Which calligrapher's handwriting do you like best?

From the perspective of beginners of calligraphy, we need to be experts before learning. During this period, you need to choose a copy book you like for in-depth study in combination with your own aesthetics and specific circumstances. Judging from the font, this copybook can be seal script, official script or regular script. In this way, starting from regular Chinese characters, the purpose of establishing the initial road specification foundation can be achieved.

I started practicing calligraphy when I was very young, and the copybook I chose at that time was Dover Pagoda by Yan Zhenqing. It is precisely because of this that I have had a great influence on the aesthetic aspects of calligraphy in the future. I sincerely love dignified and beautiful, rigorous and standardized calligraphy.

In the middle of calligraphy study, your calligraphy foundation has been laid at this stage. What you need to do is to learn from others and learn from others. At this learning stage, the copybook is basically the one that is not far from beginners. Just like my first copybook was many pagodas. After laying a good foundation, I will find out Yan Zhenqing's other calligraphy works and study them one by one, and then find out the works of other calligraphers in Yan Zhenqing's era and study what I like.

As far as the later period of calligraphy learning is concerned, we can also call it the innovation period, that is, combining what we have learned before and personal temperament, we can write unique calligraphy. At this stage of calligraphy learning, the choice of copybook can be said to have no clear goal. At this stage of my study, I focused on the history of calligraphy, reading Oracle Bone Inscriptions, epigraphy, seal script, official script and so on one by one, and I went to school when I met someone I liked. This process may be long for many people, but it is necessary.

Therefore, which specific calligrapher you like is only relative in the process of calligraphy learning. Because you can't learn calligraphy, you must write your own calligraphy if you want to be your favorite calligrapher. So it's like drifting. But it is undeniable that the copybook that really affects a person is the copybook he chose at the beginning and is based on in-depth practice.