Nowadays, many adults have suffered from ugly handwriting, and there are also many adults who like calligraphy. At this time, someone will ask, do I need to go to a calligraphy training class to practice calligraphy? You can still practice calligraphy at home. The 15 Calligraphy Practice Network is here to tell you that there are few specialized calligraphy trainings for adults, so adults basically rely on self-taught calligraphy.
Many adults have this feeling. When they see the calligraphers' calligraphy, they are envious of their vigorous strokes, handsome structure, smooth lines and open momentum. When they look at their own calligraphy, many people feel ashamed: "It's like a dog crawling. The uglier it looks." I have the desire to die! Therefore, I realized that calligraphy is related to face, and I also wanted to write well, and I had the idea of practicing calligraphy. But if I really want to put learning calligraphy on my agenda, I often have worries. When adults learn calligraphy, they often set four limits for themselves.
1. My writing has been like this for so many years. Can I improve it now that I practice?
Many people practice calligraphy by copying new words over and over again in the homework assigned by their primary school Chinese teacher. If you want to write well, you must first understand the difference between copying and copying. After writing calligraphy for so many years, it has become deeply rooted in my bones. It is indeed difficult to correct these long-standing mistakes, but it is not impossible.
Those who write well are those who first became calligraphy enthusiasts and continued to work hard to practice calligraphy. From the perspective of calligraphy practice, every calligrapher is constantly absorbing the achievements of their ancestors. Especially before forming your own characteristics, you have to extensively study various fonts of Zhen (Kaifeng), Cao, Li, and Zhuan. Each font often requires in-depth study of the styles of multiple schools, and goes through several posts and posts. It took countless efforts to make the things in the post my own.
2. I am already so old, can I still practice calligraphy well?
For calligraphy training, most adults, especially parents, take the initiative to send their children to various training classes, and even force them to do so even when their children are not interested. They believe that if their children are young, practicing calligraphy will benefit them throughout their lives; but as they grow older, their calligraphy will not affect their income and job promotion.
Children and adults should have their own strengths in learning calligraphy. Although children have the advantages of strong imitation ability and quick absorption of new things, they also have shortcomings such as distracted attention, poor consciousness, low analytical level, and lack of perseverance. Once adults decide to practice calligraphy, it is easy to find the difference between their own characters and the model characters, and they can think deeply about why a certain character should be thin horizontally, thick vertically, long or short.
3. Now in the age of electronic information, is it still necessary to practice calligraphy?
Now is the Internet age. Mobile phones and computers are very popular. You can make calls at any time, chat impromptu on WeChat, and send and receive documents via e-mail. There are fewer and fewer opportunities to communicate with others in writing. Many people think that electronic information has replaced paper and pen and there is no need to practice calligraphy.
In fact, typing is just about controlling computers and mobile phones. The practice of writing stroke by stroke is very helpful in deepening the understanding of the structure of Chinese characters, thereby understanding their meaning, and accurately forging words and sentences. Without necessary writing practice, our language ability, thinking ability and creativity will be weakened.
The benefit of practicing calligraphy is not only practical, but also has a greater significance in improving comprehensive literacy, cultivating ideological and moral sentiments, improving aesthetic appreciation, and cultivating a rigorous and down-to-earth style. Chinese characters are one of the few "pictographic"-based characters in the world. Compared with letters, they are much more complex. They can be sparse or dense, so strokes need to be organized rationally to make every Chinese character "beautiful." Judging from the structure of the word, the composition of the word requires you to give in. The "pitch", "avoidance" and "response" of each part will give us inspiration: to be humble, generous and tolerant, and to be good at cooperating with others.
4. You are very busy at work, doing housework, and taking care of children, so you don’t have time to practice calligraphy?
If you really want to practice calligraphy, it shouldn't be difficult to squeeze in half an hour a day on average. Use this half hour to focus on copying copybooks. If you persist for a long time, you will definitely gain something. The essence of calligraphy practice is to change the randomness of writing, so that the written words become closer and closer to the copybook, tending to be standardized and beautiful. Therefore, reading the copybooks is very important. You must work hard to memorize the copybooks. The time spent reading the copybooks should be far more than the time spent copying. Due to the heavy work and life burdens of adults, I suggest you find every opportunity. First, take it out whenever you have time. Even if it only takes three to five minutes at a time, it will be accumulated over the years. Second, if you carry a pen with you, you can use it to practice calligraphy whenever you see discarded materials and paper. You can use local materials and it can be used anywhere. Third, even if there are no tools, you can still use your left hand as paper and your right fingers as a pen. You can draw in the palm of your hand and recall the glyphs on the stickers.
All in all, there is only one reason to practice calligraphy: to make yourself and others comfortable. In addition to the above four "concerns", there are several reasons for not practicing calligraphy. In fact, old habits, old age, lack of time... are not obstacles to practicing calligraphy. The key is to be determined and perseverant, so that the impetuous mind can be quiet for a while every day.
