What's the point of practicing calligraphy?

Meaning:

1. Calligraphy is an excellent traditional culture in China, and we should carry forward the national culture.

2. Practicing calligraphy can cultivate sentiment and temper people's will.

3. Good handwriting is not only a person's business card, but also an important symbol to measure a person's Chinese literacy. Therefore, good handwriting is closely related to practice. It is especially important to practice calligraphy from an early age.

Benefits:

1, cultivate temperament

Temperament is the external expression of people's inner quality. For a long time, people who practice calligraphy should learn from calligraphy theory, study poems and songs, cultivate the taste of judgment, and strive to make their words rich in connotation and bookish. With the improvement of calligraphy level, ideological understanding, knowledge level and aesthetic taste will also improve. People who practice calligraphy often give people the impression that they are knowledgeable, elegant in words and deeds and extraordinary in bearing.

2, longevity and longevity

When practicing calligraphy, you should hold your chest out, keep your back straight, keep your head straight and lean forward slightly, so that your chest and lungs can stretch freely. When calligraphers practice calligraphy, their wrists move the pen tube, stretching and bending back and forth, and the heartbeat moves naturally like a pendulum, so the movement of upper limbs can be coordinated with the heartbeat, especially like massage in traditional Chinese medicine.

3. Active thinking

As we all know, the more you use your brain, the more flexible it is. People who practice calligraphy show their papers and think seriously. They need to concentrate on thinking and thinking, and their brains are always excited. Medical experts have confirmed that people who practice calligraphy are diligent in thinking and often use their brains to study, which will make their brains get corresponding exercise, which can achieve the purpose of regulating body functions, resisting aging, effectively promoting the vitality of brain tissue and enhancing memory ability.

Extended data:

Practice posture:

Head should be straight, feet should be flat: head should be straight, head should not be crooked, body should be straight, feet should be flat, feet should be flat on the ground, and feet should not be tilted.

Eyes one foot away from the paper: eyes should be one foot away from the paper, not too close or too far away. Nowadays, many people are nearsighted and used to being close to paper, which is not a good habit.

One inch from the pen tip: the distance between the hand and the pen tip is one inch, which is the skill of holding the pen. Generally, the pen is about the first third of the whole pen.

Hit the chest from the edge of the table: the chest should not lean against the table or be too far away from the table. The punching distance is appropriate.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-practicing calligraphy