book learners always start with temporary posts at first. Copyrights are easy to buy from bookstores. You often choose a model that suits your interests and hobbies, and of course you may follow the guidance of your teachers or parents. Talk about the post first, and try to be similar to the words on the post. This is an introductory stage of learning the essentials of techniques, which usually takes only a few months. After this stage, you can write a post without copying it one by one. If you want to become famous and have a family, you often have to copy several copybooks one after another, and then you can write freely and stand on your own feet. In the process of honing your skills in this way, you will get great pleasure. This kind of happiness is not so much when compared with others, but rather when my skills today are compared with my skills yesterday. Tomorrow after tomorrow, every day is more or less longer and more fun.
When writing calligraphy, we should use finger strength, wrist strength and arm strength, and at the same time, the waist and legs should also cooperate with each other. If you write standing up, all parts of your body will be active. At this time, breathing is deepened, blood flow is accelerated, and internal organs are naturally massaged, and you will feel great physical pleasure.
not only that, but also writing calligraphy can get aesthetic pleasure higher than physical pleasure. This is a psychological pleasure generated by the free creative activities of calligraphy. Beginning of life loves to create. I can still recall the feeling when I first picked up a pen to learn to write when I was a child: when I was holding a brush that didn't listen to me, I finally wrote a word according to the words on the copybook. A fresh and magical heat flow swept through my heart, and I got the real interest and beauty of the world because of my first successful attempt.
To engage in the art of calligraphy, in addition to practicing rubbings and visiting calligraphy exhibits, we must also learn a variety of knowledge, so as to improve our skills and create. Ancient masters of calligraphy and painting often asked artists to "learn from nature, learn from nature", that is, to visit mountains and rivers, observe natural scenery, increase social knowledge, improve their ability to understand and grasp the beauty of nature and the world, and at the same time sharpen their conduct, set aside their ambitions and educate their minds. The previous generation of calligraphers had such a famous saying: "Words draw for the heart" and "Books value people". The meaning of the previous sentence is that words are the external appearance of human psychology. The latter sentence means that calligraphy works are often judged by their character. These famous sayings make people realize that a person must be beautiful in mind if he wants to write beautifully; The only way to make your own words appreciated and praised as true beauty is to make yourself have a noble mind.
In this way, people can improve their knowledge and spiritual cultivation by studying books, and it is possible to make themselves knowledgeable, civilized and noble, love life and forge ahead. This is what Sun Guoting, a calligraphy theorist in the Tang Dynasty, expected of calligraphers: "People and calligraphy are old"-people and calligraphy have reached a mature state.
The famous saying "Books are more valuable than people" is confirmed by different positive and negative examples.
Yue Fei, a famous fighter against foreign invasion in the Song Dynasty, died at the hands of the capitulators on charges of "unwarranted". His handwriting is good. There is a cursive script "Hanging the Ancient Battlefield", and Wen Tianxiang's "Xie Changyuan's Motto Cijuan" is a paper written by the ancients. The words are majestic and vigorous, and people can't help but think of his lofty sentiments and heroic achievements. Some people later pointed out that it was not his original work, but now this post is still being reprinted and circulated. At the beginning, it may be that someone admired Yue Fei's noble character and wrote a word in his name in order to spread it to future generations. Of course, some people would rather believe that those suspicious works are really his handiwork out of the same admiration.
The negative example is Zhang Ruitu in the late Ming Dynasty. His calligraphy is unique, vigorous and dynamic, especially the large cursive script, which sets off the overwhelming majestic momentum with dripping ink and jumping lines, giving viewers great freshness and temptation. However, his character was despised by the people of the time and later generations, which covered up his artistic achievements. He is the adopted son of Quan Yan Wei Zhongxian and served as a prime minister. Later calligraphers hated him and seldom mentioned and studied him.
Huangshan belittles its books because of people, and the value of calligraphy itself has been devalued, which is really a pity from an artistic point of view. However, books are the art of gentlemen, and when readers read books, they must think of the author's personality. It is difficult for them to completely separate the two.
The beauty of skill is also the focus of fascination for those who appreciate calligraphy. People with more appreciation experience always want to ponder a masterpiece carefully, taste the beauty of calligraphy, and taste the meaning beyond ink and rhyme.
The beauty of calligraphy skill brings the distance between the appreciator and the creator closer, and makes the appreciator more willing to be a collaborator or bosom friend in interpreting and recreating this work, no matter whether the author is an ancient person over a thousand years old or a calligrapher who has never met him thousands of miles away.
In the eyes of careful, experienced and imaginative appreciators, a calligraphy work cannot have only one interpretation, that is, the interpretation made by the calligrapher himself or an authority, and its aesthetic implication and value should be an unfixed variable. Therefore, the appreciator is immersed in the beauty of this work, trying to explore more connotations and values in the work with his own aesthetic experience, cultural knowledge and life experience, and to dig out the author's intentions, emotions, thoughts, artistic principles and spirit of the times buried behind it, all of which are hard for the author to say or keep secret. One is to keep silent, and the other is to find out. This is the strong interest in appreciating the beauty of skill. From the perspective of the history of calligraphy development, because the appreciators with more appreciation experience can find valuable things from the calligraphy works that have always been regarded as mediocre or even poor, this adds many new contents to the calligraphy tradition, which is very beneficial to the innovation and development of calligraphy.