What kind of copybooks do you buy for adults?

For most adults, if they want to practice hard pen calligraphy, they should look for pen copybooks directly. It is not recommended to start with brush copybooks or wordboards.

First of all, I suggest you try not to choose Pang Zhonghua's copybook. Although Pang Zhonghua's calligraphy is better than the average person, there are many obvious defects in his calligraphy from the structure to the brush strokes to the overall state, which is really bad as a reference for practice.

Sima Yan's calligraphy posts entered primary and secondary schools. It is best not to choose them. His handwriting is much better in Pang Zhonghua, which is more correct at first glance, so it is very popular with primary and secondary school teachers. However, strictly speaking, his font structure is very imprecise.

Or some people think that their running script looks smooth, but that's because the consistency of running script dilutes the shortcomings in writing, and privately think that to see a person's real basic skills, it must be block letters.

I recommend Zhang Xiu's handwriting. Her calligraphy is dignified and rigorous, elegant and natural, revealing pride and personality. Her running script may be plain at first glance, but it will make people more and more obsessed with its heroic spirit. The longer you read it, the more you will lament its reasonable structure and feel the writer's spirit.

(This may sound a little metaphysical, but I always believe it exists). Tian Yingzhang, Lu Zhongnan and Zou Mubai are all good and can be practiced.

I don't know why the copybooks of people with bad fonts are common in bookstores now, but the copybooks of masters are less, and they all say that the words are as they are. I have always believed that fonts have something to do with people's minds. I don't know if Pang and others' initial motivation for practicing calligraphy is to make money by selling copybooks, so they are eager for success and practice calligraphy incorrectly, but they are mainly based on marketing skills.

Or when the master practiced calligraphy, he inherited the lofty pride of the ancient literati and read the truth that the willing took the bait, or he was extremely confident in his own strength and always sought a breakthrough with humility and diligence, so he disdained to make gimmicks by secular means and ignored secular small interests.