1. Self-cultivation can help cultivate noble moral sentiments
The ancients said: "Learning books is just one skill, but establishing one's character is the first key. Those with high character will have a good character." Every stroke of painting has its own air of purity, elegance and uprightness. "When studying calligraphy, one must have morality in mind and learn from the sages and philosophers. Calligraphy is valuable." Throughout the ages, calligraphers of all ages have behaved with integrity and moral integrity. We attach great importance to perfection and improvement. The regular script of Yan Zhenqing, a master of calligraphy in the Tang Dynasty, is vigorous, upright and full of energy. His character is loyal, upright and steadfast. "The words are like the person he is", achieving the perfect combination of character and calligraphy. Therefore, his calligraphy is widely circulated and highly praised. respected. Although Qin Hui, Yan Song, and Cai Jing have high calligraphy standards, they are despised by the world because of their despicable personalities. It can be seen from the history of calligraphy that many people in ancient times were good at calligraphy, but only the sages passed it down. At the same time, most of the handed down works of these calligraphers are about establishing moral principles. This is what the ancients did, and people today should also follow this path. Don’t you see that great calligraphers such as Lin Sanzhi, Qi Qi, and Wu Weichun are highly respected and loved by people? It was all because they were talented in both virtue and art; while Hu Changqing, because of corruption, perversion of the law, corruption, and violation of criminal laws, ended up with the end result of "dismantling his name in the streets" and "withdrawing his membership from the National Association." When copying calligraphy inscriptions, we must not only "copy" in art, but also "copy" in other aspects of art. We must learn from their integrity and determination, and constantly cultivate our own noble moral sentiments and feelings of justice.
2. Understanding the truth helps to establish a correct outlook on life
Calligraphy is broad, profound and all-inclusive. When learning calligraphy, you should not only pay attention to techniques such as writing, writing, structure, layout, writing, and ink use, but you should also explore its deep aesthetic spirit and philosophy of life.
Chinese characters are composed of pointillism, and the "writing against the trend" of pointillism is the true starting point of the art of calligraphy. "Rebellion" means the opposite. This "anti" precisely reveals the contradictory laws in the art of calligraphy. "Fu calligraphy originates from nature. When nature is born, yin and yang are born. When yin and yang are born, the situation emerges." It vividly explains that the production of calligraphy is based on the objective world full of contradictions. From this, phenomena of unity of opposites arise, such as movement and retention, quickness and astringency, squareness and roundness, voidness and reality, curves and straightness, hardness and softness, dullness and uprightness, etc. The calligraphy motto put forward by the famous ancient calligrapher Mi Fu, "Nothing hangs down, nothing shrinks, nothing goes, nothing goes back" is his clever way of consciously integrating the concept of "nothing goes back" in the "Book of Changes" into the art of calligraphy. Enlightenment, we can learn from calligraphy the dialectical viewpoint that things are full of contradictory changes. It is easy to see from the history of Chinese calligraphy that Chinese characters have experienced a process of continuous change and development from oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions to modern Chinese characters. Calligraphy has also experienced a process of change and development from seal script, regular script, running script and cursive script. In the process of realizing the above-mentioned development and evolution, it reflects human beings' pursuit and understanding of the true meaning of life. Zhang Xu watched Mrs. Gongsun dancing with her sword and realized the rhythm of cursive script; Huang Tingjian watched the boatman rowing an oar and realized the principle of "the pen moves according to the momentum"; Chu Suiliang used a cone to draw sand and realized the beauty of the brushwork's hidden edge; Yan Zhenqing looked at the water droplets on the wall and realized the meaning of the house. The brushwork with traces of leakage; encountering pulling a cart in the mud on the axis of the road, and understanding the principle of using the brush vigorously. These famous masters transformed the inspiration obtained from nature into calligraphy creation, achieving the artistic realm of perfection, truth and beauty. In the process of studying, we should be more discerning in our daily life, understand that dialectical and objective truths are everywhere, constantly understand the laws of life and social development and change, and establish a correct outlook on life.
3. Improve aesthetic ability and cultivate aesthetic taste
The reason why calligraphy has become an art is precisely because Chinese characters themselves have elements of beauty. As the carrier of calligraphy, Chinese characters not only express the beauty of lines, but also contain the beauty of content and expression. It is not only the beauty of abstraction, but also the beauty of application and creation. When we study calligraphy, we must know how to perceive the rhythmic beauty of calligraphy with our hearts, appreciate the emotion and mind that calligraphers pour into the lines, and subtly cultivate spirituality, making it infect personality, purify the soul, and improve aesthetic appreciation and expression. .
4. It can temper the will
Learning calligraphy is an arduous, tedious, and long-term process. Without strong perseverance and diligent practice, it is impossible to make progress. There is no room for opportunism. Through long-term study and practice, people's will can be sharpened, which is conducive to establishing a perseverance and enterprising spirit.