The famous sayings about insisting on practicing calligraphy are summarized as follows:

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 millimeter; the platform that is a hundred feet starts from the base soil; the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ——"Laozi"

4. Water drops penetrate the stone, and the rope cuts the wood.

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

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

7. I have learned a lot since childhood and have high ambitions in my life. Others have swords, but I have a pen like a knife. ——"Poems of a Child Prodigy"

8. 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, "Continued Burning of Books"

9. There is nothing on the brow, but a thousand years of writing. ——Shaoding of the Song Dynasty, "In the Mountain"

10. 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"

11. When the pen falls in the storm, the poem becomes a poem that weeps ghosts and gods. ——Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty, "Twenty Rhymes to Li Twelve and White"

12. 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

13. The pen fell through the wind and rain, and the poem was completed to make the gods cry.

14. There is a pen in the heart, there is a pen in the heart, and the pen is the law.

15. If a pen writes quickly, if a swan flies high, it will always be dim.

16. Both calligraphy and painting are good, and they are long without words. Resident officials pay more attention to the reputation of political achievements, so they will be valuable in the future.

17. It’s better to send Cheng Zongheng off, and it’s better to keep it in your heart. Even the most expensive can't suppress its high, albeit ingenious, power.

18. Books, other heroes, articles, emergencies. Although it is the Tao and everyone can learn it, there are often many saints and there are often few unworthy ones. The unworthy and unworthy can and the saints quickly give up and have nothing to do!

19. I don’t like being trapped and often violate class rules. The class teacher often punishes me to copy the class rules 20 times, so I have to hold three pens together. I always tell people this is how I get good calligraphy.

20. Calligraphy is just a skill, but the product is the first key. The product is high, a bit painterly, with its own clear elegance; the product is downward, although passionate, but arrogant and impressive, while Zongheng is just violent, revealing quite the appearance of a mulberry tree.

21. Don’t write too many words or spread too many words.

22. I have been talented and ambitious since childhood; others carry swords, but I have a pen like a knife.

23. One word does not require a hundred days of effort.

24. Even if you are too lazy to write a book, you can write it quickly. The wind howls day and night, and everything is filled with comfort.

25. Different personalities and temperaments, it is better to use pens to express yourself.

26. Therefore, there will be no shortage of people from generation to generation who are virtuous, well-behaved, educated, and virtuous. People in the world admire books, and books are immortal.

27. Academic theories all start from the heart. If the heart is not straight, it will be moved by evil. Liu Gongquan said: The heart is a regular pen.

28. Words come from the heart; books come from the heart. Sound, picture shape, gentleman and villain look. Sound painter, gentleman villain is sensual.

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Allusion——Huaisu Bajiao practiced calligraphy

Huaisu was an outstanding calligrapher in history. His cursive script is called "Kuaicao". The pen is round and powerful, turning like a circle, unrestrained and smooth, and completed in one go. It has a profound influence on future generations.

Huaisu was smart and eager to learn since he was a child. He got straight to the point in his "Autobiography" and said: "Huaisu grew up in Shasha. He became a Buddhist when he was young. In his spare time, he was quite good at penmanship." He studied hard and studied hard. The spirit of practice is very amazing.

Since Dawei couldn't afford paper, Huaisu found a wooden board and disk and painted them with Japanese lacquer for writing. Later, Huaisu felt that the lacquer board was smooth and difficult to see the ink, so he planted 10,000 ink on a piece of wasteland near the temple. Many banana trees.

When Basho grew up, he picked off the reed leaves, spread them on the table, and wrote them down. Qian Huaisu practiced calligraphy day and night. The old banana leaves were peeled off and the small leaves were reluctant to pick, so he thought of a way. He simply took a pen and ink and stood in front of the banana tree, writing on the fresh leaves, even if the sun was shining brightly. He was suffering: the biting north wind made the skin of his hands crack, but he still ignored it and continued to practice calligraphy unremittingly. After he finished writing one thing, he started writing another without stopping.

This is the famous Huaisu Bajiao calligraphy practice.