Then I will talk about practicing calligraphy, mainly to practice the memory ability of muscles and remember the position of each stroke of the word. If you want to remember something, you must remember it actively. For example, if you want to practice calligraphy, the best way is to copy. You should observe first, then imitate, and finally modify and appreciate. Improve again and again until you are close to beauty. If copybooks are used, the passive components will be high. How can you improve your passive memory and draw strokes directly according to the copybook? If there is, it is very small.
Finally, let's talk about the groove copybook that many people are pursuing now. It just develops passive memory to the extreme, but it is actually designed for lazy people. Without thinking about it, I drew directly according to the groove, and I no longer felt the weight of my pen, but just to satisfy my vanity and read the words in the groove alone.
I have been practicing calligraphy and bought a lot of copybooks. Grooved copybooks are the least practical. If I can't practice writing, I will often write outside the groove, and the copybook will become messy. Later, I signed up for a hard pen class. After listening to the teacher's explanation, I learned the structure and beauty of Chinese characters, and I like writing more and more. When I saw the beautiful words, I couldn't help admiring them.
The feel of the pen used to trace lines in the groove is different from that of the pen used to practice pasting on paper, so I can't understand the damping and priorities in the process of lifting the pen. The cardboard of the groove copybook is also hard, which is completely different from the feel of writing hard-pen calligraphy paper in peacetime. Without people's subjective initiative, doing these useless things passively will certainly only waste the time of practicing calligraphy.