First, it is very important to copy, copy or copy when practicing, which determines whether your calligraphy is successful or not.
Tracing posts is a common method for adults to learn hard-written characters. An important feature of tracing posts is passive exercise, which is a mechanical repetition of an action. This is completely different from practice. We know that when drawing a picture, we can basically draw one, but when drawing a gourd ladle, we often can't even draw three or four points. Even after dozens of strokes, your painting level has not improved. Because description is mechanical, the components of brain learning are only secondary. To write a word well, we should pay attention to "the idea first", that is, we can write it after we have the image of the word in our mind, but the description is just the opposite. Good words can't produce conditioned reflex in the brain, so they leave the copybook and write the same words as before.
Copying posts is a misunderstanding, and all you care about every day is quantity. Copy dozens of times and hundreds of times, the words on the copybook are the same, and the words written by yourself are the same. This practice method is nothing more than a kind of "copying homework", and you can't learn anything. Quantity and quality are not a concept, so copying is actually copying the words of copybooks, not the calligraphy of copybooks. Copying posts is still your own words, and repeating them is still your own fault.
Persistence is an important learning method. But you must know the essentials of posting, which cannot be explained clearly in a few words. But there are a few things to know:
Think about how the words on the copybook are written, what are the strokes and what are the combinations.
Second, the post should always be compared with the original post. After the first time, you have to go back and compare it with the original post. After discovering the shortcomings, write it again, compare it again, and repeat it until it is written. Otherwise, repetition over and over again is still reinforcing your mistakes. Third, the post should "make up your mind before writing", which means that you should have the image of words in your mind before writing, so you are required to read the copybook often and remember the writing method of the words on the copybook, and you will be familiar with it after reading it too much. Calligraphy "reading thousands of books, writing like a god" is still very important.
Second, forget your previous fonts and practice in a down-to-earth manner.
If adults want to learn Chinese characters thoroughly, they must forget their previous fonts, realize the ugliness of their own words, and even feel disgusted and disgusted with their own words. Then start from scratch, from the most basic exercises, and then to the structure. Temporary posts should be like this. When you write, you should still write in the way of practicing hard pen writing. No matter how slow you are, you should forget the previous font.
Third, correct the structure
For hard writing, the structure must be corrected first. Whether in hard pen or soft pen, we must first adjust the structure, which directly affects the overall effect of words. Choose a regular script copybook you like, but it must look good. I don't want you to write regular script. Of course, regular script is the best. The function of pro-regular script copybook is to correct the font and adjust the structure.
Fourth, we should build interest.
I suggest that students write a few words before practice, and then write the same words after practice to compare the effect. If the effect is obvious, the interest in writing will increase greatly. Often the effect of practice is very good at the beginning. After this period of high interest rate, it will enter a downturn, with slow progress and little effect, and interest will gradually decline. Therefore, it is necessary to make students realize the progress and advantages and cultivate students' interest. Only in this way can they practice hard pen.
Fifth, professional guidance and practice.
It is better to practice writing hard with the teacher, who will give advice to all aspects so as not to go astray. The effect of teachers leading practice is several times that of their own contact. Sometimes the confusion of calligraphy lies not in the gap, but in the lack of teacher's guidance. Do you know how many requirements a word has? Do you know the word "thousands of miles away"? Do you know what is wrong with your handwriting? Without these, progress is of course slow.
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The role of teachers is irreplaceable. Of course, it is more important to practice by yourself. You don't need a lot of practice, 20 minutes a day is enough.
Come on, it's not easy, but it's a very happy thing to practice your words well through your own efforts.