Why are fewer and fewer people learning calligraphy? Calligraphy should be familiar to everyone. In fact, most people should have been exposed to calligraphy. Of course, not all people can master the skills of calligraphy. It is not difficult to practice calligraphy well. Why are fewer and fewer people learning calligraphy?
Why are fewer and fewer people learning calligraphy? 1 people think this is caused by the progress of the times. There are many reasons why young people are unwilling to learn calligraphy. To sum up, there are the following points:
First, with the rapid development of science and technology, handwriting is gradually replaced;
In recent years, China's economy has become increasingly developed, science and technology have developed rapidly, and some high-tech products have been updated quickly, especially some electronic products, such as mobile phones! Now that we have entered the information age, many people have not learned to write. Some documents have been typed by computer, and mobile phones can also type, with memory storage function. Compared with handwritten materials, it is more convenient, fast, neat and beautiful.
Second, learning calligraphy is boring, and you can't see the effect in a short time;
Some young people are used to the fast-paced lifestyle and can't sit down and practice this boring calligraphy study. For young people, repeated practice is a bondage, a waste of time, a bondage to life, and there is resistance in their hearts!
Third, the high cost of learning calligraphy increases the economic burden;
To learn calligraphy, you have to attend classes, pay tuition fees, registration fees, guidance fees for famous teachers, and buy pens, ink, paper and inkstones. Long-term practice is also a lot of money, and young people have to work to earn money to support their families and pay off their mortgages and car loans. The pressure is enough, there is no leisure and elegance to study!
However, some old people are keen on it after retirement. Self-cultivation is good for body and mind, and calligraphy classes in some senior universities are booming!
Generally speaking, except for some students in professional calligraphy schools, few young people can persist in learning calligraphy. Actually, it's fun to practice calligraphy, and it's good to practice at home in your spare time.
Why are fewer and fewer people learning calligraphy? How old is the child to learn calligraphy? The best age for children to learn calligraphy.
There is an optimal age for children to practice calligraphy, preferably starting from 5-6 years old, which can be appropriately floated according to their personal situation.
Because children of this age can easily control writing pens such as writing brushes, and can also conduct simple teaching, which can clearly distinguish official script, regular script and cursive script. And they also have a certain understanding of the characters, so this time is a good time to lay the foundation for writing good words.
Matters needing attention in children's learning calligraphy
Confucius listed "calligraphy teaching" as "six arts" and became a compulsory course for scholars. In the following 2500 years, calligraphy has always been an important part of children's enlightenment education. Later, the children's enlightenment tutorial "Saint Amethyst" mentioned: "Rites and music shooting, the number of imperial books, and the ancient six arts are not available today. Only books are learned, and people can learn, read, talk and talk. " This shows that after thousands of years of precipitation, people have paid more attention to children's calligraphy education than other arts.
However, the current situation of children's calligraphy education is not optimistic. Almost all schools only attach importance to the education of cultural knowledge courses, while ignoring the education of calligraphy art courses.
The main reason is that calligraphy education, especially brush calligraphy education, is not convenient to popularize traditional, cumbersome and inefficient practice methods, and the modern way of text communication is gradually replacing handwritten words with computer writing.
In fact, parents all know that it is very helpful for children to learn calligraphy, and it is very meaningful for children to practice good handwriting from an early age. But most of them don't know how to teach their children calligraphy well, and they don't know what points to pay attention to when practicing calligraphy, so they often spend a lot of time and energy to let their children practice at home, but there is no obvious improvement, so they have to give up practicing.
And look at other people's children's calligraphy training classes for a period of time, and the words begin to look decent. The obvious temperament is different from that of children who have never studied calligraphy, and they will become more calm and confident.
This shows that the key point of children's calligraphy education is not to let children blindly copy at home, but to find a professional teacher to guide or go to a professional calligraphy school for targeted study, so as to get twice the result with half the effort and get more progress and gains in a shorter time than others.
Moreover, calligraphy is not only the art of writing, but also can cultivate children's artistic accomplishment and improve their personal quality. Therefore, a responsible teacher should not only teach children to write well, but also cultivate their good moral character and accomplishment, and improve their comprehensive quality in an all-round way.
The benefits of children learning calligraphy
First, learning calligraphy can calm children down, nourish their spirits and be good for their health.
In the process of learning calligraphy, children mainly practice, especially training the movements of fingers, wrists and arms to achieve coordination and flexibility. These movements are directed by the brain, and regular training is beneficial to the growth and development of the brain.
Primary school students are in the golden age of brain development, and practicing calligraphy in this period is very necessary to promote children's brain development, develop intelligence and cultivate IQ.
Secondly, when practicing calligraphy, the fingers, wrists, elbows, shoulders and arms of the human body move rhythmically with the writing of strokes, and various organs are also exercised accordingly. Although you can't see how much exercise is from the outside, it's actually like gossip, Tai Chi and Xingyiquan, combining rigidity with softness. This is what people often call "slow qigong".
When writing, you can regulate the meridians, breathe smoothly, and finally reach the correspondence between the heart and the hand, so that you can be healthy. Thirdly, practicing calligraphy can eliminate children's impetuous emotions and calm them down.
If you practice for an hour every day, that is, you have an hour of peace, only tension without peace, only fatigue without rest, it is bound to be harmful to your health ... you don't have to be a famous artist or artwork, but it is also one of its functions, to adjust your life and calm your spirit. The best way to free children from impetuous emotions and calm them down is to practice calligraphy. There is also a saying that practicing calligraphy is also a good way to treat ADHD in children.
Second, learning calligraphy can cultivate students' good moral sentiments.
Calligraphy is the quintessence of the Chinese nation. There is a long history of development from the initial formation of characters to the improvement of calligraphy art. In this long river of language and characters, there have been many great calligraphers of different dynasties and generations with different styles and excellent personalities and knowledge. Whether they are diligent and eager to learn, or their principles of being a man, they are all examples for us to learn.
For example, Wang Xizhi learned books to make the pool full of ink, Sui monks bravely learned to write like tombs, Tang Huaisu wrote books without paper with banana leaves, and Yan Zhenqing was an official with a noble character of integrity and would rather die than surrender. These stories, which have been passed down through the ages, have a strong appeal to the cultivation of children's morality and perseverance. So children learn to be human in the process of learning books.
Chinese characters are also a kind of culture, and for a nation, writing is a kind of cohesion. Because every Chinese character embodies the wisdom and essence of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, and also embodies a national spirit. Teaching children to write Chinese characters is to let them know and experience national culture, national thoughts and feelings and national spirit.
Thirdly, learning calligraphy can enrich knowledge and cultivate good study habits.
Learning calligraphy well must be based on rich knowledge. Yang Shoujing, a calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty, believed that in addition to high quality, "a person should learn to be rich, and the spirit of books is naturally beneficial to lines." Learning from reading is more important, which is the second gain of improving children's cultural quality-making children love learning.
Calligraphy has strict writing rules. Children can learn calligraphy while learning literacy, which can not only consolidate what they have learned, but also promote the improvement of writing level and make writing more beautiful and standardized.
Imagine that when a teacher gets an assignment and a test paper, beautiful writing can make the teacher look very happy, but the messy homework can't even be seen clearly, so the poorly written test paper is bound to lose a lot of points, especially reading and composition.
By learning calligraphy, students can develop meticulous, focused, calm and lasting learning quality. As Mr. Guo Moruo said, it is good to write the words in a standard, dignified, clean and easy to recognize. It is good to form such a habit, which can make people careful, easy to concentrate and considerate.
It is easy to do things rashly, carelessly and arbitrarily, and practicing calligraphy can avoid these problems. Why can learning calligraphy make people careful and easy to concentrate? Because calligraphy is a very delicate activity, if you want to write a good hand, you need to concentrate, hold your breath, carefully observe the structure of the word, and control the priorities of using the pen with your brain, eyes and hands accordingly. Over time, you can subtly change a person's psychological quality and develop a calm habit.
Once children develop good learning quality, it is very beneficial to the study of other courses and even the future development.
Practicing calligraphy can also cultivate children's ability of observation, thinking, analysis and expression. In the process of learning, teachers consciously guide students to observe and analyze the differences of various strokes and the structure of words, learn how to write according to copybooks, let children feel and appreciate the beauty of calligraphy, and think about how to express it in the writing process to achieve this effect. In the long run, children's abilities of observation, thinking, analysis and expression will certainly be developed. If you apply this good habit to the study of culture class, it will help to improve your academic performance.
Fourth, learning calligraphy can cultivate temperament and exercise will.
Calligraphy art can't be completed overnight. As the ancients said, the blade is sharpened, and the plum blossom is fragrant and bitter. The ancients learned nothing, and it takes time to grow old; Every day when the cock crows, it is the best time for boys to read. These incisive theories fully point out that the study of any knowledge must be accumulated over time, and you must never get cold at one time. Therefore, there is no shortcut to learning calligraphy. Only by learning bit by bit, from strokes to structure to composition, copying more, creating more, broadening one's horizons, keeping it in mind, grasping it in one's hands, reaching the correspondence between heart and hand, and creating no self, is the best realm.
It can be seen that learning calligraphy can temper people's will quality. Some children just started to learn calligraphy, forgetful, impetuous and inattentive. After practicing for a while, I couldn't sit still and even got ink all over my face. After a period of calligraphy practice, they gradually calmed down, and all these problems disappeared, so they could write calmly.
Why are fewer and fewer people learning calligraphy? How should parents help their children learn calligraphy?
1, master the correct writing rules.
Many parents think that letting their children practice calligraphy is nothing more than buying some copybooks for their children and letting them imitate other people's calligraphy. Although this statement is not wrong, it has limitations. I believe many parents will find that even if their children have finished writing copybooks, they still haven't seen any progress in writing, which requires parents to reflect.
In fact, children blindly imitate, and there is no grasp of the pen and correct writing rules. Without this knowledge, they can't write China's Chinese characters well. If they want to write well, they should know the correct writing order and actions, and pay attention to the size, collocation and symmetry of words. Parents need to guide their children to write rhythm and strokes during the writing process. You can't let children blindly follow the gourd painting gourd ladle, otherwise it will only waste time, energy and money without improvement.
2. Master accurate brushstrokes and strength.
The strokes and strength mentioned here do not mean that children should use brute force to write, but should master the strength and control the pen tip. A really good stroke style should be smooth and flexible, and the strength should be based on the shape of the words, so that the written words can be vivid, horizontal and vertical, and the written words can be considered as good calligraphy, just like a person's moral integrity and vitality.
3. Master children's interest and time to practice calligraphy.
In the process of children practicing calligraphy, parents need to play a drummer who is waving flags and shouting. When children make progress, they should be encouraged in time. Praise will make children full of confidence and will, and make them feel satisfied and happy in the process of practicing calligraphy. If parents find their children's mistakes while practicing calligraphy with their children, they should point them out in time.
The time to practice calligraphy should be controlled at about 30 minutes each time, which can arouse the enthusiasm of children and give their eyes a full rest.