Why can't the brush always write well?

Many friends are envious of the vigorous strokes, beautiful structure, smooth lines and momentum written by calligraphers. Looking at their own handwriting, many people are ashamed: "Like a dog crawling, the uglier it looks." My heart is dead! Therefore, many people realize that calligraphy is related to face, and they also want to write well. At one time, they flashed the idea of practicing calligraphy. But if you really want to put things on the agenda, you often have concerns:

First, my handwriting has long been stereotyped. How are you now?

Most people only practice calligraphy in the lower grades of primary school and copy new words over and over again in the homework assigned by the Chinese teacher. If the writing posture is incorrect and the font is not neat, the teacher will point it out. However, due to the large number of students and heavy teaching tasks, it is impossible for every student to embark on the road of standardization. With all kinds of writing mistakes, students move from junior to senior, and from students to adults.

If you want to write well, there is no doubt that you must change your bad habit of writing. Correcting these long-standing mistakes is indeed difficult, but it is not impossible. From the perspective of practicing calligraphy, every calligrapher is constantly absorbing the achievements of his ancestors. Especially before forming your own characteristics, you always have to learn all kinds of fonts, such as Zhen (Kai), Cao, Li and Zhuan. Each font often requires in-depth study of the styles of many schools. After several postings and postings, it takes countless efforts to turn the things in the post into your own. From the initial calligraphy lover to becoming a famous artist, it is a process of constantly forming oneself and constantly surpassing oneself. For example, Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher, first studied calligraphy with Wei Shuo, then changed to a beginner, and then learned from Zhong You and other famous artists of the previous generation, thus connecting the past with the future, turning the simple calligraphy style into a beautiful and fluent modern style and making creative contributions to regular script, running script and cursive script. Besides, Yan Zhenqing, a beginner of Chu Suiliang, came from Zhang Xu and wrote dignified and dignified regular script with the help of seal script, creating a new style other than the two kings.

The practice of these famous artists proves that any special-shaped character can be broken through. Broadly speaking, no matter studying, doing business or going into politics, who hasn't racked their brains to climb new heights? If this spirit is extended to calligraphy practice, the expected goal will be achieved.

Second, I am old, can I practice my handwriting well?

For practicing calligraphy, most adults, especially parents, will take the initiative to send their children to various training classes. Even if the children are not interested, they are still forced to do it. They think that children are still young, and practicing good words can benefit them for life; But my old age, stable job and ugly handwriting will not affect my income and promotion. Therefore, be strict with children, be lenient with yourself, and find excuses for not practicing calligraphy, such as being stupid and clumsy.

Compared with adults, children have the advantages of strong imitation and quick absorption of new things, but they also have the disadvantages of distraction, poor consciousness, low analytical level and lack of perseverance. But once adults decide to practice calligraphy, they will not be lazy on purpose, and they do not need the supervision and encouragement of others. It is easy to find the gap between your own words and standard words, and you can also think deeply about why a word should be thin horizontally, thick vertically and short in length.

Adults can achieve something even if they start late. Since ancient times, there have been many famous teachers who are late bloomers. For example, Liang Hao of Song Dynasty was admitted to Jinshi at the age of 82. In the Ming Dynasty, Li Zhi was 54 years old. He abandoned his official position to study and decided to write a book. His representative works "Burning Books" and "Collection of Books" were completed at the age of 64 and 73 respectively. The same is true of writing. As long as you can write, age is not an obstacle.

It's the information age, so it's necessary to practice calligraphy?

Internet, mobile phones and computers are very popular now. Phone calls can be made at any time, short messages can be compiled at any time, QQ can chat impromptu, and files can be sent and received by email. Most enterprises and institutions are implementing "paperless office", and there are fewer and fewer opportunities for written communication with others. Many young people conclude that computer keyboards will eventually replace paper and pens, and there is no need to practice writing.

Is writing with a pen really useless? The survey found that most young people are used to using pinyin input method when playing computers and mobile phones. Although the typing speed is fast, the "typed" articles are often words, and the sentences are awkward to read. It turns out that when fingers "dance" on the keyboard, a number of homonyms are produced by a bullet, and it is often too late to choose the right one. Their mastery of Chinese characters focuses on memorizing pronunciation and ignores fonts. Many young people say, "I type very fast, but as soon as I pick up the pen, I feel my head is empty, and some words really can't be written ..."

In fact, typing is just manipulating computers and mobile phones. The practice of writing one stroke at a time is very helpful to deepen the understanding of the structure of Chinese characters, and then understand their meanings, and refine words and make sentences accurately. Without necessary writing practice, our language ability, thinking ability and creativity will be weakened. Some experts pointed out that writing words stroke by stroke can form special memories in the language central system of the brain, which plays a great role in people's will, endurance, perseverance and the stability of the nervous system, and is very beneficial to the coordinated development of cerebellum control ability.

The benefits of practicing calligraphy are not only practical, but also of greater significance in improving comprehensive quality, cultivating ideological and moral sentiments, improving aesthetic appreciation ability and cultivating rigorous and realistic style. Chinese characters are one of the few characters based on hieroglyphics in the world. Compared with letters, they are much more complicated, either rough or impenetrable, so it is necessary to organize the strokes reasonably to make every Chinese character "beautiful". As far as the structure of Chinese characters is concerned, the composition of Chinese characters requires you to retreat from me, and the "pitch", "avoidance" and "echo" of each part will give us enlightenment: modesty, generosity, tolerance and good cooperation with others.

Mr. Lu Xun said: "China's writing has three beauties: the beauty of meaning is the feeling of heart, the beauty of sound is the feeling of ears, and the beauty of form is the feeling of eyes." Every stroke of Chinese characters has setbacks in life, and every line has taken away people's weight and texture. Through the traces of words, we can feel the writer's emotion, aesthetic taste and personality characteristics. A good resume may make a candidate stand out from many competitors; Friends far away will feel warm when they see handwritten stationery; Teachers' affectionate comments on quality reports are a great driving force for students' progress. People often say that "a word is like a person" and "a word is like a word", and the role played by a good hand is incomparable to a computer font that lacks individuality. Even if the computer completely meets people's communication needs, calligraphy can still exist as an art, so that close people can cultivate themselves. Taking calligraphy as a hobby is far more beneficial to life than computer games, poker and mahjong.

4. Busy at work, how can I have time to practice calligraphy?

"People run around for a living" (lyrics), which is understandable. But if you don't have any spare time, your physical and mental health will certainly not be guaranteed. As a migrant worker, you should jump ship as soon as possible; As a leader, his work style must be improved. Those who have to bow to each other will be inefficient and lose more than they gain.

Generally speaking, those who have no achievements at work and are slightly satisfied in life can find time to play cards, surf the Internet and watch TV. Some people even have fun all day and try their best to pass the time. If you really want to practice calligraphy, it shouldn't be difficult to squeeze out half an hour a day on average. Concentrate on copying copybooks for half an hour, regardless of hard pen or brush, and write at least 60 words every day.

The essence of practicing calligraphy is to change the randomness of writing, so that the written words are closer to copybooks and more standardized and beautiful. Therefore, it is very important to read posts, so we must make great efforts to recite copybooks, so that the time for reading posts is much longer than that for copying. Due to the heavy work and life burden of adults, I suggest that you try your best to: First, buy more copybooks, which can be placed in nightstands, bathrooms, taxis, offices and other places. Take it out as soon as you have time, even if you only turn it for three or five minutes at a time, it will take a long time to accumulate. Second, take a pen (or other hard pen) with you. When you see discarded cigarette cases and material papers, even if there is only a little blank, you can also use them to practice calligraphy, so that local materials are available and feasible everywhere. Third, if there is no pen and paper, you can also pick up branches and rubble and write on the ground when waiting for the bus on the roadside; Even if you don't have any tools, you can still use your left hand as paper and your right hand as pen. Before going to bed, when crowding the bus, when sitting in the toilet, you can draw in your hand, and you can also recall the fonts on the post. Stick to it, why worry about not having time to practice bad handwriting?

All in all, there is only one reason to practice calligraphy: to make yourself and others feel comfortable. In addition to the above four "concerns", there are several reasons for not practicing calligraphy. In fact, old habits, old age and lack of time are all obstacles to practicing calligraphy. The key is to make up your mind and persevere so that your impetuous heart can be quiet for a while every day.