Writing is a kind of practice. In my opinion, there is no other way but to persist.

In retrospect, I persisted in the idea of practicing calligraphy for five months, from picking up a pen and shaking my hands to painting it red before pasting it. From the beginning, it was even more difficult to read handwriting than a dog crawling. Now I can complete all the stickers, but there are still seven or eight points. There is no way to do this, there are only two words, and that is persistence.

I remember the first time I wrote it, holding it to bask in Weibo. Some people laughed at it and the word was taken out to dry. I didn't refute it, because it's really rotten, rotten spicy eyes, and I want to vomit if I look at it again. Where did I get the courage to show it? It's faith, it's determination, it's telling myself and everyone that I'm going to start practicing calligraphy. Start from scratch, make a mark, and then start unremitting persistence.

Everything is difficult at the beginning, just like running at the beginning. The moment you put on your running shoes and walked out of the house, it started, and there was no turning back. Don't do it or don't stop. Because I had no experience at all, I went to the stationery store and bought more than a dozen brushes. The wolf-hair-wool one turned over the big letters and small letters of two brushes, and bought all kinds of brushes one by one, adding rice paper and red paper, which cost 300 yuan less. It was not until I started practicing calligraphy and met someone who knew calligraphy that I realized that some pens were useless, but that was the tuition I had to pay. Who told himself not to consult some seniors first?

Hong Miao's first article was written with trepidation, but it was a hundred times more perfect than the first word I scribbled. I am immersed in the circle of friends with Hong Miao. I don't admit that it was Hong Miao. Because of vanity, I tell you that I wrote it myself and won numerous praises. Now think about it, how hypocritical it is to be so vain and eager to be recognized. If running is self-cultivation, then practicing calligraphy is definitely self-cultivation, because now I feel that there is really no need to prove anything to everyone, and I don't have so many desires for others to appreciate. Slowly, I will find that what I have gained through sweat and hard work will always belong to myself, and no one can take it away, and I don't need to prove it to anyone.

Someone asked me in the Weibo when I was practicing calligraphy. I don't know anything, and I haven't touched brush calligraphy. Am I too late to start now? My answer is yes, it's never too late to start as long as you like. From now on, three years later, ten years later, you may still be you, but you have written a beautiful hand. If you don't start, then ten years later, you will still be you, just at your age.

Someone also asked me, is his handwriting good? Is there any good way to make his handwriting look good? I said there is no way, and if there is, it is persistence. What is persistence? I'm not saying that I suddenly want to write one day, and it will take five or six hours or even longer to take out my pen and ink. After that day, I haven't touched a pen for ten days and a half months, and then I suddenly want to practice my handwriting and take out my pen to read it for a long time. There may be progress in this process, but it won't be too big. Persistence means practicing every day for at least half an hour without interruption.

Some people will be confused and want to practice calligraphy, but they don't know where to start. I have received a letter from teacher Wang before. He said that practicing calligraphy requires patience, calm down, find a few favorite words, imitate them repeatedly, separate the strokes of these words, and write them repeatedly until the strokes imitated by these strokes are almost perfectly integrated with those of the original words. He said that this method is called "one enemy hundred, one enemy ten thousand", because all words can't be separated from those simple strokes, so practicing in this way is more effective and meaningful than writing a lot of words blindly. I quite agree with his point of view. I will imitate it according to his words, and I can see progress without others saying it.

Practicing calligraphy is a kind of practice, which can temper people's patience and will. I used to be both hands and feet. When practicing calligraphy, you can get used to being distracted and silent, and all your attention is focused on the pen tip and fringed paper without any decoration. When I write down every word, all I think about is which way to go next and where to stop. I used to work for three minutes, but now I take out my pen and sit at my desk for five hours. I don't want anything but an occasional sip of water. That kind of ethereal and bright mentality may be really difficult to experience in daily life without practicing calligraphy.

Everyone says that attractive people must have a lot in common. Since practicing calligraphy, I have made many like-minded friends. Although some of them have never met, they talk about everything as if they were bosom friends. Sometimes they will seriously correct your small mistakes and tell you what went wrong and what needs improvement. Occasionally, problems encountered in life can also be solved among these omnipotent friends. You will find that people who like to practice calligraphy will have a more positive attitude towards life and behave more like gentlemen. The biggest change for me after practicing calligraphy is to speak and do things more calmly and with more patience.

Practicing calligraphy is really a kind of practice, which is about mind, from the inside out, from being a man to being a man. There is no shortcut to this road, no magic formula, only two words, that is, persistence.

In writing, I am really a scum, a pure beginner, and there are still many places to learn and correct. Thank you to all the teachers who put forward valuable opinions, to all the friends who supported and encouraged me, and to all the friends who opposed me. These are enough for me to find my own shortcomings and are the most precious wealth for my future study. Thank you.