Second, practice the basic skills of calligraphy. One is an eye worker, that is, reading the post carefully. Huang Tingjian, a calligrapher in the Song Dynasty, said: "The ancients learned to write, not all of them copied. They often hang ancient calligraphy works on the wall, watch them intently, and decide to start writing. " Ou Yangxun in the Tang Dynasty found the inscription written by Suo Jing in the Jin Dynasty, and was reluctant to leave, so he sat down and read it for three days. The more posts you read, the higher your horizon, and you will know how to write. There is an idiom called "eyes are superior but eyes are inferior". I think: eye height is the premise of hand height. If you can't find beauty, you don't know what beauty is, let alone create it. Many students think that scribbling is the so-called running script, and the reason why ugliness is beautiful is because "the eyes are superior and the eyes are inferior."
The second is mental work, that is, mental work. On the basis of careful observation, we should keep well-written model figures firmly in mind and engrave their glyphs deeply in our minds. Whenever the word is mentioned, we can immediately guess the shape of the word on the copybook. Do it with confidence and words in your heart.
The third is to practice hand skills. Practice your eyes and brain to find out how to write words. You can think of the best effect of words in your mind, but it may not be written in your hand, because your brain may not be able to command your hand, and your hand may not be able to command your pen. Hand training is to achieve the consistency of heart and hand and handwriting, so hand training is also very important. Hand training mainly refers to strength, wrist strength and hand feeling. If you write for a long time, you will feel sore fingers, sore wrists, hands that don't work, and exercise more. This phenomenon will disappear. Students who often help teachers copy questions on the blackboard and students who run blackboard newspapers often write quickly and well. This is how their finger strength and wrist strength are trained. Also pay attention to practice the sense of touch, let the brain command the hand, and feel that the pen has become a part of the hand and an extension of the hand. Hands can easily command the pen, think fast, think slow, think light, think heavy, and write whatever effect you want.
The fourth is to practice structural skills, because the key to practicing Chinese characters is to master the structure of Chinese characters. The structure of a word refers to the proportion of stroke length and the relationship between strokes. Xie Xiaodong sang in the song "China People": "The favorite character is the square character taught by Mr. Wang, and the square character should be like him …" The square character summarizes the structural characteristics of Chinese characters. I have mastered the structure of Chinese characters, and I have written square and beautiful bold characters. With a little change of strokes, I can write Chinese characters in various fonts, such as Song Ti, Wei Ti, Kai Ti, Imitation Song Ti, Pang Ti, Sima Ti and Li Shu. If you can't master the structure of Chinese characters, no matter how the strokes of Chinese characters are decorated and beautified, they are ugly. Therefore, mastering the structure of characters and writing bold characters is the key and foundation for practicing all fonts.
The fifth is to practice strokes. Many colleagues have practiced calligraphy. Since they began to practice regular script, they have forgotten many writing rules and only remember pens. As a result, the words written are very cumbersome, like ghost symbols. I advocate practicing in bold, mastering fonts and canceling pens. Let me introduce some common strokes and the common problems of most students in writing these strokes: ① At a certain point, there is a stroke movement from the upper left to the lower right. Note that "points" are also long and cannot be rounded into points. (2) Put the pen horizontally and divide it equally from left to right. The key is to be "horizontal and vertical", not high at one end and low at the other, nor wavy. The length should be controlled according to the font of the square characters, not too short or too long. (3) vertical pen, vertical pen from top to bottom. The key is "vertical to be straight", and it can't be skewed left and right, let alone written as a vertical hook. The length should be controlled according to the font of the square characters, not too short or too long. (4) Left, from the upper right to the lower left, no dots or horizontal left. ⑤ Folding: When writing a folding pen, the folding angle should be square, not round. Don't put the pen heavily on the corner and write it as two obtuse angles from the shoulder, but as a right angle. The words written in this way, if written with a ballpoint pen, are small round artistic words similar to matchsticks; If you write with a pen, it is in standard bold type. Although the strokes are monotonous, they are beautiful as long as the structure is accurate. Just like squatting is the basic skill of practicing martial arts, horizontal and vertical is the basic skill of writing Chinese characters. Many people can't write well because they are uneven, vertically arranged and inaccurate in structure. If the structure is wrong, no matter how rich the strokes are, you can't write good words.
Third, the steps of practicing calligraphy.
The general steps of practicing Chinese characters are to practice boldface, master the structure of Chinese characters, and practice basic skills. You can choose your favorite font to practice. The process of selecting fonts is called selecting posts. On the basis of selecting posts, it goes through five steps: reading posts, tracing posts, copying posts, memorizing posts and creating posts.