In Japan, there are many calligraphy groups with an outstanding calligrapher as the core or a certain region as the boundary. Calligraphy classroom is the internal organization of each calligraphy group.
Calligraphy classroom usually has a class once a week. Children have entered the room since the lower grades of primary school (some are four or five years old in kindergarten). Due to the pressure of study, most students stop studying when they graduate from primary school.
When children go to the calligraphy classroom, they first learn to write. The pen is held in the middle of the pen holder, and the wrist is suspended (similar to the posture of writing big characters in China, emphasizing the use of thumb, index finger and middle finger to "stand" the pen.
The paper used in the calligraphy classroom is very particular. Their paper is nine inches long and seven inches wide, and it has a very interesting name-"half a piece of paper". When writing, the paper is on the left and the ink is on the right.
Calligraphy teachers teach students to write "one" first, and after writing "one" to "ten", some teachers teach the eight methods of "forever"; Some teach hiragana (hiragana * * * 46 characters, and then learn Chinese characters after writing hiragana).
In Japan, every calligraphy group has its own "book competition" magazine, which is divided into "general department" and "juvenile department", and "juvenile department" cooperates with calligraphy classroom. The writing content of primary school students is hiragana in grade one, and it is increased to three or four words (including Chinese characters) in grade two, and five or six words in grade five or six, that is, the higher the grade, the more words there are.