Learners always start from temporary positions. Copyright is easy to buy from bookstores. You often choose a model that suits your hobbies, and of course you may follow the guidance of teachers or parents. Say the post first, and try to be similar to the text on the post. This is the initial stage of learning technical essentials, which usually takes only a few months. After this stage, you can write posts without copying them one by one. If you want to become famous and start a family, you often have to copy several copybooks one after another, and then you can write freely and stand on your own feet. In the process of honing your skills in this way, you will have great fun. This kind of happiness is not so much a comparison with others as a comparison between my skills today and yesterday. Tomorrow after tomorrow, every day is longer and more interesting.
When writing Chinese calligraphy, the waist and legs should cooperate with each other while using finger strength, wrist strength and arm strength. If you write standing up, all parts of your body will become active. At this time, breathing is deepened, blood flow is accelerated, and internal organs are naturally massaged, and you will feel great physical pleasure.
Not only that, writing brush strokes can also get aesthetic pleasure higher than physical pleasure. This is a kind of psychological pleasure produced by the free creation of calligraphy. I like to create at the beginning of my life. I can still recall the feeling of learning to write for the first time when I was a child: holding a brush that didn't listen to me, I finally wrote a word according to the words on the copybook. A fresh and magical heat flow swept through my mind, and I got the real interest and beauty of this world because of my first successful attempt.
Engaged in calligraphy art, in addition to practicing rubbings and visiting calligraphy exhibits, we should also learn all kinds of knowledge, improve our skills and create. Ancient masters of calligraphy and painting often asked artists to "learn from nature, learn from nature", that is, to travel around the mountains, observe natural scenery, increase social knowledge, improve their understanding and grasp of the beauty of nature and the world, and at the same time sharpen their conduct, let go of their ambitions and educate their hearts. The previous generation of calligraphers had such a famous saying: "Words draw for the heart" and "Books are people-oriented". The former sentence means that words are the external appearance of human psychology. The latter sentence means that calligraphy works are often judged by character. These famous sayings make people realize that a person must have beauty in his heart if he wants to write beautifully; The only way to make your words appreciated and praised as true beauty is to have a noble mind.
In this way, people can improve their knowledge and spiritual cultivation through reading, and it is possible to make themselves knowledgeable, civilized and noble, love life and forge ahead. This is the expectation of Sun, a calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty: "People and calligraphy are old"-people and calligraphy have reached a mature state.
The famous saying that "books are more expensive than people" is confirmed by different positive and negative examples here.
Yue Fei, a famous soldier in the Song Dynasty who fought against foreign invasion, died at the hands of the capitulators on charges of "unwarranted". His handwriting is very good. There is a cursive script "Hanging the Ancient Battlefield", and Wen Tianxiang's "Xie Changyuan's Xunci Volume" is a paper written by the ancients. The majestic lines between the lines remind people of his lofty aspirations and heroic achievements. Later, it was pointed out that it was not his original work, but now this post is still being reprinted and circulated. At the beginning, it may be that someone admired Yue Fei's upright character and wrote a word in his name in order to spread it to future generations. Of course, out of the same admiration, some people prefer to believe that those suspicious works are really his masterpieces.
The negative example is Zhang Ruitu in the late Ming Dynasty. His calligraphy is unique, vigorous and dynamic, especially the cursive script, which sets off the overwhelming majestic momentum with dripping ink and jumping lines, giving viewers great freshness and temptation. But his character was despised by people at that time and later generations, which covered up his artistic achievements. He is the adopted son of Wei Zhongxian, Yan Quan, and was a prime minister. Later calligraphers hated him and seldom mentioned and studied him.
Huangshan belittles its books because of people, and the value of calligraphy itself is devalued, which is really a pity from an artistic point of view. However, books are the art of gentlemen, and readers must think of the author's personality when reading. It is difficult for them to completely separate the two.
The beauty of skill is also the focus of calligraphy appreciation. People with more appreciation experience always want to ponder over a masterpiece, taste the beauty of calligraphy and taste the meaning outside Mo Yun.
The beauty of calligraphy skills has narrowed the distance between the appreciator and the creator, making the appreciator more willing to be a collaborator or bosom friend in interpreting and recreating this work, no matter whether the author is an ancient man who has been for more than a thousand years or a calligrapher who has never met him thousands of miles away.
In the eyes of careful, experienced and imaginative appreciators, a calligraphy work cannot have only one interpretation, that is, the interpretation made by the calligraphy author himself or an authority, and its aesthetic meaning and value should be an unfixed variable. Therefore, the appreciator is immersed in the beauty of this work, trying to explore more connotations and values in the work with his own aesthetic experience, cultural knowledge and life experience, and to explore the author's hidden intentions, emotions, thoughts, artistic principles and spirit of the times, which are difficult for the author to say or keep secret. One is to remain silent, and the other is to find out. This is a strong interest in appreciating the beauty of skill. From the perspective of the history of calligraphy development, because the appreciators with more appreciation experience can find valuable things from the calligraphy works that have always been considered mediocre or even poor, this adds a lot of new contents to the calligraphy tradition and is very beneficial to the innovative development of calligraphy.