I am almost 30 years old this year and want to start practicing calligraphy. I don't know how to start. Thank you for your questions.

Let me go on to talk about the above point of view. It's not too late to learn books at the age of 65, 438+0 and 30. As Wen Zhiming said upstairs, Dong Qichang, another master of the Ming Dynasty, also studied hard later. Besides, so is Qi Baishi, a master of modern art. Age is not its decisive role, but the way to get started. 2. Zhao Ti is not suitable for the introduction. There is no denying that Zhao Mengfu is another epoch-making master of regular script after Yan and Liu, and no one has created a new style of regular script since then. In addition, it is beyond reproach that he is a master in other calligraphy styles (such as running script and cursive script) and literati painting. However, although his regular script is based on the "two kings", it is often easy to go astray and stay on the road of flashy and kitsch. It is not conducive to the transfer of many divisions in the future. I don't know much about Yu Youren's introduction to Zhao Shu, but he was finally called cursive script (Wei Ti cursive script). Of course, the standard cursive script advocated by him seems to be exactly the same as Zhao Ti's charm, but it is still controversial whether the standard cursive script is calligraphy, so many people suggest that it be included in the category of philology, not calligraphy. 3. As for the tools for practice, the use of Xuan paper is generally discouraged at the beginner stage. Wool paper and meta-book paper can be used instead (of course, newspapers are also a good choice, but many tabloids are not printed with newsprint and should not practice writing. )。 Pen, the ancients had the saying of "four virtues", that is, "sharp (the tip of the pen), neat (the pen is neat after the hand is flat), healthy (the pen tip is elastic) and round (the pen tip is round after the pen is lifted)". Of course, the pen you choose also has a certain relationship with the style you have learned. For example, Yang Hao wants to write official script, and the European style should be bold. However, as an introduction, I will choose a pair of brushes, such as Dabaiyun, Wuyangsanzi and so on. Ink is just ordinary calligraphy and painting ink, such as China ink stick, Yidege (this ink is thicker, add some water) and so on. Some people recommend Red Star Ink, but I have never supported anything from Japan and have never used it. Selling their ink in China must also be a trick to deceive dogs and traitors who worship foreign things and flatter foreign countries. Inkstone, because there is no need to grind ink now, so there is no need to use famous inkstones such as Duanyan and She Yan to get started. If you use ink, you can find anything. Even the palette of painting. 4. Time, it's hard to say how long it will take to practice. It only takes a few years to get started with calligraphy (because there are so few basic techniques). The key to writing a famous book lies in the extra-word effort. If you are good at extra-word kung fu, it will take 10 years Su Dongpo has a saying that "it's not enough to withdraw the pen like a mountain, only by reading thousands of books can you understand God". He even hit the nail on the head in Zi You Lun: "Although I am not good at books, Xiao Shu is no better than me. If you can understand it, you often say that you can't learn. "