Calligraphy, like other arts, constantly innovates and creates new works with the spirit of the times on the basis of learning and drawing lessons from predecessors' experience. When Wang Xizhi, a "book saint", studied calligraphy, he not only studied hard, but also learned from others and constantly expanded his knowledge. It is said that he first learned calligraphy from Mrs. Wei, and later learned from many excellent calligraphy works since Qin and Han Dynasties, such as the works of Li Si, a great calligrapher in Qin Dynasty, Cai Yong, a great calligrapher in Han Dynasty, Zhong You, a great calligrapher in Three Kingdoms, and Zhang Zhi, who is known as the "sage of grass". Then he created an elegant and beautiful new book style. His calligraphy was highly praised by predecessors, such as "Tianmen in Yue Long, Tiger Lying in Phoenix". His masterpiece "Preface to Lanting" is known as "the best running script in the world", and the regular script "Le Yi Lun" is known as "the ancestor of the Millennium regular script".
Successful experience can often become an experience and benefit people. Compared with groping in the dark, it will save time and energy to learn from the previous experience directly. However, if you trust experience too much, you will imprison your thinking and forget the crisis. Acting only by experience without objective and in-depth analysis of reality will pay the price for the so-called "experience" sooner or later.
I have read the story of dragonflies and lizards in Animal World. A dragonfly resting on a stone found that a lizard was slowly approaching him not far away, but the dragonfly was as steady as Mount Tai and did not respond. The reason why you are so unhurried is that every time you meet a lizard, you can easily save the day. Because in the eyes of dragonflies, lizards can't fly, so it's hard to catch themselves. But this time, the dragonfly was not so lucky. I saw a black shadow soaring and pouncing. The unlucky dragonfly was caught by the "flying" lizard and became a delicious meal for the lizard. Dragonflies, as flying masters, are planted in the hands of flightless lizards, which are all caused by fixed thinking. It has become an experience to escape the lizard successfully, and this understanding has been formed in the dragonfly's mind: it doesn't matter if you meet a lizard, because it can't fly anyway.
Experience is a double-edged sword, which can not only produce wisdom, but also kill it. Make good use of experience and let it lead the way, and there will be less obstacles and more smoothness; Sticking to experience, locked by experience, the more backward, the less progress. Success is also experience, and failure is also experience. The secret lies in ourselves. Therefore, blindly believing in experience and copying it are likely to lift a rock and drop it on your own feet. Only by constantly exploring, thinking and practicing according to the actual situation can our experience be effective and help us to succeed.