Guo Zhenyou: Text/Yantian Farming Cows. First, Chinese characters are the root of Chinese culture, the great creation and invention of our ancestors, and the crystallization of wisdom. It has made a historic and huge contribution to the unification of the Chinese nation. Why is Europe divided? Because there is no book with the same text. China is so big, if Pinyin writing was used, Guangdong and Fujian would have become independent long ago. The reason why they are always connected together is because the books share the same text. Although we can’t understand the words, we can write Chinese characters and we can communicate. It embodies the unique cognitive characteristics and way of thinking of the Chinese people and has a unique educational function. It is multi-dimensional, not flat, vivid, simple, and extremely rich in connotation. It is not just a symbol for recording language, but a symbol for transmitting information, which can trigger people's imagination and thinking. Words are symbols for recording information, and each word contains a lot of information. Therefore, in the long history of Chinese culture, the art of calligraphy has become an extremely bright pearl. Imagine that if there is no calligraphy art in traditional Chinese culture, it will definitely be eclipsed. Second, traditional Chinese education attaches great importance to writing, and writing is done with a brush. In ancient times, Chinese people had to write when they entered school. The first lesson was to draw red and read characters. This is the excellent tradition and distinctive feature of Chinese education. Whether the handwriting is good or not is the first sign of a Chinese cultural person. If you can't write Chinese characters well, can you still be called a Chinese cultural person? No. Therefore, if you are not serious about writing and cannot write well, it may lead to impetuous and perfunctory behavior in the future. If Chinese education ignores or even abandons calligraphy education, it is conceivable that the consequences will be serious. Third, Chinese people have a unified pursuit of book quality and character. Famous calligraphers in the past dynasties all had noble characters and great personalities; people with despicable characters, such as Qin Hui, Cai Jing, etc., wrote very beautifully, but no matter how good their calligraphy was, they were looked down upon and despised by others. Therefore, Li Ruihuan gave us an instruction, which is to write neatly and behave upright. Of course, book quality and character are not exactly the same. Chiang Kai-shek's calligraphy is also very good, and the calligraphy of important figures is generally very grand. Therefore, writing is still beneficial to people. Fourth, calligraphy learning has rich educational elements. It is not only a beautiful education, but also has comprehensive effects on moral education, intellectual enlightenment, physical fitness, and aesthetics. Inspire people to observe, discover, appreciate, identify, take action, take into account adaptability, innovation and other abilities, and exercise people's will and quality. Today's society is very impetuous. To calm down in this impetuous social environment, there are two ways to adjust your psychology and promote balance. One is to practice the balance beam. Stand on the balance beam. If you don't want to fall off, you must calm down; the second is to practice calligraphy. . Practicing calligraphy can achieve a relatively static state of mind, with a calm mind, a straight posture, full concentration, meticulousness, and rigor. Therefore, a particularly impetuous person can calm down immediately by picking up a brush and writing dozens of words. A good calligraphy work not only expresses the art of writing. What pen to use, what ink to use, what content to write, these content, form, as well as the material materials used and environmental requirements, etc. are all related to various subjects such as literature, history, geography, philosophy, mathematics, physics, and chemistry. In short, writing education is an indispensable component of quality education. Therefore, calligraphy education plays an irreplaceable role in music and art education. Canceling calligraphy means canceling the most important aesthetic education. Education without aesthetic education is incomplete education. If calligraphy is cancelled, it is equivalent to canceling aesthetic education from the root. The foundation of Chinese painting is calligraphy. It is impossible for a person who cannot write to paint Chinese painting well. When we look at a work now, we may not be able to find anything wrong with the painting, but when we look at the title... If the title is not good, the painting will be finished. Fifth, “Calligraphy is the highest representative of Chinese art” (Feng Zikai); “All Chinese art is an extension of Chinese calligraphy” (American Fulkason); “The core of Chinese culture is philosophy, and calligraphy is one of the cores of Chinese culture. "The core" (Xiong Bingming); "The world recognizes that Chinese calligraphy is the highest art, because it can show amazing miracles, colorless but with the brilliance of pictures, silent but with the harmony of music, which attracts people to appreciate and makes people happy." (Shen Yinmo). There are many profound philosophies contained in calligraphy. Philosophical connotations, such as harmony without difference, violation without violating, planning in vain, combining hardness and softness, defeating more with less, virtual and real, square and round, obedience and inverse, positive and negative, density and dryness. , drying and dampness, dividing and closing, movement and stillness, retracting and releasing, etc. All the philosophies of Chinese philosophy are included in it. Therefore, Mr. Ouyang Zhongshi said, "Writing is used to convey Tao, books are used to radiate color, and calligraphy is used to convey emotions." Write a piece of good calligraphy, and the brilliance will come out. "Calligraphy can express personality, thoughts, and feelings." (Zong Baihua) "In writing, a few words can make the meaning come true; in writing, one word can reveal the heart." (Zhang Huaijin's "On Writing") There are three realms in life: those who eat Realm, the realm of art, the realm of heaven and earth. Art has a restorative function in human nature. Now we Chinese people have enough to eat, but our artistic realm has disappeared. The disappearance of the "artistic realm" has led to the disappearance of the highest level of the "heaven and earth realm", which has led to a worldwide crisis of the ecological balance of human nature and people's hearts. Therefore, writing education is not only a technical activity, but also has far-reaching significance. Nowadays, some of our Chinese people's senses have become numb, their interest in appreciation has gradually faded, and their evaluation level has become increasingly low. People have become rich, but their spirits are out of balance; people have stood up, but their lives have become deficient in calcium; competition has increased, but their values ??have declined. So when I see a beautiful calligraphy work placed there, some people walk over and don't even look at it. Some very bad works still rush to look at it, saying that it is very good.

The calligraphy of the ancients emphasized precision, implication, playfulness, simplicity, and elegance. It emphasized that calligraphy is a life existence, goes hand in hand with culture, and is the foundation of human nature. Today's calligraphy is vulgar, full of impetuousness, strong commercialism, and lack of scholarly spirit. The official quality is too heavy, and the book quality is too thin. This is official morality. No matter how poorly written it is, there are still people who will support it. This is a very sad thing. Therefore, we must cultivate calligraphy quality. "Learning calligraphy is only a skill, but establishing writing is the first step. Every stroke of a high-quality calligraphy has a clear, elegant and upright atmosphere; a low-quality calligraphy is full of excitement and frustration, but it is impressive, and "Zonghenggangbang is unavoidable." (Zhu Hegen's "Linchi Xinjie" in the Qing Dynasty) Sixth, cultivate a love for the motherland through love of mother tongue and love of calligraphy. "The immortality of a nation is reflected in its language... The miracle of a nation's language is a wealth in a broad sense." Chinese calligraphy is even more precious wealth. "There is a great country in the world. Every word of it is a beautiful poem and a beautiful painting. You must study hard. The country I am talking about is China." (Indian Prime Minister Nehru to Daughter said) There is a famous saying, "In Russia, Russia lost Russia." So, today in China, China will also lose China. The national craze for foreign languages, ubiquitous mathematics and physics, market-oriented cram schools, intensive training classes inside and outside schools, and the decline of Chinese teaching and calligraphy teaching. Crazy English training institutions have squeezed Chinese learning, including calligraphy learning, to the point where it is difficult to gain a foothold. A country has three important things: financial capital, science and technology, and cultural traditions. If there is no financial capital and science and technology, it will collapse in a single blow. If everyone learns foreign languages ??and does not have their own cultural traditions, then it will be self-defeating. Therefore, awareness should be raised.