From getting started to giving up: How did your enthusiasm for learning calligraphy disappear?
1. Learning calligraphy is a step-by-step process, and there is never a quick fix, even if you are Genius cannot be achieved in just a few classes, a few days, or a few months. Please be prepared for a long period of time that needs to be calculated on an annual basis. If you insist on believing that calligraphy can be a quick success, don’t waste time and money learning calligraphy as soon as possible.
2. Ask students and parents to be prepared to face "difficulties" together. Learning any knowledge and skills is not "achieved overnight". You must often experience "you must experience" or even "unexpected" difficulties and problems, and calligraphy is no exception. In fact, the meaning of learning calligraphy is not only to let you write well, but more importantly, to let you learn to focus, know how to persevere, and understand how to "unify knowledge and action" during the "boring" practice of calligraphy. Welcome progress!
3. Nowadays, the country pays more and more attention to the inheritance of traditional culture, and calligraphy is the core of Chinese traditional culture. Therefore, many people who have not practiced calligraphy for a few days but have certain financial acumen, after seeing that the calligraphy training market is a piece of cake, want to have a piece of it. We don’t need to criticize these, as long as we have an enterprising heart.
4. If a person does not have deep academic experience, he will not really understand the internal rules of calligraphy learning. Even if he can talk about calligraphy in a "clear and logical way", it is just "talking on paper" , and even what he says are "advertising slogans" compiled by others. They will use various "theories" to seduce you, confuse you, and cater to you.
5. Calligraphy is art, and calligraphy is science. The concept that calligraphy is a science is almost never mentioned. However, calligraphy belongs to the "procedural knowledge" in scientific knowledge, which has long been demonstrated by education. The knowledge that we can usually obtain through definitions, theorems, or through recitation, understanding, reasoning, calculation, etc. is "declarative knowledge". The sign of declarative knowledge is "understand, understand" or "can recite" .
6. The sign of "procedural knowledge" such as calligraphy is that "it must not only understand", but also "be able to operate" and "be able to operate skillfully". Regarding calligraphy, in the end, all the methods and techniques require your hands to be able to operate, and they still need to be learned through quiet, focused, and correct writing training.
7. The ancients learned calligraphy based on kung fu and relied on diligent study and practice, and success will come naturally, because learning calligraphy is a top priority and a lifelong matter. Nowadays, what people want to learn calligraphy is to achieve it quickly, and it is about opportunism and harvesting less, because learning calligraphy is a secondary matter, an immediate matter, and an urgent matter that has to be done.
8. In fact, all the reasons for giving up are just excuses, and whether most children learn or not, and how long they learn is actually the parent’s decision for the child, and the final choice is made according to the parent’s will. , if you want to learn, you only need one reason: "You must write well". If you don't want to learn, you can find a thousand reasons and ten thousand excuses.
9. Many people think calligraphy is a very profound and inaccessible art. I feel that I am far away from it. It is true that calligraphy has been inherited and developed in China for thousands of years, and it has also gone through a relatively long process from oracle bone inscriptions to regular script. Calligraphy plays a very important role in traditional Chinese culture and can also be said to be a carrier of traditional Chinese culture. To this day it is still a very important symbol in Chinese culture.
10. The reason why it has such strong vitality and charm must have its mystery. As long as you learn correctly, avoid some misunderstandings, and have enough love for calligraphy, you can open the door in a short time. Learning calligraphy is not as difficult as you think, but there is still a long way to go after getting started. Gotta go.
11. Some people want to write cursive script, while others want to write official script. Everyone has different preferences. Then some people will say that writing must start with regular script. If you can’t write regular script well, how can you write anything else! There are many people who think this way, so many people who want to learn to write are misled by such theories.
Before we learn calligraphy, we must distinguish which statements are incorrect, or the expressions are not so clear and precise. We must have an objective understanding of calligraphy, so that we will not take detours during the learning process.