Is Zhao Rufei's trapezoid calligraphy method useful?

Zhao Rufei invented the trapezium calligraphy method, which is mainly aimed at primary school students. These children just learned to write and need to develop good habits, so Zhao Rufei emphasized the writing habits, including holding the pen in a sitting position and accurately copying what he thought was the most important. "Accurate copying is the only effective way to learn Chinese characters", then is it? No.

Trapezoidal grid, as the name implies, is trapezoidal. On the basis of Tian Zige, the upper edge line and the horizontal midline are left low and right high, the vertical midline is moved a little to the left, and the horizontal midline is moved up a little, becoming a seemingly three-dimensional grid, which is intended to imitate the perspective of the building, so that the strokes of the characters are inclined horizontally, standing upright, closing left and releasing right, and loosening up.

The habit mentioned above should be reflected here. The trapezoidal grid is placed in a box, which is slightly smaller than that of Tian Zige. When writing, the trapezoidal grid is fully filled, and the horizontal line of the grid is tilted to make the words have a three-dimensional effect. Then, through this idea, the habit can be formed and the purpose of writing good words can be achieved.

Just talk about the disadvantages. First of all, children write in a full trapezoid, but they can't change it in Tian Zi. Secondly, the horizontal line of trapezoidal lattice is oblique, and the words written along it will have a three-dimensional effect. Tian Zige's horizontal line is flat, so he is used to writing along the line, and the words written in Tian Zi Gerry are still very rigid. Children can't change it.

The direction of practicing calligraphy lies in the brushwork and structure, not the grid. The direction is wrong.

Second, the trapezoidal lattice learning method

The strokes form a single character, and the single character and the radicals form a combined word. Stroke, monogram and radical capital are similar, so as long as you learn to write some distinctive monogram and radical, and then combine them according to certain rules, you can write all the characters well.

Zhao Rufei's idea is more than enough for writing standard or so-called hard pen calligraphy, so why do I still say that Zhao Rufei's handwriting is not enough? As a calligraphy educator, Zhao Rufei should have an accurate understanding of the shelf structure of Chinese characters before he can teach and educate people. But what is the truth?

1, the size of the word

In print, each word occupies the same size, with the same height and width. However, in hard pen writing, it is impossible to have the same size of each word in the writing process because the strokes are heavy, oblique and positive, and the structure of the word is different. However, in order to fill the grid, Zhao Rufei learned to write his hand as a printed word to require the size, which makes it easy to write the word dead.