Is it better for children to practice one word a thousand times or practice a thousand words once?

There are indeed two methods of practicing calligraphy: one-by-one practice and one-pass practice.

However, there is absolutely no way to practice a thousand words once, or to practice a word a thousand times.

This approach is simply not advisable.

Of course, it is possible to practice individual words a thousand times, but if you practice a thousand words once, you may not even understand what words you wrote, so how can you practice calligraphy?

If you don’t practice calligraphy once, you won’t practice it a thousand times.

A person has to write millions of words in his lifetime, but this does not mean practicing calligraphy.

To practice calligraphy, you need to practice according to the copybook, so there is a question of how to practice calligraphy.

Generally, calligraphy is practiced from the first character to the last character in the copybook.

This method is good for getting familiar with the unified spirit of the copybook, and it is also easy to grasp the charm of the copybook. Therefore, it is better to practice for a period of time from beginning to end when writing a copybook for the first time, so that you will have a certain understanding and familiarity with the overall situation and creative spirit of the copybook.

If it is regular script, this feeling may not be very obvious, but in cursive script, it is very obvious. Therefore, when practicing calligraphy, you usually practice from beginning to end. Learning calligraphy in this way is also in line with the calligrapher's writing timing.

However, there are also word-picking exercises. The advantage of this method is that you can use this opportunity to classify characters with roughly the same structure for practice, which can be a good inspiration for comparing calligraphers' artistic treatment of structures. For example, the classification of the radicals of earth characters into one category, the classification of the edges of wood characters, etc. This method is tantamount to a targeted study of knot problems.

Another way is to choose single-style characters first. For example, "fire", "work", "green", "year", "water", "wood", "metal", etc. Practice these words first. Most of these single-style characters are Chinese radical characters. Once these characters are written, you will be good at handling combined characters.

Learning calligraphy is a learned process. If you are good at using your brain and are diligent, I believe learning calligraphy will not be difficult.

If you simply have no idea, practice slowly. I don’t think there are any shortcuts to learning calligraphy.

No matter how you learn calligraphy, short-term goals may be easy to achieve. However, long-term goals may not be achieved.

For example, the calligraphy practice method we just mentioned. Do you think practicing word selection will make it faster than practicing not selecting words?

I don’t think it will be much faster, but it will still feel fast in the short term.

For example, if we concentrate on learning 100 words, we will learn these 100 words well in a short period of time.

Choose words from these 100 words to form sentences or poems, and you can create works.

However, learning 100 characters does not mean writing calligraphy works. You can use the pen freely. Because each Chinese character has its own charm and characteristics. Not every word can be spelled out.

Let’s analyze the master’s calligraphy works. No word can be spelled out arbitrarily. Even if you can barely spell it out, it's not an impressive word.

Therefore, beginners do not need to be good at calligraphy, nor do they need to write a lot of words. However, after you have a certain foundation in calligraphy, you must have the ability to write a whole piece. That is, a calligraphy work should have a hundred or even thousands of words. Through such training, calligraphy can be practiced well.

Therefore, practicing a word a thousand times, or practicing a thousand words once, is simply outrageous.

Practicing calligraphy is to gain the ability to control calligraphy.

If we can only write "agree" and "no words", we will eventually be laughed at.

There was a stand-up comic in the 1980s. He said that there was a leader named Hu BuZi who liked calligraphy. However, he liked to practice the five characters "agree" and his signature "Hu BuZi" well. As a result, , I practiced these five characters so well that I was actually developed into a member of the Calligraphers Association.

Once, when I was invited to attend a calligraphy talk, Hu BuZi was invited to write an inscription. Now it was hard for Hu BuZi to die. Because he can write five characters that are considered calligraphy.

Don't dare to write any other words randomly.

In desperation, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and wrote a banner: "The words, the words are different, the Hu is different? The meaning is the same, the words are different, the words agree are different." When everyone saw that he was indeed humorous and had good calligraphy, they elected him as president.

I hope we will not become "calligraphers" like Hu Buzi. Learning calligraphy requires a lot of calligraphy practice and learning a lot of characters, at least two thousand characters.