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As a student who is about to take the college entrance examination, obeying the words of teachers and parents accounts for 10% of the success rate of the college entrance examination. In order to ensure a carefree life after college, I successfully transformed from a rebellious youth into a well-behaved boy. My mother sent me to Changsha to learn my skills and prepare for the college entrance examination a year later.
My specialty is Chinese painting, and calligraphy by the way. Because the teacher said that one of the reasons for high scores in the college entrance examination is neat handwriting, and my handwriting with a ghostly character style will never pass.
When I first arrived in Changsha, I had never touched a calligraphy brush and I inevitably made a mess on the rice paper. Naturally, I was ridiculed by those in the know, except Zhao Chen. Naturally, he and I became good brothers.
Teacher Wang, who runs this specialty class, is a professor at a university in Hunan. He is fifty-five years old, but half of his head is bald. The crow's feet at the corners of his eyes are like cracks that go deep into his skin. His glasses are thicker than the bottom of glass bottles, and he wears casual clothes every day. He looks like a kind and energetic old man. But the surface is still the surface. In fact, apart from saying a few words in class, Teacher Wang almost never spoke after class, and he didn't even show any special facial expressions. He was as cold as an unmoved sculpture. In private, Zhao Chen and I discussed him frequently.
What I asked for was a one-month vacation for review classes. Plus the summer vacation lasts for exactly three months. First month. I learned the posture of holding the brush
and simple strokes as well as the steps of traditional Chinese painting.
The second month. Start practicing various fonts and basic Chinese paintings.
One day in the third month, Teacher Wang walked into the calligraphy classroom holding a sealed box. He said to the twenty-five students under the podium: "The first day of summer vacation. You have come here from different schools in different areas for one purpose - the college entrance examination. In the first two months, your You are making rapid progress, but I hope you can push yourself, realize how far away your college dream is, and do your best in the last month.”
I looked around and saw everyone else’s faces. He looked so excited that he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Haven't they ever thought that there are so many people taking exams for specialties, can those who just pretend to be good at it?
Teacher Wang's rare smile rippled on his face. Did I see it wrong? Then what just flashed in his eyes What did you pass?
"I will give you a homework today. I will come to check it in three days." After saying that, he opened the carton and saw that he took out a square piece that was polished. Smooth stones, crystal clear like round jade.
After receiving the stones one by one, everyone looked at Teacher Wang in confusion, seeing him take out a slender small carving knife and draw a shallow mark on a stone.
"This is a soft marble, with the smooth side facing down. You can write small seal characters with a pencil first, and remember to write in reverse font." Teacher Wang said while demonstrating. , "Then use a carving knife to carve. Make the knife deeper. Only in this way can there be traces." After saying that, he took out another stone seal that looked better in quality. The edges and corners on all sides were rounded, and the stone surface on which the characters were engraved was stained with red mud. The deep tracks embedded in the characters were like twisting and winding rivers of blood. I felt like my body was covered with goosebumps. A chill ran up my spine.
"You must finish it in three days and work hard to create the most perfect work." Teacher Wang said.
At this time, I saw the gloomy smile at the corner of his mouth and the cold gloominess in his eyes.