What are the benefits of calligraphy?

The benefit of calligraphy is that traditional classic calligraphy works not only show beauty, but also inspire people, and have a strong educational and awakening effect.

1. The connotation of calligraphy mainly includes the following aspects:

1. Calligraphy refers to an art that uses the four treasures of the study as tools to express emotions. The ontology of art includes brushwork, calligraphy, composition, composition, inkwork, gestures, etc.

2. The art of calligraphy uses Chinese characters as its carrier. The particularity of Chinese characters is another important aspect of the particularity of calligraphy. The so-called "Six Books" of the ancients refer to the six methods of creating and using Chinese characters: pictograms, referring to things, understanding, pictophonetics, annotations, and borrowings. It is of great guiding significance for the analysis of the physical structure of Chinese characters.

3. The background of calligraphy art is traditional Chinese culture. Calligraphy is rooted in the soil of traditional Chinese culture, and traditional culture is the background on which calligraphy depends for its survival and development.

2. Expanded information - five calligraphy styles

1. Seal script: Seal script is the collective name for large seal script and small seal script. Dazhuan refers to bronze inscriptions, Zhou inscriptions and Six Kingdoms inscriptions, which preserve the obvious characteristics of ancient hieroglyphs. Small seal script, also known as "Qin seal script", is the common script of the Qin Dynasty. It is a simplified font of large seal script. It is characterized by a uniform and neat shape and a font that is easier to write than Zhenwen.

2. Official script: Official script, also known as Han Li, is a common solemn font in Chinese characters. The writing effect is slightly wide and flat, with long horizontal strokes and short straight strokes. It is in a rectangular shape and pays attention to "silkworm". "Head and tail", "Twists and turns". Official script originated in the Qin Dynasty and was compiled by Cheng Miao. It reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty and had a significant influence on later calligraphy. In the calligraphy circle, it is known as "Han Li Tang Kai".

3. Regular script: Regular script is also called Zhengkai, Zhenshu, and Zhengshu. It gradually evolved from the official script founded by Cheng Miao, becoming more simplified, horizontal and vertical. Regular script has the meaning of being a model, which has been mentioned in Zhang Huaiguan's "Shu Duan". People in the Six Dynasties still used it habitually, for example, Yang Xin's "Cai" article, Wang Sengqian's "Lun Shu Wei Dan Biography" said: "Dan Zi Zhongjiang, a native of Jingzhao, good at regular script."

4. Running script: Running script was developed on the basis of official script. It is a font between regular script and cursive script. It was created to make up for the slow writing speed of regular script and the difficulty of identifying cursive script. "

5. Cursive script: Cursive script is a font of Chinese characters, characterized by simple structure and continuous strokes. It was formed in the Han Dynasty and evolved on the basis of official script for the convenience of writing. There are Zhangcao and Jincao. , the distinction between wild grass and madness feels beautiful.