1. The order of practicing calligraphy. As for the way to learn calligraphy, the traditional view is that you should start with Tang Kai script, go against the times, and further practice Nanxing, Beibei, Han Li, and Qin Zhuan on the basis of writing regular script well. Another idea is that starting from the immature development of hand muscles in teenagers, one can start with Qin Zhuan, which has fewer changes, and proceed with the times, from running cursive to regular script. There is truth to both concepts. But I think the hard-pen calligraphy we learn is fundamentally different from the brush calligraphy mentioned above, so we cannot follow its practice methods, let alone be fooled by the traditional concept of learning brush calligraphy first and then learning hard-pen calligraphy. We now widely use hard pens. If you can't write calligraphy with calligraphy, you can still write hard pen calligraphy well. There is no need to make detours. Which font should I start with when practicing hard-pen calligraphy? I think: starting from the development characteristics of teenagers' hand muscles and the characteristics of uniform thickness and less changes in hard-pen calligraphy strokes, we should start practicing fonts that do not require changes in the speed and weight of the strokes. It is best to use boldface characters in print. The beauty of this font is mainly reflected in its structure. We can grasp the structure of the characters by analyzing the boldface characters. On this basis, we can choose our favorite font and practice hard according to our own personality and hobbies. 2. Practice the basic skills of calligraphy. The first is eye skills, that is, reading posts carefully. Huang Tingjian, a calligrapher in the Song Dynasty, said: "The ancients did not always rely on copying to learn to write. They often hung the ancient calligraphy works on the walls, watched them with concentration, and then started writing when they saw it correctly." Ouyang Xun of the Tang Dynasty discovered Jin Dynasty's calligraphy works. I couldn't bear to leave the monument written by Dai Suojing, so I simply sat down and read the monument for three days. The more posts you read, the sharper your eyesight will be, and you will know how to write well and what is good about it. There is an idiom called "high eyes but low hands". I think: high eyes are the prerequisite for high hands. If you can't discover beauty and don't know what beauty is, you can't even talk about creating beauty. Many students think that sloppy writing is the so-called running script. The reason why they regard ugliness as beauty is because they have "low eyesight and low hands". The second is brain power, that is, heart power. On the basis of careful observation, you should also firmly remember the well-written fan characters in your heart and engrav the shape of them deeply in your brain. Whenever you mention this character, you can immediately think of it. shape on copybook. Be sure to have a clear mind and a clear mind. The third is to practice hand skills. The purpose of eye training and brain training is to figure out how to write characters. The mind can think of the best effect of writing, but the hand may not be able to write the best effect, because the brain may not be able to direct the hand, and the hand may not be able to direct the pen. Practicing hands is to achieve the state where mind and hand are consistent, and hand and writing are consistent, so practicing hands is also crucial. Hand training mainly involves practicing finger strength, wrist strength and hand feel. If you write for a long time, your fingers will hurt, your wrists will become sore, and your hands will not obey the command. This phenomenon will disappear if you exercise more. Students who often help teachers copy questions on the blackboard and students who write blackboard newspapers often write quickly and well. Their finger and wrist strength are developed in this way. You should also pay attention to practicing the feel of the hand, so that the brain can direct the hand, and feel that the pen has become a part of the hand, an extension of the hand. The hand can easily direct the pen, as fast as you want, as slow as you want, as slow as you want, as light as you want. , think about it as seriously as possible, and write whatever effect you want to achieve. The fourth is to practice structural skills, because the key to practicing calligraphy is to master the structure of characters. The structure of a character refers to the length ratio of the strokes of the character and the interpenetrating and avoiding relationships between the strokes. Xie Xiaodong sang in the song "Chinese": "The characters I love to write the most are the square characters taught by my husband. I have to be like him when I am square and upright..." "Square and upright" summarizes the structural characteristics of Chinese characters. After mastering the structure of Chinese characters, he can write square and beautiful blackface characters. By slightly changing the strokes, he can write various fonts such as Song style, Wei style, regular script, imitation Song style, Pang style, Sima style, and official script. Chinese characters. If you cannot grasp the structure of Chinese characters, no matter how you modify or beautify the strokes of the characters, it will become an ugly superfluous thing, which will become more and more ugly. Therefore, mastering the structure of characters and writing bold characters well are the key and foundation for practicing all calligraphy well. The fifth is to practice strokes. Many colleagues have practiced calligraphy. They started practicing regular script and have forgotten many rules of how to use calligraphy. They only remember the simple strokes. As a result, the characters written out are cumbersome and look like ghostly symbols. I encourage everyone to start practicing with boldface characters, grasp the glyphs, and eliminate pauses. Below I will introduce to you several common stroke writing methods and the mistakes that most students tend to make when writing these strokes: ① Point, move the brush from the upper left to the lower right, there is a process of moving the brush. Note that "points" also have length and cannot be combined into dots. ②Horizontal, move the pen equally from left to right.
The key is to "horizontally be flat", not one end high and the other low, or the strokes should be wavy. Control the length according to the font shape of the square font, not too short or too long. ③Vertical, move the pen vertically from top to bottom. The key is that "the vertical line must be straight", not skewed to the left or right, let alone written as a vertical hook. Control the length according to the font shape of the square font, not too short or too long. ④ For strokes, move the pen from the upper right to the lower left. Do not write dot strokes or horizontal strokes. ⑤ When writing folded pens, the folded corners should be square rather than round. Don't make a big break at the corner, and write it as two obtuse angles off the shoulder, but write it as a right angle. The characters written in this way, if written with a ballpoint pen, will be small round artistic characters similar to match sticks; if written with a fountain pen, they will be standard bold characters. Although the strokes are monotonous, they are still beautiful and beautiful as long as the structure is accurate. Just like the squatting horse stance is the basic skill of practicing martial arts, the horizontal, vertical and horizontal movements are the basic skills of writing Chinese characters. The reason why many people cannot write well is that the horizontal and vertical lines are not straight and the structure is not accurate. If the structure is not right, no matter how rich the strokes are, you will not be able to write good calligraphy. 3. Steps to practice calligraphy. The general steps for practicing calligraphy are to practice boldface characters, master the structure of characters, and practice basic skills. You can then choose your favorite font for practice. The process of selecting fonts is called calligraphy selection. On the basis of calligraphy selection, there are five steps of reading, tracing, copying, memorizing and creating. The first step is to read the post. We all know the pronunciation of the Chinese characters on the post, so there is no need to read them again. What to read? Read the glyphs, structure, and strokes, analyze and figure out the characteristics of the strokes and the relationship between the strokes. For example: when we read the word "中" in boldface, we need to read that the vertical part of "中" passes through the middle of "口". The character "口" is slightly flat, and the horizontal length is twice the vertical length. The middle part The long vertical line is divided into two equal length segments by the lower horizontal line of the character "口", and its upper segment is divided into two equal length segments by the upper horizontal line of the Chinese character "口". This is reading glyphs and structures. Different fonts and strokes have different characteristics. The changes in hard-pen calligraphy strokes are not obvious and are not easy for middle school students to master, so I won’t go into details here. The second step is tracing. "Tracing" refers to tracing red, that is, beginners use a blue pen to trace along the handwriting on the printed red copybook. "Copy" refers to copying, that is, covering the model characters with transparent paper, and writing stroke by stroke along the shadow of the characters on the paper, which is also called copying. The third step is to post. It means putting the copybook aside and watching the copybook write word by word on the homework paper. This method is helpful for mastering the writing style and meaning of the calligraphy, but it is not easy to master the structure of the calligraphy. The fourth step is to memorize the post. It refers to the method of removing the copybook based on the original copybook, recalling the glyphs on the copybook based on your own memory, and writing it on the homework paper. This is a key step in practicing calligraphy. Only by carefully scrutinizing the words you write and having a solid plan in mind can you write with spirit and accuracy. When writing, if you can see the exact shape of the Chinese characters you want to write on the white paper, and "write the characters on the paper, and the characters in your chest", and write like tracing red, writing good calligraphy will not be a problem. The fifth step is creation. After mastering the writing method of the words on the copybook, I can understand the writing method of the words that are not on the copybook by analogy. According to the needs of one's own expression and expression, writing a piece of text that has a center, content and self-contained system is creation. If they can write handwriting that is close to the copybook in their daily study life, the purpose of middle school students practicing calligraphy will be achieved.