you like, and the readers will be unable to identify them as if they were interpreting the "heavenly book", thus losing its practical value.
2. Calligraphy can cultivate one’s moral character.
Learning calligraphy can make people "quiet", cultivate people's excellent qualities such as concentration, carefulness, patience and perseverance, thereby improving people's overall quality, which cannot be replaced by other disciplines. As the saying goes: Tranquility leads to distance, and tranquility brings wisdom.
3. Calligraphy can cultivate sentiment.
The inherent laws of calligraphy determine the seriousness of practicing calligraphy. This requires that calligraphers must have a good psychological state, treat it with a high degree of enthusiasm for learning, and a sincere attitude; they must be diligent and tireless; they must strengthen their cultivation and broaden their artistic conception.
4. Calligraphy is good for health.
The art of calligraphy not only provides people with beautiful enjoyment, but is also an effective method of health care. Research by medical experts shows that among the twenty occupations that can make people live longer, calligraphy ranks first. Writing can cure diseases and keep fit.
The ancients said: "Writing is used to nourish the heart and heal diseases. It is the joy of a gentleman." Writing is an elegant artistic hobby that allows people to enjoy themselves in writing. When people write, they "don't think about sex, gain or loss, honor or disgrace, have no worries in their hearts, and no fatigue in their bodies." This relaxes the body and spirit, regulates and repairs the body, and can postpone or slow down the aging of the brain.
When practicing calligraphy, you must eliminate all worries and doubts, activate your whole body, use all your strength, and focus on the paper to express the energy in your chest and relieve the depression in your heart. In this way, it has a certain adjustment and training effect on people's psychological and physiological aspects. Over time, it can make people's soul rejuvenated and live a long life without illness.