I am an amateur, but I have been drawing since I was a child.
Learning to use pen is very particular. People will repeatedly use the most familiar method to achieve their goals as directly as possible. Therefore, if there are too many bad habits at the beginning, it will be difficult to get rid of them in the future. For example, many people around me now hold pens and chopsticks in all kinds of weird postures, let alone writing. Difficult. How to coordinate fingers, wrists and arms, changes in force, and what gestures to write are all difficult to change once habits are formed, just like a person's local accent (not to mention that there is an environment to learn to speak Mandarin, and calligraphy is mostly It’s a person who writes, and the habit is repeated by himself). After all, traditional calligraphy for beginners is still relatively rigorous and even rigid.
Then there is aesthetics, and there is no need to say more about this. Mainly combined with the practice of writing.
Children’s Kung Fu is always good and can lay a solid foundation. In calligraphy, the aesthetic system is very mature and unified, unlike contemporary art schools, so the foundation is very rigorous. The later you practice, the slower you will get started.