Beginners to calligraphy are recommended to start practicing with regular script or Yan style.
Regular script is currently the most standardized calligraphy style and is easier for beginners to master. Moreover, regular script is the basis of other calligraphy styles and can help you master basic strokes and structures. Yanti is more atmospheric and has strong artistic expression. It is easier for beginners to learn and can stimulate learning interest.
During the practice process, it is recommended to first learn basic strokes and structures, master correct writing postures and brushwork, and then gradually practice complex glyphs and chapters. At the same time, you can also combine some auxiliary tools such as copybooks, rice grids, etc. to improve the practice effect. In short, learning calligraphy for beginners requires patience and perseverance. Through continuous practice and accumulation, you can gradually improve your calligraphy skills.
Calligraphy is a unique artistic expression of the beauty of words in China and surrounding countries and regions that have been deeply influenced by Chinese culture. Including Chinese calligraphy, Mongolian calligraphy, Arabic calligraphy and English calligraphy, etc. Its "Chinese calligraphy" is a traditional art unique to Chinese characters.
In a broad sense, calligraphy refers to the writing rules of text symbols. In other words, calligraphy refers to writing according to the characteristics and meaning of the text, using its calligraphy style, structure and organization to make it a beautiful work of art. Chinese calligraphy is an original expression art created by the Han people. It is known as: wordless poetry, invisible dance, pictureless painting, silent music, etc.
Origin
Chinese calligraphy art began in the production stage of Chinese characters. “Sounds cannot be transmitted to different places and remain in different times, so words are born. The words are the meaning and meaning. Traces of sound." (Yu from "Shu Lin Zao Jian", edited by Ma Zonghuo) Therefore, writing was produced.
The first works of calligraphy were not words, but glyphs - hieroglyphs or pictorial characters. The engraved symbols of Chinese characters first appeared on pottery. The initial characterization symbol only represented a rough concept of chaos and had no exact meaning.
More than 8,000 years ago, the Cishan and Peiligang cultures appeared in the Yellow River Basin. There were many quasi-text symbols on the handmade ceramics unearthed in Peiligan. These symbols were the ancestors of the ancestors. It is a chaotic combination of communication function, note-taking function and pattern decoration function. Although these are not Chinese characters that modern people can recognize, they are indeed the prototype of Chinese characters.