Why did Mr Ouyang Zhongshi say that calligraphy is learned rather than practiced?

Because if you want to improve your calligraphy, you don't have to bury your head in writing. If you want to learn calligraphy well, you still need to master some tricks, or you need to understand the profound meaning of calligraphy. It is not enough to practice hard. In fact, the most direct way to learn calligraphy well is to paste it, which is recognized as the best way to learn calligraphy well.

As a kind of training, the first thing is to practice the observation ability of the eyes, read the words accurately, and be able to distinguish the quality of the words. Secondly, we should practice our imitation ability and imitate all the copybooks accurately. Over time, you will develop your own expressive ability. At this time, it is not difficult to improve the creative ability of calligraphy.

When copying copybooks, you should find some better copybooks to copy. In the process of copying, in addition to accurate copying, we should actually see the characteristics of copybooks, so as to show these characteristics in the process of copying, which is very important for the creative ability of calligraphy.

When choosing a copybook, you are actually looking for a good teacher. A good copybook can greatly improve your calligraphy and avoid detours. Because there are so many kinds of copybooks, you can't copy them all your life. Therefore, when copying copybooks, don't be greedy, but find some copybooks that are more suitable for you and copy them carefully, which will greatly improve your calligraphy.

If you have a good copybook in your hand, you can actually copy and learn it again and again, and understand the mystery in the copybook thoroughly, which is also very beneficial to your calligraphy. Moreover, if you write every word well in the process of copying, your calligraphy skills will be improved a lot, and your understanding of calligraphy will be more thorough. If you want to learn calligraphy well, you have to persevere, you can't be impatient, and you can't just copy copybooks every day, but you don't know how to understand the essence, so it's useless even if you copy more.