Famous aphorisms to encourage calligraphy practice

1. If you persevere, rotten wood will not break; if you persevere, gold and stone can be carved. ——"Xunzi" (can also prove "perseverance")

2. If you don't accumulate small steps, you can't reach a thousand miles; if you don't accumulate small streams, you can't reach a river. ——"Xunzi"

3. The tree that hugs each other is born from the smallest grain; the platform of a hundred feet starts from the base soil; the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ——"Laozi"

4. A drop of water penetrates a stone, and a rope cuts a tree.

5. A thousand-mile embankment collapses in an ant nest.

6. Disasters often accumulate in the slightest, while wisdom and courage are often trapped in drowning. ——Ouyang Xiu

1. I have been talented and learned since I was a child, and I have high ambitions throughout my life. Others have swords, but I have a pen like a knife. ——"Poems of a Child Prodigy"

2. I have been too lazy to write books all my life, but I finished them quickly. The frightening wind roars day and night, and you can live in peace wherever you go. ——Li Zhi of the Ming Dynasty, "The Burning of Books"

3. There is nothing wrong with the brow, but the writing lasts for a thousand years. ——Shaoding of the Song Dynasty, "In the Mountain"

4. When the paper fell, the wind started, shaking the sky and seeing thick dew. What else can we do without painting and literature? ——Tang Dynasty Geng Mao's "Ode to Xuanzhou Bi"

5. When the pen falls and the wind and rain startle, the poem becomes a poem that weeps ghosts and gods. ——Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty, "Send Li Twelve Whites and Twenty Rhymes"

6. I don't like to be trapped by nature, and I often violate class rules. The class teacher often punishes me to copy the class rules 20 times, and I have to do three. Hold the pen together. I often tell people that this is how I got my good calligraphy skills. ——Han Han