1. Which font should I start practicing?
The traditional way to learn calligraphy is to start from Tang Kai and practice going south, Beibei, Han Li and Qin Zhuan on the basis of writing regular script. Another idea is that we can start from Qin Zhuan, with little change, starting with cursive script and then regular script. These two ideas have their own reasons. But I think the hard pen calligraphy we learn is essentially different from the brush calligraphy mentioned above. Therefore, we can't follow its practice method, and we can't be confused by the traditional concept of learning brush first and then hard pen. Now we widely use hard pen, and we can write hard pen well even if we can't write well. There is no need to take detours.
What font should I practice in hard pen writing? In my opinion, starting from the characteristics of young people's hand muscle development and the characteristics of uniform strokes and little change in hard pen calligraphy, we should start with fonts that never require changes in writing speed and thickness. What's the matter with you? What do you want? What's the matter with you? What is the value of the hospital? ψ cure? What is the value of trillions of dollars? ∩ Xi？ I want to lower my head? About the bucket in the drought mother's yard? Hey? Why don't you waste your time?
2. What should I practice when practicing calligraphy?
First of all, we should practice our eyesight, that is, read the posts carefully. Huang Tingjian, a calligrapher in the Song Dynasty, said, "The ancients didn't learn to write by copying. They often hang ancient calligraphy works on the wall, look at them wholeheartedly, and then write after reading them. " Ou Yangxun in the Tang Dynasty found the inscription written by Suo Jing in the Jin Dynasty and was reluctant to throw it away. He just sat down and read the tablet for three days. The more posts he reads, the higher his eyesight will be. He knows how to write. Fortunately, I think: eye height is the premise of hand height. If you can't find beauty, you don't know what beauty is, let alone create it. Many students think that scribbling is the so-called running script, and the reason why ugliness is beautiful is because "the eyes are superior and the eyes are inferior."
Secondly, we should practice our brains or our hearts. On the basis of careful observation, keep the well-written model essays firmly in mind and engrave their glyphs deeply in your mind. Whenever the word is mentioned, we can immediately find out the shape of the word in the copybook, so that we have words in our hearts and minds.
Third, we should practice our hands. Training our eyes and brains is to find out how to write words. The best effect of words that we can think of in our hearts is not necessarily written in our hands, because our brains may not be able to command our hands, and our hands may not be able to command our pens. Hand training is to achieve a state of consistency between mind and hand, so hand training is also very important. Hand training is mainly about fingers, wrists and hands. It takes a long time to write. This phenomenon will disappear with more exercise. Students who often help teachers copy questions on the blackboard and students who run blackboard newspapers often write quickly and well. This is how their finger strength and wrist strength are trained. Also pay attention to practice the sense of touch, let the brain command the hand, and feel that the pen has become a part of the hand and an extension of the hand. Hands can easily command the pen, think fast, think slowly, think lightly, think heavily, and write whatever you want.
Fourth, we should practice structure, because the key to practicing Chinese characters is to master the structure of Chinese characters. The structure of Chinese characters refers to the proportion of strokes and the relationship between strokes. Xie Xiaodong sang in the song "People from China": "The favorite character to write is the square character taught by Mr. Wang, just like him ..." "Fang" summarizes the structural characteristics of Chinese characters. He mastered the structure of Chinese characters, and the structure he wrote was square and beautiful. You can write Chinese characters in various fonts, such as Song, Ti, Kai, Imitation Song, Pang, Sima and Lishu. If we can't master the structure of Chinese characters, no matter how the strokes of Chinese characters are decorated and beautified, they are ugly and will get uglier and uglier. Therefore, mastering the structure of Chinese characters and writing bold characters well is the key and foundation for practicing all fonts.
Fifth, we should practice strokes. Many students have practiced calligraphy. They started with regular script, but forgot many rules of writing strokes, only remembering strokes. As a result, the words written are very cumbersome, like ghost symbols. I suggest that you start practicing in bold, master the font and cancel the strokes. Here I will introduce several common strokes and the common mistakes most students encounter when writing these strokes:
At 1 o'clock, from the upper left to the lower right, there is a pen lifting process. Note that "points" are also long and cannot be made into points.
(2) Horizontal strokes, such as strokes from left to right. The key is "horizontal strokes should be flat", and one end should not be high and the other end should not be low, or the strokes should be wavy. The length should be controlled according to the font of the square characters, not too short or too long.
(3) vertical, vertical stroke from top to bottom. The key is "vertical to be straight", and it can't be skewed left and right, let alone written as a vertical hook. The length should be controlled according to the font of the square characters, not too short or too long.
(4) flip, move the pen from the upper right to the lower left, and don't write it as a dot or a horizontal stroke.
⑤ Folding: When writing a folding pen, the folding angle should be square rather than round. Don't put the pen heavily on the corner and write it as two obtuse angles from the shoulder, but as a right angle.
The words written in this way, if written with a ballpoint pen, are small round artistic words similar to matchsticks; If you write with a pen, it will be in standard bold type. Although the strokes are monotonous, they are beautiful as long as the structure is accurate. Just as squatting with a horse stance just like riding is the basic skill of practicing martial arts, horizontal and vertical is the basic skill of writing Chinese characters. Many people can't write well because of the uneven handwriting and inaccurate structure. If the structure is wrong, no matter how many strokes change, you can't write good words.
3. The general steps of writing.
On the basis of practicing bold font, mastering the structure of characters and practicing basic skills, you can choose your favorite font to practice. The process of choosing fonts is called post selection. On the basis of selecting posts, you have to go through five steps: reading posts, describing, copying, memorizing and creating.
The first step is to read the post. We all know the pronunciation of Chinese characters on the post, so we don't need to look at it any more. Read what? Read fonts, read structures, read strokes, and analyze the characteristics of strokes and the relationship between strokes. For example, when we read the word "zhong" in bold, we should read that the vertical of the word "zhong" passes through the middle of the word "kou", which is slightly flat and its horizontal length is twice as long as the vertical length. The middle vertical is divided into two sections with the same length by the lower horizontal of the word "buckle" and its upper horizontal.
The second step is tracking. "Tracing" refers to tracing red, that is, beginners use a blue pen to trace the printed red copybook along the handwriting. "Imitation" refers to tracing copybooks, that is, covering the template with transparent paper and writing one by one along the shadow of the words on the paper, which is also called writing imitation.
Step 3: Sticking refers to putting the copybook aside and looking at the copybook written on the homework paper word by word. This method helps to master the brushwork and meaning of Chinese characters, but it is difficult to master the structure of Chinese characters.
The fourth step is to recite the copybook. It refers to the method of removing the copybook on the basis of copybook, recalling the font on the copybook according to your own memory and writing it on the homework paper. This is a key step in practicing calligraphy. Only by carefully examining the words you read and write can you write accurately. When writing, if you can see the exact font of the Chinese characters to be written on the white paper, it will be fine.
Step 5: Creation. On the basis of mastering the writing methods of words in copybooks, we can learn the writing methods of words that are not in copybooks by analogy. According to the needs of self-expression and expression, writing a paragraph with center, content and self-contained is creation.
If you can write a word close to copybook in your daily study and life, the purpose of middle school students' handwriting practice will be achieved.
4. Precautions for practicing calligraphy
Let me talk about some problems that should be paid attention to when practicing calligraphy:
The first problem is the choice of writing tools. "If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first get his tools." Whether it is a pen or a ballpoint pen, he should choose a good pen with smooth writing and uniform line thickness. The ink is too light to be recognized. The ink is too dark, giving people a sense of oppression. In the exam, it often affects the mood of the marking teacher, resulting in unnecessary loss of points, so the ink color of the handwriting is blue and black.
The second question: Pay attention to writing posture and pen holding method when practicing calligraphy. Since most middle school students now use ballpoint pens, I will take ballpoint pens as an example to talk about writing posture and pen holding methods. When writing with a ballpoint pen, you should sit in a sitting position, so that your head is straight, your body is straight, your arms are open, and your feet are safe. Because the words written with ballpoint pen are relatively small, the activity of the pen tip should be in the area with the best visual effect. Generally, the right hand holds the pen, and the position of the pen should be slightly to the right. The chest is about 10cm away from the table. Stretch your arms naturally and lay your forearms flat on the table. Press the left and right sides of the pen with the thumb and forefinger, the left side of the first joint of the middle finger abuts against the lower part of the pen, and the ring finger and the little finger naturally bend into a semi-clenched fist shape to abut against the middle finger in turn, which plays a control role in the municipal administration. The distance between the thumb and the pen tip is about 4 cm. The pen leans against the tiger's mouth and forms an angle of 45-66 with the paper.
The third question: you should be calm when practicing calligraphy, and you should not be impetuous and perfunctory from beginning to end. When you write, you should be meticulous, and every stroke should be written in a down-to-earth manner. When practicing calligraphy, some people like to scribble before the end. This kind of scribbling is a taboo for practicing calligraphy, which not only damages the life of the pen tip, but also makes the progress that has just been made after practicing for a long time go up in smoke.
Fourth question: Don't change fonts easily. To practice calligraphy, you should have perseverance and perseverance, and practice basic skills well. Always practice your handwriting, instead of freezing for three days, fishing for three days and drying the net for two days. Note: practice calligraphy for one day, but not for ten days. On the basis of mastering the font structure, you can choose your favorite font, practice persistently, and don't change the font easily. because
Fifth question: We should combine learning with practice and writing with practice. Some students practice writing very well and do their homework very carelessly. They will never practice Chinese characters well. The words they practiced are usually used, and they should write as well as when they practiced. Only by combining learning with using can they practice Chinese characters well.
Sixth question: Teachers in all subjects should cooperate closely. First, teachers should write standardized words. Secondly, they should encourage students to practice calligraphy. For students whose homework is sloppy, we should criticize education and make it correct. It is not only the responsibility of Chinese teachers to urge students to practice calligraphy, but also the responsibility of every teacher.
5. There are three realms of calligraphy practice.
Everyone has read Jin Yong's novel "the legendary swordsman", in which there is an incisive exposition about practicing sword: When you are a beginner, you use your hand to make a sword, sometimes the sword won't listen to you, and you may even hurt yourself. After a period of practice, your hand and sword become one, and your heart makes your sword move with your heart, so fencing has reached a higher level. The highest state of fencing is the unity of heart and sword, without sword and without me.
The same is true of calligraphy practice. In the primary stage of calligraphy practice, we also use our hands to make pens. There is a process from never listening to hands to mastering, which can be further developed to the realm of pen and hand integration. At this time, when writing, we feel that the pen is a part of the hand, not writing with a pen, but writing with the hand. As long as we practice hard, we can reach this level.
The second realm of calligraphy practice is to write with your heart, and your heart and pen are one. What is written in the pen is what is in the heart. In this state, the level of calligraphy can be said to be a small achievement. All of us, including me, should work towards this goal.
The third realm of calligraphy practice is to learn from nature, without me and without a pen. Many famous calligraphers in ancient times did this. For example, Wang Xizhi saw the swimming posture of the white goose and realized the gesture of "floating goose hook"; Zhang Xu saw that the lantern-bearer was fighting for the road and Gong Sundaniang was dancing with a sword, from which he realized the relationship between the struggle and interpenetration of structural stippling and the quickness and rhythm of using a pen, which greatly enriched his writing style of Crazy Grass. Looking at the waves in Xia Yun, Huai Su realized the majestic cursive script and the trend of tumbling down the river; Yan Zhenqing understood the slowness and strength of using a pen, which is the ideal state for us to practice calligraphy. No matter whether there is a pen or not, a soft pen or a hard pen, or even a broken broom, you can write wonderful calligraphy works.
Let's write with our heart, not just by hand, and work hard towards this ideal realm!
Let's talk about the fourth question first: how do I practice writing?
At the beginning, I visited Yan's monument with a brush. Later, I found a 99-day calligraphy book containing 99 representative Chinese characters. Practitioners are required to practice one, remember one and learn one every day. After 99 days of practice, 99 Chinese characters will be written and others will be written. I found these Chinese characters from Yan's tablet, and
Later, a classmate said that the face I wrote was full of "Yan" flavor, but it was soft and weak, because I couldn't do "middle pen" when holding a pen, and I often dragged my pen. This classmate is a person with low vision, but he found my mistake, but he couldn't help me correct it. I asked for advice in many ways, carefully observed how others wrote it, and finally found this trick: it was originally written by others.
Later, another classmate of mine told me: "Your strokes are very standard, but they are not beautiful when combined, mainly because of the wrong structure." If you want to master the structure of words, you might as well learn to use bold characters and strokes like matchsticks. Only when the structure is right will it look good. " So I dipped my brush in water and practiced on the floor according to the bold headlines of newspaper news. I soon mastered the bold writing method. I have written big slogans for some classes. I found that after learning boldface, many untrained fonts can be written with a little practice of basic strokes. This is also the reason why I suggest students practice boldface today. 1993, I won the third prize in the painting and calligraphy contest organized by Shijiazhuang Municipal Education Commission. Now I often help my colleagues to send posters and write big characters, which not only consolidates the effect of practicing calligraphy but also improves the writing style.
Above, we talked about the methods and precautions of practicing calligraphy. If you do as I say, I think you will make progress, because I have achieved good results in guiding students to practice Chinese characters. Finally, let me talk about this problem.
As a Chinese teacher, we should not only write well by ourselves, but also guide students to write well. In order to make students write well, I once asked students to write "one word a day". After practice, 98-year-old Li Chao has reached a high level in learning Pang Zhonghua's pen and ink style, and Niu Kunpeng's pen and ink style is rigorous and self-contained. I have also given many calligraphy lectures to students. And organized students to participate in calligraphy competitions many times. Hu Zhanxiong, Li Mo and other students of Class 200 1 won the prize in the "Star of the Century" Calligraphy Competition. Now, I have carried out the activity of evaluating "star-rated writing experts" among students, and the students are very enthusiastic about practicing calligraphy. Sun Ruijing, a three-star writing expert, not only writes neatly and clearly, but also achieves a writing speed of more than 50 words per minute.
Finally, I want to tell you that it is not difficult to write beautiful Chinese characters. As long as you practice Chinese characters with your heart, you will always succeed. When you see dignified and beautiful Chinese characters flowing out of your pen, when you see pages of neat and clear homework being born in your pen, when you see the red tick mark and "excellent" in the exercise book, don't you think writing Chinese characters well is also an artistic enjoyment? Let's walk into the art world of China's calligraphy and splash ink with our heart!
Practice pen writing well
It is generally easier for primary school students and young people whose fonts are not finalized than adults. This is because they are easy to accept new fonts. Once they have the right guidance, the right fonts and methods, and a persistent attitude, they can achieve good results in a short time. For adults whose fonts have been finalized, it is not so easy to practice pen and ink. Because they haven't paid attention to it before.