Chinese characters, almost everyone can write, and often write. Everyone can't live without writing. But then again, not everyone can write the words correctly, clearly, neatly and beautifully, which makes people feel comfortable, but it is not dazzling and boring. We always talk about people's cultivation. Of course, there are many aspects of self-cultivation. But in fact, in China, the best way to show one's self-cultivation is to write good words, that is to say, good words are the most important thing to show one's self-cultivation!
People who can't even write well can't talk about cultivation. Or if the handwriting is not good, you are not qualified to talk about cultivation at all. Why are many "local tyrants" in society now looked down upon? The reason is "rich and uneducated". What's the use of driving a fancy car with a thick chain around your neck? Of course, we don't have any jealousy when we say this. We're just saying that people with money, education and good handwriting will wear gold chains everywhere. That's impossible!
So, what I want to tell you today is: don't be impatient, write it down in a down-to-earth manner, write the words carefully, and self-cultivation will come naturally. If you hang a gold necklace around your neck, you will be ashamed to find teeth everywhere.
How well the handwriting is, it is the external expression of people's inner cultivation. In our traditional calligraphy theory, it is customary to combine writing and being a man perfectly. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Yang Xiong said in "The Words of the Yangtze River": "Book, heart painting is also." By the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhao Yi said in non-cursive script: "Every mortal has different qi and blood and different bones and muscles. Close-minded and clumsy. The ugliness of books lies in the heart and hands. "
So, slowly, write the words well and cultivate them naturally.
Fu Shan in Ming Dynasty said: "Write first, people have strange characters since ancient times. Laws and regulations betray Kong Zhou, and pen and ink are irreplaceable. I haven't studied Lu Gongshu, so I'll take a look at Lu Gongyi first. The plains are full of gas, and Mao Ying is swallowed. " In the Qing Dynasty, Liu Xizai wrote in the Outline of Art Books: "Pen and ink are based on human temperament." He also said: "A book is like its book, like its learning, like its talent, like its ambition. In short, just like a person. " People often say, "words are a person's clothes" and "moral character is not high, so it is impossible to lose ink."
In the feudal era, books were regarded as an important condition for assessing character in past dynasties. Learn from books. If you want to be an official, you must write a good hand. It is difficult to write badly, let alone to be an official, and even to find a job.
Calligraphers in ancient and modern times still attach importance to extra-word kung fu. Song Luyou said: "If you want to learn poetry, you should work hard outside poetry." The same is true of studying books. Ming Dong Qichang said: "Read thousands of books, take Wan Li Road, get rid of the dust and turbidity in your chest, and naturally camp in the hills and valleys." Yang Qingshoujing said: "With rich knowledge, there will be more things, and bookish nature will overflow between the lines." Because calligraphy works are the crystallization of calligraphers' profound knowledge, profound cultivation and skillful techniques. It is impossible to create excellent works without certain knowledge and cultivation. Profound knowledge and peaceful spirit; Profound knowledge and open mind; Wide knowledge and rich associations. The outstanding calligraphers in history are all knowledgeable scholars. Only when you have knowledge can you be high, and when you are high, you can create a "book taste."
After Qin Shihuang unified China, he was full of ambition and toured founding ceremony everywhere. Wherever he goes to attend the inauguration ceremony, he will set up a stone there to record his achievements. Most of the words on these stone tablets were written by his prime minister, Li Si, which also shows that the art of calligraphy has been clearly valued in the Qin Dynasty.
We know that the Wei and Jin Dynasties, especially the Jin Dynasty, were the times with the highest attainments in calligraphy in history, and doctors in calligraphy were all set up.
Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of Wei Dynasty, has a high level of calligraphy, and he attaches great importance to people who are good at calligraphy. According to records, Cao Cao sent someone to visit Gu Liang who had offended him. Because his handwriting was very good, he let bygones be bygones and reused him.
In the Tang Dynasty, the government took measures to recruit people from books in an all-round way, and set up a "calligraphy study room" to train calligraphy talents. There are four aspects in selecting talents (first, style, second, speech, third, book, fourth, judgment and third, book).
Later, in the imperial examinations of Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the merits and demerits of calligraphy were placed in a decisive position. From a scholar to a juren, and then to a higher-level scholar, exams are required. After entering middle school, one was an academician and the other was assigned to various ministries and counties as an official. This imperial examination system depends not only on the candidate's political views, but also on whether his handwriting is neat. Therefore, the test paper requires four words "black, big, light and round". The ink should be black; Words should be full and full; The strokes should be smooth and complete, and this circle also talks about the effect of strokes. In this way, in the selection criteria, the conditions of calligraphy have been further improved.
Whether our calligraphy today is good or not has little to do with further studies, employment, evaluation of professional titles and being an official, but everyone's calligraphy can still reflect the intrinsic quality of this person.
There is a modern discipline called graphology, which is an interdisciplinary subject that reflects the writer's personality, psychology and behavior characteristics through the study of different writing laws of individual handwriting. It is a science that studies the relationship and objective laws between human writing and handwriting characteristics and people's internal quality, and is closely related to psychology, behavior, talent science and other disciplines. Dumas, a famous French writer, also said: "Graphology is a science with high frequency, because it can understand a person without meeting." It seems that China ancients said that "books are like people" still has certain scientific basis.
To write well and reach the height of calligraphy, we must honestly learn from the valuable experience of our predecessors, carefully copy their inscriptions, and constantly correct our random writing habits according to their brushwork, stippling, Mo Yun, structure and rhyme. Learn from others' strengths and persevere. On the basis of constantly improving cultural literacy, we can make our own handwriting reach a higher level of calligraphy.
When we eagerly pursue the calligrapher's memorial tablet, we are often impressed by the ancient calligrapher's character and works, and our impetuous, vain and proud hearts will stop.
Calligraphy is a spiritual product, and it is impossible for a person to create artistic products without a few artistic cells. This artistic accomplishment has innate factors, more importantly, acquired efforts, which can not be learned by reading one or two "Aesthetics". "Look at a thousand swords before you know the instrument, practice a thousand songs before you know the sound", and artistic accomplishment should be gradually cultivated from long-term study and practice.
Calligraphy is written in Chinese characters, and words are connected into words. No matter what it means, just considering words means that a person has no soul. When reading and writing calligraphy works, we should learn ancient prose, poems, famous sayings, epigrams and expositions, understand history, and understand the historical background, experience and personality of calligraphers. At the same time, I have not only broadened my knowledge, but also been influenced by traditional culture and calligrapher's personality, and have a deeper and more specific understanding of the profound connotation of traditional culture.
Therefore, the process of learning, copying and creating calligraphy is also a process of cultivating mind, tempering will and improving self-cultivation.
Therefore, it is too early to talk about self-cultivation because of poor handwriting!