Modern Calligraphy Education in Calligraphy Education

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, "Western learning spread to the east" became a fashion, and the new generation took calligraphy as "honor", and calligraphy became a bad habit suitable for all ages. Not only that, the New Culture Movement "overthrew Kongjiadian" and "opposed feudalism", but also blacklisted Chinese characters, arguing that China's backwardness and humiliation were related to the complicated Chinese writing system and advocated it. It can be seen that the traditional culture and national culture of China at that time have been fundamentally denied. In this case, calligraphy education is naturally "influenced" and quietly combined in the series of "literacy education", losing its independent position.

However, the calligraphy art of China's calligraphy still enjoys a high status in the art, academic and political circles. For example, the calligraphy art of Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Yu Youren, Guo Moruo, Qi Baishi and Lu Xun has been greatly respected. The school has also carried out some calligraphy education without basic requirements and standards while "literacy education". After the arrival of the "microcomputer era", this situation has even declined. Calligraphy education has completely withdrawn from the conventional writing process and gradually drifted away, becoming a kind of residue in education and a kind of "luxury" in culture, and finally achieving the eternal pain in the hearts of all "watchers of traditional classic culture and art" with the "blank" of several generations.

There are many reasons for the decline of calligraphy education. First of all, the technical approach of computer keyboard input method is to replace handwriting. At the social level, the process of information dissemination and document generation is being mechanized and technical, handwriting is being transformed into input, and even school teaching is being courseware; Secondly, since the modern writing tools developed from soft pens to hard pens such as pens, ballpoint pens and signature pens, the writing tools of Chinese characters have undergone revolutionary changes, and the use of brush, a writing tool used by China people to write and practice calligraphy, has gradually withdrawn from school education; Third, the variety of school courses in contemporary China is increasing, and students need a hard pen with faster writing speed to complete their homework; Fourthly, with the popularization of computer keyboard input Chinese characters, the input technology is simplified and easier to operate, and information culture communicators from all walks of life (including journalists and teachers) are more accustomed to using computer typing instead of hard pen writing; Fourth, with the development of information technology, the computer generation needs faster and more efficient office tools; Fifth, with the improvement of school teachers, a large number of teachers who have not received calligraphy education in the course of school study have gradually taken up their jobs. They lack the awareness of writing and calligraphy, and they can't write Chinese characters well, which determines their inability to educate students on calligraphy. Sixth, cultural practitioners in the whole society generally have the cultural charm of forgetting words, and writing is not valued by society; Seventh, school education has entered the utilitarian road of exam-oriented education, and writing education has naturally been forgotten.

It's not that I don't love you, but that it's not easy to love you-from the "calligraphy self-study and self-practice" in normal school education 30 years ago to the "virtual column dilution" in higher normal education teaching series, the main reason is that everyone wants to learn, but few people can learn, and giving up halfway has almost become a nightmare for generations, especially for students in calligraphy colleges. However, the blank of primary and secondary school teachers' calligraphy ability can only make the simple calligraphy education in primary and secondary schools be replaced by "writing practice" from the 1970 s and gradually disappear into the whole curriculum sequence of national education.

This situation until the 1980s, influenced by Japanese calligraphy education, some art and normal universities began to resume "calligraphy education" professional education. According to the statistics of China Higher Education Society, more than 30 colleges and universities including Beijing Normal University, Central Academy of Fine Arts, China Academy of Fine Arts and Nanjing Institute of Art offer undergraduate, master's, doctoral and even postdoctoral education in calligraphy, and almost all normal colleges and universities in China offer elective or minor courses in calligraphy.

In 2008, the Ministry of Education issued the Notice of Offering China Calligraphy Curriculum in Primary and Secondary Schools, and in 20 12, the Ministry of Education issued the new curriculum standard, formally incorporating calligraphy education into the primary and secondary school curriculum, requiring that calligraphy curriculum be resumed in the compulsory education stage of primary schools over three years old.

This is the return of spring, but few primary and secondary school teachers know calligraphy, and even fewer are engaged in calligraphy education, which makes it difficult to see spring this spring.

The lack of teachers and teachers' poor calligraphy ability are rooted in the popularization of modern calligraphy education, the broken teaching system and the outdated teaching methods. . . .