What can I do for the society? I remembered my dream of being a painter when I was a teenager. At the age of five, I began to learn to write and draw. After taking part in the work, I have been teaching myself calligraphy, Chinese painting and oil painting in my spare time for many years. At that time, he also wrote quotations from Chairman Mao and painted portraits of Chairman Mao for many units. Now that I am retired, I have time to learn the art of calligraphy, give play to my strengths and tap my potential. If we work hard again, over time, we may be able to enter the palace of calligraphy art and make a modest contribution to the cultural prosperity and development of the motherland. In this way, my later life will be more colorful, and my life value is expected to score twice. A calligrapher said, "China's calligraphy art is extensive and profound. It will take at least twenty or thirty years, or even a lifetime, to enter the palace of calligraphy art. For young people, this may be daunting, but for the elderly, it is really a pity. I also feel unattainable, but I always feel that I will not give up. If I pay the full price of old age, I may be able to play a "side ball". So I calculated an account: from the age of five to retirement at the age of 55, five years of amateur self-study time is only calligraphy 10 years. If I can live for another 30 years and devote myself to the art of calligraphy, I can enter the hall of calligraphy art, knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, I would rather go up the mountain. At that time, I made up my mind to make a "bet" with my last position in my old age. If you don't succeed, you will die. In order to achieve this goal, first of all, we intend to sharpen our sword behind closed doors and take the first step of success. What is the first step? The first thing that comes to mind is "a great teacher makes a great apprentice". Where can I find a famous teacher? Will I accept it? There is no other way, so I took China's classic tablet as a teacher and asked China Calligraphy Newspaper as a teaching assistant. And immediately bought back a large number of classic inscriptions and theoretical books from Beijing Oriental Bookstore and Calligraphy Newspaper Service Department, and subscribed to China Calligraphy Newspaper for ten consecutive years.
How can self-study progress quickly and effectively? The ancients said, "There is a way to learn from the mountains, but there is no limit to learning from the sea." Even a genius needs 99% efforts to realize his ideal. Imagine yourself as a stubborn old man, and you need to work ten times and one hundred times harder than ordinary people to be successful. Therefore, in learning calligraphy, I follow the example of the ancients, "close the door to thank guests, do not communicate, stay at home, delimit the land as a prison, and study on the side." Self-discipline: study for fourteen or five hours every day, post 1000-3000 words during the day, and report to twelve o'clock at night. Whether it is hot summer or nine winters; Still lonely and sick. Whether it is the temptation of fame and fortune, complaints from relatives and friends; Or the exhibition was unsuccessful and cynical. Can be humiliated and unmoved. Always move forward silently and unswervingly, and never look back. After studying behind closed doors for five years, one day I suddenly felt dizzy and fell to the ground unconscious. It took about two hours to wake up and get up to continue studying. Later, I sent it several times and went to the hospital for examination. An old professor said seriously, "You have serious diseases such as hypertension, cerebral thrombosis, cervical vertebra, lumbar vertebra and cataract. You need to be hospitalized immediately, or your life will be in danger at any time. " At that time, my physical fitness was very good, and "Death" wouldn't ask me to go at that time. Besides, I haven't succeeded in my study yet, so I can't give up halfway for fear of death. I insisted on not being hospitalized and studying at home while taking medicine. Later, I miraculously broke through the "gate of hell" and entered a good place to study. In the past ten years, waste pens have been tied, waste ink has become a pool, and waste paper has become a car. Write hunchbacked, white-haired, infatuated, fascinated. Someone said, "I haven't seen this old man go out for ten years." Is he dead? " Others said, "The old man is stupid and stubborn, and he is desperate. He became a bookworm.
In the practice of self-teaching calligraphy for ten years, I deeply realized that "learning calligraphy should not only have the spirit of hard study, but also pay attention to scientific learning methods." I learned a profound lesson in this respect and took a detour for several years. First, I took a detour in choosing posts and posting. At first, I didn't know how to choose posts and how to post them. I just followed the crowd and ran with the wind. Most of them are painting, emphasizing form over spirit, and they don't know how to get rid of the false and keep the true, taking the rough and taking the fine. It took several years to post hundreds of photos, but none of them fully understood. Second, it took a detour in the formation of calligraphy style. At first, I wanted to learn from Wei Bei's calligraphy style, but I insisted on, Zhang Menglong, Zhang Heinv and others. I have been writing too much, thinking that writing more styles will come out. As a result, I studied for several years and didn't see any results. Later, I realized that I should choose a tablet that suits my temperament and type with the greatest skill to meet the requirements of both form and spirit. Then find one or two similar stone tablets, add and subtract them, integrate them with flexibility, and add their own temperament and cultural connotation. Then type with the greatest skill, and gradually form their own individual style of brushwork, calligraphy and composition, which has been delayed for a while. Third, we have taken a detour in pioneering and innovating. In the middle period of studying books, I didn't know how to innovate morality and the characteristics of calligraphy art, that is, in black and white. I mainly relied on exquisite, natural and life-threatening points and lines to express the connotation of China culture and the feelings of calligraphers, and realized the realm of natural Taoism and the unity of man and nature. Ingenious name, euphemistically called "innovation", actually runs counter to the art of calligraphy, and the so-called new color ink calligraphy art is formed on the basis of color writing and pattern and ink painting technology. The achievements are not recognized by calligraphy authorities and accepted by contemporary calligraphy exhibitions. To this end, I wasted several years on this detour.
Later, everything started all over again. First, we should focus on the Preface to Lanting Collection and the Preface to Saint Education, and then we should study the inscriptions on bronze in Shang and Zhou Dynasties, seal script in Qin and Han Dynasties, regular script in Northern and Southern Dynasties, regular script in Jin and Tang Dynasties, cursive script in Ming and Qing Dynasties and list books. Finally, four kinds of inscriptions such as Ode to Shimen by Han Li, Zhang Menglong by Wei Bei and Zhao Mengfu Engraving by Yuan Tie are introduced emphatically. Because I have the same personality, the more I write, the faster I make progress. Every post has been written hundreds of times, reaching the level of reciting, creating and amplifying. In order to form my own calligraphy style, I took the beautiful and elegant rhyme of Zhao Mengfu's regular script, the vigorous and upright spirit of Zhang Menglong's tablet inscription, and the bold and unrestrained spirit of Shimen's stone inscription, took the post as the body, wrote it on the tablet, and took cursive brushwork to integrate the book spirit with the stone spirit, making it a whole. And created a long scroll of 100 meters. After studying calligraphy for ten years, I have never forgotten that "if calligraphy is to become an art, there will be no foundation without tradition;" Without innovation, there is no way out; Without character, there is no value; Without perseverance, there will be no success. "The ancients said," It's hard to get through the Shu Road, and it's hard to get to the sky. " I said, "It's even harder to learn from books." "Plum blossom fragrance, not frozen or not? ".Since I retired, I have experienced 4,000 days of closed-door study and 50,000 pieces of waste paper. After all the hardships, I finally succeeded in my studies. At present, I can write running script, cursive script, seal script, official script, regular script, inscription and other fonts, especially running script and inscription, and I can also create nave, couplets, screens, banners, plaques, squares, fans, album pages, long scrolls and other forms of calligraphy works. In the past ten years, * * * has created thousands of calligraphy works. Among them, there are eight long scrolls about 10 meter, such as the Chinese long-character Great Wall scroll, the seal script Bailong scroll, the Kowloon Nine-body scroll, the Zodiac scroll, the Tao Te Ching lower case scroll, the thousand-character Hanxin scroll and the thousand-character lower case scroll. In particular, the long scroll of the thousand-character tablet 100 meters, with a word diameter of more than 20 centimeters. Its large font, novel inscriptions and factory of scrolls are unique in the history of Chinese character writing, and have certain historical value, artistic value, practical value and collection value.
In the past ten years, while studying, I have created more than 300 calligraphy works for party and government organs, social organizations, tourist attractions, temples, relatives and friends. From 65438 to 0999, with the strong support of the party and government leaders of Guangshui Office, leaders of Guangshui Book Association and Mr. Wei Datong, the "Calligraphy Exhibition of Macao's Return to Dragon" was held, with more than 260 works and thousands of visitors. CCTV and Guangshui TV reported live. After 2000, more than 200 works were shortlisted for various calligraphy exhibitions held nationwide and locally, and won more than 60 gold, silver and bronze awards. Among them, 1999 won the silver medal in China Huabiao Award Calligraphy Art Competition, the gold medal in China International Scientific and Cultural Achievements Expo Calligraphy Competition, the gold medal in the Olympic Star Calligraphy Competition, the gold medal in the World China Calligraphy Competition, the third prize in the World celebrity calligraphy Art Exhibition, and the bronze medal in the calligraphy exhibition commemorating the 30th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan. International Wushu Festival Shaolin Cup China Calligraphers Invitational Exhibition Gold Award, Century Longhua People's Poetry and Calligraphy Competition Silver Award, China Famous Works Exhibition Gold Award, First Prize of Calligraphy Exhibition commemorating Mao Zedong's birthday 1 10 anniversary, etc. He was selected into Hubei Newcomer Calligraphy Exhibition, the 4th and 5th Calligraphy Exhibition and China Chongyang Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition. Calligraphy works have been compiled into more than 50 national and local calligraphy classics, and won honorary titles such as "China Calligraphy Elite" and "China Calligraphy Master". In 2008, he was hired as a famous calligrapher by China Calligraphy Exchange Center, awarded the honorary title of "Person with the Most Potential for Market Collection Appreciation" by Hongkong International Auction Co., Ltd., and recently invited by CCTV as one of the 50 famous calligraphers in China.