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China's calligraphy practice is probably impressive to many people in China.
Take myself as an example. When I was a child, I spent most of my time with my brother and sister, except playing, sitting around the same table and writing brush characters.
How old were you when you started writing brush strokes? It's not very clear in retrospect. It seems that I started from being sensible. When I was three or four years old, I began to practice calligraphy while sitting still.
"Shang", "Da" and "Ren", some simple Chinese characters, are described with double hooks and red lines in Jiugongge's exercise books. My little hand can't hold my pen steady. My father moved to a high stool, sat behind me and held my hand.
I remember it very deeply. My father's big palm covered my little hand. The brush strokes are actually moved under the control of my father's powerful big hand. I looked at the black ink of the brush, drawing bit by bit, one by one, slowly infiltrating and filling the outline surrounded by red double hooks.
Father's hands are strong and steady.
I secretly feel the temperature of my father's palm and feel his even and steady breathing behind my head. It seems that my deepest memory of the first calligraphy class is not just writing, but physical contact with my father.
There has always been a boundary framed by a red line, and the vertical and horizontal red lines are equally divided into nine parts. ...