Articles with beautiful writing that are suitable for practicing calligraphy include:
Zhou Dunyi's "Shuo on Love of Lotus", 119 words;
Han Yu's "Miscellaneous Comments Four" (Ma Said).151 words;
Tao Yuanming's "The Biography of Mr. Wu Liu".171 words.
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What should I practice when practicing calligraphy?
First of all, you need to train your eyes, that is, read the posts carefully. Huang Tingjian, a calligrapher in the Song Dynasty, said: "The ancients did not always rely on copying to learn to write. They often hung the ancient calligraphy works on the walls, watched them with concentration, and then started writing when they saw it correctly." Ouyang Xun of the Tang Dynasty discovered Jin Dynasty's calligraphy works. I couldn't bear to leave the monument written by Dai Suojing, so I simply sat down and read the monument for three days. The more posts you read, the sharper your eyesight will be, and you will know how to write well and what is good about it. There is an idiom called "high eyes and low hands".
The second step is to train the brain or the heart. On the basis of careful observation, you should also firmly remember the well-written fan characters in your heart and engrav the shape of them deeply in your brain. Whenever you mention this character, you can immediately think of it. shape on copybook. Be sure to have a clear mind and a clear mind.
The third thing is to practice. The purpose of eye training and brain training is to figure out how to write characters. The mind can think of the best effect of writing, but the hand may not be able to write the best effect, because the brain may not be able to direct the hand, and the hand may not be able to direct the pen. Practicing hands is to achieve the state where mind and hand are consistent, and hand and writing are consistent, so practicing hands is also crucial. Hand training mainly involves practicing finger strength, wrist strength and hand feel. If you write for a long time, your fingers will hurt, your wrists will become sore, and your hands will not obey the instructions. This phenomenon will disappear if you exercise more. You should also pay attention to practicing the feel of the hand, so that the brain can direct the hand, and feel that the pen has become a part of the hand, an extension of the hand. The hand can easily direct the pen, as fast as you want, as slow as you want, as slow as you want, as light as you want. , think about it as seriously as possible, and write whatever effect you want to achieve.
The fourth thing is to practice structure, because the key to practicing calligraphy is to master the structure of characters. "Fangfangzhengzheng" summarizes the structural characteristics of Chinese characters. After mastering the structure of Chinese characters, he can write square and beautiful blackface characters. By slightly changing the strokes, he can write various fonts such as Song style, Wei style, regular script, imitation Song style, Pang style, Sima style, official script, etc. Chinese characters. If you cannot grasp the structure of Chinese characters, no matter how you modify or beautify the strokes of the characters, it will become an ugly superfluous thing, which will become more and more ugly. Therefore, mastering the structure of characters and writing bold characters well are the key and foundation for practicing all calligraphy well.
The fifth step is to practice your strokes. Many calligraphy practitioners have practiced calligraphy. They started practicing regular script and forgot many rules of writing, and only remembered the regular strokes. As a result, the characters written out are cumbersome and look like ghostly symbols.