It was another composition class, but the composition teacher asked us to go to the calligraphy classroom. We felt very strange. The calligraphy teacher came. He was tall, fair-skinned, wearing a pair of glasses, and looked very knowledgeable.
The class started. The calligraphy teacher told us about the evolution of characters, including oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, small seal script, official script, and regular script. She gave an example of how to write the character "horse". It was very interesting. The earliest "horse" "Just like drawing, it deformed bit by bit and became the "horse" we see now.
Then, the teacher asked us to write our
names on the blackboard. The students were very active and rushed to the blackboard one by one. But after the name was written, we all felt embarrassed. The words were written in big, small, and staggered, which was not good-looking at all. The teacher then analyzed our names one by one and wrote them again. This time the students all wrote very seriously and felt that it was really not easy to write well.
Later it was time to practice calligraphy. When we wrote, the teacher came to us and gave us instructions one by one. The classroom was quiet, and everyone was thinking about making the best of their writing. Finally, we handed in all the handwriting we had written, and the teacher asked the students to comment on whose handwriting was the best. Unexpectedly, everyone said: "Chen Jiaxin, Chen Jiaxin!" The teacher nodded and gave me the highest score. I was quite embarrassed and thought that I must write better next time.
The teacher also told us a few short stories about calligraphy, saying that writing is very important to a person, and words are a person’s second face. Well-written handwriting can leave a good impression and win the respect of others. The teacher also said that since we are Chinese, we must write Chinese characters well. I think I'll keep these in mind.