How to choose a font if you want to practice calligraphy?

We often say that words are just like people, which I quite agree with. We don't mean that if people are handsome, their words will look good, and if people are ugly, their words will be very embarrassing. In my opinion, writing Chinese characters is really the embodiment of a person's mood and aesthetic pursuit. From a person's writing, we can probably see a little clue about his personality. For example, if a person writes with great enthusiasm and fluency, it is really hard for me to believe that he is a very introverted person in other aspects. On the contrary, if a person writes with a slow pen rhythm and a delicate structure, I don't think he will be an impetuous person with poor psychological control. Therefore, font style has a great relationship with the writer himself, which is a relationship between flow and source, branch and stem. It is not worth the loss to blindly pursue font style without the writer's own perception experience, and it is easy to lose the happiness and enthusiasm of writing.

Practicing calligraphy generally goes through several stages: Like me, one day in the third grade, when the teacher was spitting on the platform, I suddenly found that the Songti characters in the textbook were very beautiful, so I tried to describe him and analyze his structural relationship. One class passed quickly. For the first time, I felt that writing seemed to be a wonderful experience. After that, I spent half a year in the third grade. This is a stage of laying a foundation, and it is a cognitive process in which most people are similar. Only by knowing the structural proportion of basic Chinese characters can we accumulate strength for the next step. The next stage is the stage of sightseeing. After I was admitted to the best middle school in my city, I was very satisfied and relaxed. At this time, I had nothing to do every day to visit bookstores, read the copybooks in the library, and read the handwriting of many famous artists, so I had a very general understanding of them. Wow, this one is so cool. Learn, er, this structure is awesome. Let's measure the scale with a ruler, OMG. What the hell is this? The most slowly, you will continue to find that every famous artist, every master, and even the peers around you, their handwriting will attract you, and each stroke will have its own moving place, and each painting will have a brilliant effect. One day, I suddenly found that this is the font I want, and I want to learn it! So, you got on the thief boat. Of course, what I want to say is not finished. I will begin to imitate his strokes, strokes, structures and strokes. In the process, your understanding of a word will be more refined. You will start to think about why his structure is handled like this, how did I understand the word at first, and what is the difference between us? Is he good or am I good? You will constantly sum up and improve in your thinking, and then find the shortcomings again, sum up and improve again. Now you will have a rhythm with your pen. In your own rhythm, you will be very comfortable, and your mood will pour between these three feet and inches, and your emotions will be reflected in your pen. This is the honeymoon period. The honeymoon period is long or short, and it will end one day. It's a special day, and you can't convince yourself to handle this case like the copybook in front of you. You will feel that you will be very unhappy if you do it like him. According to Fan Jiaer, this is not in line with my philosophy. Then, you began to use your own will to transform these words, the level of transformation is high or low, but at least, this is your own word, and you are writing your own words with your own brain. In other words, you are beginning to find your own style. This should be a process that is more in line with my experience. When writing lacks foundation, it is unrealistic to talk about font style, but you have the ability to rationally analyze the advantages and disadvantages, and it is limited to talk about font style. In a word, talent is the main body of everything. We think it is best to write this pen like this, so let your hand follow your heart. We are not a tool for writing. This pen should be written like this, so it is not called writing, but printing.