In theory, you can practice calligraphy by buying your favorite copybooks and practicing at home. But if you want to learn calligraphy, you have to work hard outside the words. Just practicing calligraphy behind closed doors or learning calligraphy in the form of "home" will take more detours. Although we can learn with the help of modern multimedia theory and technology, there are great deficiencies in atmosphere and practical vision. A threesome, behind closed doors with my teacher, can easily lead to a dead end.
What's more, having a good learning atmosphere and opportunities for on-site communication is always more fun than solo. Now it is better to read the original than the printed matter, and the reason is the same. It is important to study theoretically, but practice is also indispensable. There is a layer of paper between theoretical study and field study. If you want to learn calligraphy well, it's good to go out. Some excellent calligraphers in ancient times may have traveled and learned books. Such as Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing and Zhang Xu. Some even pretend to be collectors of calligraphy and painting and have experienced masterpieces from all over the world. It is said that the trip to learn calligraphy is nothing more than broadening one's horizons, not just staying in theory, thinking about art behind closed doors, and going out can also have a more suitable mood for calligraphy learning and creation. According to Hong Houtian himself, he studied calligraphy with several modern calligraphers and gave lectures and traveled all over the country.
For our calligraphy lovers, if we have the conditions or the opportunity to attend various classes, it is also a very good opportunity to learn calligraphy, and we can also learn things that are not in books.
Simply from the aspect of learning techniques, it is necessary to draw red and copy by thinking about words and reading posts, but it cannot be confined to such a narrow range. Practicing calligraphy with pen and ink will certainly make progress, but in order to pursue the art of calligraphy, it is very necessary to go out and enter the big circle, environment and atmosphere of calligraphy. It is not an empty talk to read the trip to Wan Li Road in thousands of books and write with ecstasy.