Can you practice calligraphy well without copying ancient posts?

If you don't copy ancient rubbings, who did you learn from? If you are a so-called modern calligrapher, 99% people will take detours, because 99% people are not qualified to be calligraphers at all, and the rest 1% are calligraphers with certain achievements. They must have copied the ancient copybooks in a down-to-earth way to get here today. Since their teacher is an ancient, why don't you just learn from them?

Calligraphy is the accumulation of ancient people's experience. As the saying goes, it is just one of them. In the history of China, how many people copied and studied the calligrapher Wang Xizhi all their lives, but who surpassed Wang Xizhi? However, this famous calligrapher won a place in the history of calligraphy in China only because he has studied this calligrapher all his life. If he had done something unconventional from the beginning and wanted to create it himself, there would have been no such person.

So there is nothing wrong with learning calligraphy from the ancients seriously.