Later, I found that my mother often wrote calligraphy, and I wanted to try it. At the age of seven, at my strong request, my mother sent me to a calligraphy class. At that time, the teacher said humorously to me, "Little friend, are you still inseparable from the bottle?" Because I am very young, I can't read, I can't take notes, I can't do a series of things independently, such as pouring ink, washing brushes and so on. So my mother has to study with me in every class. I was particularly interested in calligraphy at first and finished my homework on time every day. Just when I was just studying for a few months, the city held the seventh Spring Festival couplets calligraphy competition for urban students, "Group Art Cup". I am a newborn calf and I am not afraid of tigers. I signed up for this competition. I didn't expect to win a third prize! The prize is a small alarm clock, which is still on my desk. This award makes me love calligraphy even more.
After all, I was very young at that time, and I felt bored in the face of most unfamiliar words. Thanks to my mother competing with me every day, practicing calligraphy and writing together, when I really don't want to write, my mother will say to me, "Baby, leave some space for my mother to write a few words and see which of us can make the teacher popular." Whenever I hear this, I will try to write a few beautiful words carefully, and then leave one or two spaces for my mother so as not to lose to her.
Later, as I grew older, I also went to school and had more and more homework. In addition, calligraphy and painting often participate in some competitions, and these two competitions are often crowded together, so writing works has become a big burden for me. It takes a lot of time and energy to write a work. Because writing on rice paper is different from writing on safe paper, when writing, my mother will help me adjust the ink, then calculate how many words to write, how many squares to fold, design signatures and so on. When writing, keep the rice paper clean, for fear of spilling a little ink. As long as one word is misspelled or lost, it means that the work is useless, so my mother and I pay special attention when writing the work. While I was writing, my mother got a set of small bottle caps of different sizes for fear that I couldn't find the center. Every time I write a word, my mother will put a circle in the folded grid (it is a very good way to seal it one by one with small bottle caps), and then when my mother reads a word, I will write a word, lest I make a mistake. The more I write, the more nervous I get. I'm afraid that a small mistake will make my work in vain.
I remember that when I was preparing to write for the 10th National Calligraphy and Painting Competition for Primary and Secondary School Students, I wrote Su Dongpo's "Niannujiao Chibi", a whole hundred words. At that time, it took me more than three hours to finish the work. When I wrote "When I rolled up a thousand piles of snow", I wrote the word "pile" before the word "thousand". Oh, my God! I have to do it all over again. I want to cry. Our mother and son looked at each other helplessly. As soon as I picked up the pen, my hands kept shaking, so that I couldn't finish the work. We all cried that day. I don't believe the facts. How did this happen? I just looked at these two words and sat in a chair feebly. At this point, I thought of giving up, but I can't just fail. So, I regained my confidence and prepared to finish my homework, but I got cold feet as soon as I got to the table, so I repeated it several times without writing. When my mother saw this, she encouraged me to say, "Son, every time you write a word and take a step forward, you will be one step closer to signing, that is, one step closer to the completion of your work." Don't worry about numbers. Write one and lose another. Just write every word carefully. " After listening to my mother's words, I began to try. Unexpectedly, the effect was very good, 99, 98, 97 ... My confidence increased greatly, and I successfully completed the work in less than three hours.
A few days later, I finally finished this work and took part in the competition (this work won the first prize of calligraphy in the 10th National Calligraphy and Painting Competition for Primary and Secondary School Students organized by the Ministry of Education). When I got the first prize certificate, I said to my mother, "Mom, today I know the true meaning of plum blossom fragrance from the bitter cold!" "
So far, I have reached the highest level of calligraphy 10 and painting 5. Because the calligraphy and painting exams are both held at the same time, I have no time and energy to prepare for two competitions at the same time, so I took the painting exam for the first time last year, got Grade 5, and got a score of 10 in calligraphy at the same time.
Calligraphy and painting give me confidence and courage. No matter what kind of occasion, I won't get stage fright. I have confidence! I can do it!