It must be good, as long as you don't think it alone.
Learning calligraphy well is the key. We all know the truth: rather than fishing in the forest, it is better to retreat and weave nets. Of course, it is valuable to ponder one thing in spirit, from which we can feel the beauty of calligraphy art, swim in the endless changes of lines, and even appreciate the profound artistic conception that calligraphy ancestors devoted themselves to calligraphy. Close your eyes, think of those pens, think about their power … and so on. Haven't you learned? The world is full of knowledge. If you concentrate, you will certainly benefit from it. Then I made it myself.
The following excerpts are taken from Six Taboos of Calligraphy, hoping to encourage you who also like calligraphy:
The first taboo is "one exposure to ten cold". This is the most frequently encountered in the process of practicing calligraphy, which Mr. Deng Sanmu once called "cold and heat". You can write 1000 words a day when you are happy. You can stop writing when you are unhappy and stop thinking for ten and a half months. The result of this practice of "fishing for three days and drying the net for two days" can be imagined. In Song Dynasty, Mi Fei's "Hai Yan Yueming" "If you don't write for a day, you will feel sleepy, thinking that the ancients never neglected books." Mimi is still "sleepy if she doesn't study for a day", not to mention us? To learn calligraphy, we must first endure loneliness and have the spirit of perseverance. If you can persist in practicing calligraphy every day, you will certainly gain something.
Of course, with the faster pace of people's life, bookworms often encounter situations where they are too nervous to post normally at work or study. Is it impossible to learn calligraphy well? According to my personal experience, learning calligraphy is very important, and reading method is also very important. I have no time to read calligraphy. As long as you regard calligraphy as your closest lover and think about her every day, will you be far from success?
Second, avoid assembly line operation. After choosing a copybook, some learners bury themselves in studying a page every day until they finish writing it. You don't observe carefully when you write, and you don't make analysis and comparison after you write. The word "pro" is far from the words on the post, whether it is written with a pen or a knot. This kind of calligraphy practice can only be called "Lintie". Sun's book spectrum says: "The viewer is still refined, and the painter is more expensive." Therefore, you should read the same page every day, and never be greedy. After a dozen times, I became familiar with the original post before I could change a page. Read the post before posting (there are many articles about reading the post in China pen calligraphy, so you can refer to them). When posting, you must be calm and focused, and try to learn bit by bit from the original post, that is, to achieve a state of "forgetting me". After posting, when comparing with the ancient posts, we should try to figure out the gains and losses and find out the reasons. If you can't always write individual words well, you can also propose them for special temporary writing until you are satisfied. Only in this way can we avoid the wrong method of copying posts and make real progress.
Three bogeys "seeing different things and thinking about moving". Some people learn calligraphy. Today they have faces, tomorrow they have willows and the day after tomorrow they have Zhao. So there are many jobs, but often nothing. You must concentrate on posting, and don't change your mind. Of course, you can buy all the posts of a family (for example, Yan Zhenqing's posts include: portrait praise of Dong Fangshuo, pagoda induction monument, Magu Mountain Xiantan, Yan monument, temple monument, self-report post, etc. ), focus on one position, learn from others, and persist for a long time until you "eat through".
Four bogeys blindly pursue "nature". Su Dongpo's poem "Poetry is not strange, but naive is my teacher" is about the natural beauty of calligraphy. It is true that works full of natural beauty seem unremarkable, but in fact they contain profound truth, goodness and beauty. Some scholars with a certain foundation know that there is a so-called "nature" principle, so they blindly pursue "nature". What about their works? I don't say pen or knot. They are all written by the author, and there is no written law at all. Mr. Zhu once said in the 542 issue of the Youth Calligraphy Newspaper, Travel Notes by the inkstone: "When many people start to learn books, they often think that it is natural to follow the words, but they don't know that they can't do it." Their understanding of nature is one-sided and half-baked. What they don't know is that behind the natural beauty, there are great skills, skills and implications. Naturally, we must have a strong foundation of traditional skills and a very solid skill to stick to our posts. Mifei collected ancient Chinese characters for 40 years, and then he formed his own "naive" brush style. Wang Duo's "Forty years ago, the characters were artificially created, and forty years later, they didn't mean to be in tune, so they became everyone" (Fu Shan's "Frosty Red Little Students Collection"). It can be seen that the realm of nature should come from creation and rules. To learn calligraphy, we must first calm down, adhere to calligraphy seriously and think seriously. We might as well be more "artificial" and less "natural".
Five taboos are unconventional. In Chinese idiom dictionary, unconventional means "deliberately creating another set to express yourself", while in calligraphy, it means deliberately pursuing something "new, strange and strange". At present, there are frequent book competitions of various titles in China, but some competitions are too watery. The "judges" of such competitions often pretend not to understand and regard some so-called "excellent works" that have no traditional skills but are "strange" as "innovation", which also leads some learners to deviate from the track. They choose copybooks, and all the clever models are not harmonious. They only choose rare, broken or even weird copybooks as models for learning books. They want to seek "innovation" from these aspects in order to win "grand prize". This method of learning books that refuses to proceed from a formal basis will never have a good result. Mr. Zhang Xuguang emphasized that learning calligraphy should be done first, and then savored. Don't be afraid of not being innovative or modern. In fact, the more traditional, the more modern.
Six taboos retreat from difficulties. In the process of practicing calligraphy, we will all encounter the same situation, that is, when we first start practicing calligraphy, we will always make rapid progress. I will be happy to see continuous progress, and the more I write, the more energetic I am. But after a period of time, you will find that your handwriting is getting worse and worse, or even "regressing". This phenomenon is the most common in the process of learning books, and some people compare it to "plateau phenomenon". Many people are pessimistic and disappointed because of their "retrogression", and then simply "retreat from difficulties", put pen to paper and closed down, and quit.
Lack of understanding makes more progress. I hope you succeed!