Pang Zhonghua is the founder of modern Chinese fountain pen copybooks.

Pang Zhonghua, a native of Chongqing, is a hard-tipped calligraphy educator and a major pioneer of contemporary Chinese hard-tipped calligraphy. He is currently the chairman of the Chinese Hard Pen Calligraphy Association and was elected as a member of the 8th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Since 1980, more than 100 types of copybooks and monographs have been published, among which the representative works include: "Talking about Learning to Write Pen Calligraphy", "Pang Zhonghua Fountain Pen Copybook", "Pang Zhonghua Modern Hard Pen Copybook", "Pang Zhonghua Calligraphy Collection", "Pang Zhonghua's Poems", "Pang Zhonghua's Prose Collection", "Pang Zhonghua's TV Lectures", "Pang Zhonghua's Life Insights", "A Brief Theory of Hard-tipped Calligraphy", etc. He has edited a number of calligraphy textbooks, including "Hard-tipped Calligraphy Popularization Class Textbooks" ", "Hard-tipped Calligraphy Advanced Class Textbook", "Hard-tipped Calligraphy Textbook for Middle-aged and Elderly People", as well as "Writing Textbook", "Writing Copybook", "Calligraphy Art", "Pang Zhonghua Happy Calligraphy Practice" suitable for primary and secondary school students' classroom use, etc. The total number of books printed has exceeded 100 million copies. He has also been invited to give "Hard-tipped Calligraphy Lectures" and "Pang Zhonghua Hard-tipped Calligraphy Art Lectures" on CCTV and China Educational Television many times, with tens of millions of listeners. The Pang Zhonghua Hard-tipped Calligraphy Center and Academy he founded has trained more than 1.2 million students so far and is known as "the first person of Chinese hard-tipped calligraphy." "If I hadn't become a calligrapher, even if I were a pie maker, I would still make pie that is different from others. This is what the book taught me. That is to say, I must have something of my own."

< p>"Read thousands of volumes, and write like a god." In ancient times, the first book people learned about was often the Three Character Classic; in modern times, many people may have started their reading career with the Little Man's Book, and Pang Zhonghua is one of them. The Little Man Book had a great impact on his interest in reading. But in the 1950s, whoever owned a little book would be very envious of children, but how many people could own it? A few cents might be enough to feed a family for a few days.

If you can’t afford it, you have to rent. A penny for a book is not a small amount. Although his uncle would give him a cent or two when he had some change, this was far from enough to satisfy Pang Zhonghua's thirst for knowledge.

Pang Zhonghua started to use his brain and fixed his eyes on his uncle's leather shoes. Every time my uncle's leather shoe uppers came apart, he would be asked to take them to a shoemaker to have them repaired, which cost about three cents per repair. After several times, he felt that repairing shoes was not difficult. After a few trips, he got the hang of it. When his uncle asked him to repair shoes again, he would take them aside and repair them himself. Although his skills were not as good as those of a shoe repairman, he could not see any flaws. The shoe repairman asked for three cents, but he thought his repairs were no better than others, so he charged his uncle twenty cents. In this way, he can rent books with peace of mind.

Pang Zhonghua’s favorite is the bookstall run by Lao Zhang. In fact, Lao Zhang is not very old, only in his thirties, but to a child of a few years old, he feels like an adult. It takes me an entire afternoon to watch it. You can read one book for one penny, and you can read ten books for one dime. The stall owner, Lao Zhang, often "spares" another book. This is a marketing tool for Lao Zhang, but for a child, it feels like it takes up a lot of time. Cheap, I think Lao Zhang is a really good person, so I often go to him to read books. To this day, he can't forget the image of Lao Zhang. It can be said that Lao Zhang opened up Pang Zhonghua's childhood wisdom.

Epiphany at the age of nineteen

Blessings come from disasters, and misfortunes come from blessings. A small decision often brings a series of changes, thus changing a person's life. When he was 19 years old, Pang Zhonghua, who was about to graduate, read "Guwen Guanzhi". There was an article by Su Che, "A Letter to Privy Councilor Han Taiwei", which was about Su Che's reflections on leaving Sichuan when he was 19 years old. Looking at the famous mountains, the article is quite passionate. "I'm afraid of burying myself..." This is what Su Che meant in the article. Before reading this article, Pang Zhonghua originally wanted to go to the place where the motherland needs it most. However, it was different after reading it. He was full of enthusiasm and even pride. For a while, the famous mountains and rivers mentioned in the books by famous writers such as Li Bai and Ouyang Xiu came to mind. In the novel "Railway Guerrilla", Zaozhuang in Zaozhuang and Jingyanggang in "Wu Song Fights the Tiger", suddenly I really wanted to see it. Pang Zhonghua thought to himself, "He, Su Che, went to Kaifeng, Kyoto at that time, when he was 19 years old. I, Pang Zhonghua, am also 19 years old this year, and I want to be a contemporary Su Che. I also want to go to Beijing and see the mountains and rivers all over the motherland!" Later, the school actually assigned him to Beijing.

Not long after he was assigned to Beijing, Pang Zhonghua, who was under 20 years old, was inexplicably labeled as the "Agent of Sanjia Village" and was put under quarantine and censorship just because he liked reading Deng Tuo's "Yanshan Night Talk". He was sent to the Dabie Mountains, where Pang Zhonghua spent 15 years of his youth in the Dabie Mountains.

Faced with such a life, he did not feel sad or cry. Unexpectedly, he thought this was great. At that time, outside the mountains, during the Cultural Revolution, they advocated that "reading is useless and knowledge is harmful." Reading was not allowed. The slightest carelessness would cause trouble. But in Dashan Here, this is actually safe.

Pang Zhonghua believes that one day, knowledge will be highly respected in China and reading will become a noble thing. Now it is better to take advantage of the time when you are young, study hard, and wait for the arrival of that beautiful era. With such a belief in your heart, you will have hope and motivation in life.

Although Pang Zhonghua has almost lost his language ability due to his isolation from the outside world, his life is not boring. Every night, I read, copy notes, play the piano, and learn calligraphy. I enjoy it endlessly. When I am tired, I run in the mountains, thinking about the saying in "Study on Sports" in "Selected Works of Mao Zedong" that "all virtues and aspirations are in the body, and there is no body." There is no virtue"; shouting out the famous saying of the ancient Greeks: "If you want to be smart, run; if you want to be brave, run; if you want to be strong, run!"

I was reading the newspaper the day before yesterday and saw a long-lost name in a piece of news about a lawsuit: Pang Zhonghua.

There are probably very few people like me who were born in the early 1970s who have never heard of this name. In the 1980s, Uncle Yu Qiuyu's journey had just begun, far from becoming a big hit. Teacher Yi Zhongtian was still working on his literary aesthetics on Luojia Mountain. At that time, cultural stars such as Jin Yong, Qiong Yao, Wang Guozhen, Fei Xiang, etc. who were popular all over the country are still often mentioned by people today. However, Pang Zhonghua, who was not as famous as these people at the time, is now known to people after the 1980s. Not much, I'm afraid.

At that time, it was very fashionable for young boys and girls who were in love to copy the poems of Xi Murong and Wang Guozhen to the opposite sex using pen calligraphy in Chinese style.

Before the advent of computers, writing well was definitely a budding capital. Pang Zhonghua was born. The reason for his success was not to dwell on the so-called charm of the art of calligraphy, but to capture the common needs of people who read and know calligraphy: calligraphy is the face of one's family and should not be too embarrassing. Pang Zhonghua held hard-pen calligraphy training classes everywhere, and the style was similar to New Oriental, which teaches foreign languages ??today. The success of New Oriental is to focus on one point and not the rest. It just tells you how to cope with various English exams. As for the ultimate function of language: the ability to communicate with others, you don’t need to think too much. Pang Zhonghua's hard-tipped calligraphy training follows the same approach. You can ignore the personality and expressiveness of calligraphy. What is training you is to write neatly and elegantly, look comfortable, and be able to cope with it in the workplace and in love.

The biggest feature of Ponzi’s hard-tipped calligraphy training is that it is quick and easy. It throws away all the mysterious and mysterious things about the art of calligraphy and allows you to copy his handwriting stroke by stroke. In the end, your writing will be smooth and smooth, without any personality. But not ugly. It is said that during the imperial examination period, it was popular to take the imperial examination in Guange style. The characters should be large, dark, and soft, so that the emperor and other grading officials would feel comfortable reading them. Pang Zhonghua's pen calligraphy can basically be regarded as the popular "Guange style" of that era. From the late 1980s to the early 1990s, it can be said that wherever there are scholars, there must be Pang Tie. It is estimated that half of my classmates in high school and college have practiced Pang Zhonghua's calligraphy. When I was in college, I had a brother who wrote well and wrote a deeply affectionate letter to the girl he had admired for a long time. However, because the handwriting was crooked, the girl with high vision did not like him. This guy was brave enough to learn his shame, so he bought Pang Zhonghua's copybook, practiced hard for a year, and finally transformed his handwriting. After I graduated from college, I went to a large factory to report. The director of the factory office saw my resume written with a pen and said, "This guy has good handwriting. The office needs it." So he stayed in the factory office to work in the free workshop.

When using computers to input Chinese characters became popular, I was very annoyed and resolutely resisted computers. I stubbornly wrote neatly on graph paper with a pen, proudly. But just like the brave Mongolian warriors had to withdraw from the stage of history after the invention of guns, I don’t know when one day I finally gave up my persistence in handwriting and became an Internet bug.

Pang Zhonghua must hate those experts who solve the problem of computer Chinese character input even more than I did at that time. Think about it back then, Lao Pang’s copybook was a super best-seller, and every training class across the country was full. I remember that it was about In 1991, I heard from a senior fellow student that Pang Zhonghua owned two cars. I was so surprised that my jaw dropped. How could I make so much money teaching people how to write?

Nowadays, there are computer training courses everywhere. Boys and girls communicate through QQ and e-mail. All one needs to do is practice his signature. Who still remembers Pang Zhonghua?