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The art of calligraphy with Chinese characters was created and developed in the era of traditional characters during a long historical period by people who used traditional characters as communication tools. At that time, people used traditional Chinese characters to solve problems in study, work, and life. Writing traditional Chinese characters was not only an art, but also the most important and practical skill. Therefore, the proficiency and naturalness of traditional Chinese calligraphy at that time were incomparable to modern people. In addition, the calligraphy population was extremely large at that time, and almost every literate person was counted as a calligrapher. It was a real national system, and there were naturally countless good calligraphers. This resulted in the phenomenon that traditional Chinese calligraphy has a higher aesthetic value.
When we look at calligraphy works now, there is a huge gap between those before liberation and those after liberation. Anyone with a little common sense can realize this. The taste of the works of calligraphers who use traditional Chinese characters as a necessity in their life, work, and creation is different from those of calligraphers who do not need traditional characters in their lives and work and cannot use a writing brush. Among today's calligraphers, many do not have the basic skills in ancient Chinese and do not know traditional Chinese characters. They write calligraphy for the sake of calligraphy, or even just write certain words repeatedly. Their works will inevitably give people a "quick-finished" feeling and lack of taste. Understanding ancient Chinese and knowing and writing traditional Chinese characters should be the basic qualities of a calligrapher. Without such qualities, it will be difficult for you to become a calligrapher.
Of course, this does not mean that calligraphy works cannot be written in simplified characters. Calligraphy also changes with the development of characters. It is a rule that characters change from complex to simple. With the passage of time, it is an indisputable fact that there are more and more characters with fewer strokes in Chinese characters. This situation has not affected the development of calligraphy art. However, it should be pointed out that the previous development and changes of characters were a natural process, while the large-scale simplification of Chinese characters was a mandatory requirement of the state and was man-made and not a natural process. It is undeniable that the simplification of Chinese characters and the abandonment of the brush have caused a break in the art of calligraphy to some extent.
Of course, this does not mean that we are opposed to the simplification of Chinese characters and require the restoration of the use of brushes, but that from the perspective of calligraphy art, we should give some space to traditional Chinese characters. There is no need to eliminate them all. In fact, it cannot be done. Yes, there will definitely be strong opposition to this. Some people believe that traditional Chinese characters are difficult to read and write, are extremely inconvenient for the exchange of information, and are a negative factor hindering the development of social science and technology, economy, and culture, and should be abandoned together with the writing brush.
It is true that calligraphy brushes and traditional Chinese characters are not very practical, but this does not affect the existence and development of calligraphy as an art. The downplaying of practical functions has instead highlighted the independence of calligraphy as an art category.