Why is calligraphy more difficult than Chinese painting?

It's difficult. Well, it's best to learn calligraphy first, because calligraphy can exercise your grasp of pen and ink. If you look at Chinese painting carefully, you will understand that having calligraphy skills and not having calligraphy skills are completely different. In a word, a leaf that has learned regular script can at least draw the stems and branches evenly, and people who know how to brush can do it in one go, drawing smartly but not stiffly. I've met people who haven't learned Chinese painting skills yet.

In fact, learning calligraphy depends on understanding. Some people are very talented. They hold the pen firmly, and the structure of the words they write is correct. But more people rely on extensive reading and hard work. Calligraphy is still writing in the final analysis, but the reason why it is said to be art is naturally unusual. Calligraphy is taboo, that is, holding rice paper and scribbling, without reading any inscriptions, not knowing the four laws and not knowing words, naturally you can't write. Calligraphy is best enlightened when you are young. 15, 16 years old is the golden age of writing. Because it is at this time that we truly appreciate the charm of calligraphy, and we will read and write with our heart, and become mature with the enrichment of experience and the improvement of our realm.

It is suggested to learn regular script first, not that you can't practice cursive script without getting started, but that words written without a solid regular script foundation will "float". At first glance, you will find this word unstable. Even if you have a good layout, it's hard to hide its loss. Only after practicing Yan Zhenqing's pagoda monument or Liu Gongquan's mysterious pagoda monument or unique European style can you enter the door, and then choose a monument to see your own style. After practicing regular script, I practiced Zhang Menglong's tablet, which is very restrained and masculine. It is also a kind of regular script, so I dare to write cursive script. Of course, the cursive style is also very different. China respects the two kings and Cao Zhang. From personal experience, learning seal script can really improve the level of Chinese characters. Seal script can strengthen the understanding of calligraphy and consolidate the font structure, and now it is another kind.

It is not a comparison to say that calligraphy is more difficult than Chinese painting. Is it good or not? Calligraphy is not simple, and Chinese painting is by no means that easy. How many kinds of Chinese paintings are there? Fine brushwork, flower-and-bird painting, landscape painting, emperor, modern. The combination of those colors alone is enough for people to see. How can you draw those grass bugs and animals with meticulous brushwork, their wings and hair, they can't write? Seemingly simple? I didn't mean to hurt you when I said Chinese painting. There are some paintings that you can't understand, and those that don't draw close-up landscapes at all. When you draw, you will know at a glance that lz means this.