Pang Zhonghua's best seller.

In 1980s and 1990s, the word "Pang Zhonghua" brought a wave of hard-pen calligraphy that swept through China. At that time, many families had at least one Pang Zhonghua's pen on their desks. Many children practice a few more Pang Zhonghua words at the request of their parents after finishing their homework every day; The scene where Pang Zhonghua sat on the top of the TV and taught the audience to write with pen and ink became one of the classic memories of that era.

Not long ago, Pang Zhonghua held a "30-year retrospective exhibition of Pang Zhonghua's calligraphy art" in Beijing. Thirty years ago, it was from Tianjin that Pang Zhonghua took the most important step in his calligraphy-the thin "Talking about Learning with a Pen" published by Tianjin People's Fine Arts Publishing House, which greatly changed Pang Zhonghua's fate, made him become a well-known hard-pen calligrapher from an unknown geological prospector, and also opened the floodgate of China's contemporary hard-pen calligraphy. Thirty years later, the era of "Pang Zhonghua Hard Pen Calligraphy craze" has passed, and the way and attitude of writing Chinese characters have also changed. Although Pang Zhonghua is over 60 years old, he is still obsessed with hard-pen calligraphy, chanting enthusiastically: "The old man talks about juvenile madness, and China is still like a child ..."

The just-concluded retrospective exhibition made Pang Zhonghua and his wife Wang Changzhi exhausted. Near the end of the year, he and his wife decided to travel, and our reporter took the last bus. Before leaving, they came to their home in Beijing, Pang Zhonghua, and chatted with him about their calligraphy life in the past 30 years.

Pang Zhonghua, 65, looks exactly like the photo he printed on the cover of a pen copybook many years ago. Wearing a pair of dark blue sweatpants and speaking Mandarin with a Sichuan accent: "I bought these pants more than ten years ago and they are old brands made in Tianjin. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to buy it in the future, so I bought ten pairs at one go. I've been wearing it all these years. It's very comfortable. I have been the' spokesperson' of this brand for more than ten years, and I am afraid they don't know. " Then, there was a string of hearty laughter.

Time flies. Students who copy Pang Zhonghua's copybooks have now become the backbone of society, but at the same time, the rapid development of science and technology has made important changes in the way Chinese characters are written, and hard-pen calligraphy seems to be less "hot" than before. However, Pang Zhonghua believes that calligraphy is the most beautiful and moving silent music that the Chinese nation has dedicated to the world, and it will never die. In recent years, Pang Zhonghua has not fallen behind with the ebb of hard-pen calligraphy. He began to enter the pen-making industry, hoping to bring hard pen calligraphy to the world.