Someone asked me how to write beautiful and good handwriting.
First of all, we must recognize the fact that being able to write well does not mean that you really know calligraphy.
And people who know calligraphy don't necessarily think your handwriting looks good, so there is no necessary relationship between the two.
So the conclusion comes, I think, if you want to write beautiful handwriting, I think it is largely your talent, and your innate ability can not be obtained by coercion.
But as we all know, there are definitely a few people with this talent and ability. Most people still don't have the ability and talent. What should we do?
I think there is only one way, that is to learn calligraphy, write more and practice more.
Some people may question me and say, didn't you say that good handwriting has nothing to do with a person's beautiful handwriting?
I'm just saying that there is no decisive relationship between them, but on the whole, they are related.
In other words, people who can learn calligraphy well can also write good words and beautiful words to a great extent, unless you learn those strange fonts.
So now we can simplify this problem to how to learn calligraphy well and write well.
Generally speaking, practicing calligraphy is nothing more than two purposes, one is for social practicality, the other is for self-cultivation and improving aesthetic ability.
But no matter what these two purposes are, the final result is the same, which will eventually make your calligraphy have a big leap and make a big change.
Learning calligraphy is nothing more than two kinds of calligraphy: hard pen calligraphy and soft pen calligraphy.
From a practical point of view, it is suggested to learn only hard pen calligraphy, and then not soft pen calligraphy. If it is for self-cultivation, it is recommended to learn soft pen calligraphy.
But I think, if you have higher requirements for the practicality of hard pen calligraphy, or want to write better, then I suggest you learn soft pen calligraphy for one year and lay a good foundation.
Then with this foundation, learning hard pen calligraphy will be much easier and will make rapid progress.
On the contrary, if you only have the foundation of hard-pen calligraphy and have no learning experience of soft-pen calligraphy, then your knowledge of calligraphy will be shallow, your study will not be in-depth, and it will be impossible to write well.
One more thing about the choice of copybooks is the same. The choice of copybook is nothing more than choosing ancient copybook or modern copybook.
If it is for practical reasons, it is recommended to choose today's people to study and lay a good foundation. If it is for self-cultivation and higher-level pursuit, it is suggested that it is best to have some basis for learning ancient copybooks.