What is the ratio of water to ink when writing calligraphy and mixing ink?

My suggestion is that if you put too much water, you can practice on newspapers and draft paper, because these two kinds of paper are cheaper and more affordable. The most important thing, of course, is that if you put too much water, you will immediately render a piece of paper, because once you write directly on it with rice paper, you will definitely render it immediately. These are the questions that every calligraphy lover will ask at the beginning, so don't worry about adding too much water, just switch to newspapers or draft paper. In this way, on the one hand, you can not waste too much ink on the water just now, and on the other hand, you can practice the calligraphy shelf (that is, the structure), while using rice paper to practice the brushwork mainly, and of course the structure is also practiced. And what you said about the proportion. I think the proportion depends on the size of the characters. For example, you can use 1 (water): 3 (ink) to write big characters in a single book, which can achieve the effect of distracting attention, while you can pour a proper amount of ink and a little water into big characters, Chinese characters and small characters.