Huang Tingjian, a calligrapher in the Song Dynasty, said: "The ancients learned to write, not all of them copied. They often hang ancient calligraphy works on the wall, watch them intently, and decide to start writing. " Ou Yangxun in the Tang Dynasty found the inscription written by Suo Jing in the Jin Dynasty, and was reluctant to leave, so he sat down and read it for three days. The more posts you read, the higher your horizon, and you will know how to write. There is an idiom called "eyes are superior but eyes are inferior". I think: eye height is the premise of hand height. If you can't find beauty, you don't know what beauty is, let alone create it. Many students think that scribbling is the so-called running script, and the reason why ugliness is beautiful is because "the eyes are superior and the eyes are inferior."
Second, whether you want to practice your brain or your heart when practicing calligraphy.
On the basis of careful observation, we should keep well-written model figures firmly in mind and engrave their glyphs deeply in our minds. Whenever the word is mentioned, we can immediately guess the shape of the word on the copybook. Do it with confidence and words in your heart.
Third, you should practice your hands when practicing calligraphy.
Practice your eyes and brain to find out how to write words. You can think of the best effect of words in your mind, but it may not be written in your hand, because your brain may not be able to command your hand, and your hand may not be able to command your pen. Hand training is to achieve the consistency of heart and hand and handwriting, so hand training is also very important.
Hand training mainly refers to strength, wrist strength and hand feeling. If you write for a long time, you will feel sore fingers, sore wrists, hands that don't work, and exercise more. This phenomenon will disappear. Students who often help teachers copy questions on the blackboard and students who run blackboard newspapers often write quickly and well. This is how their finger strength and wrist strength are trained. Also pay attention to practice the sense of touch, let the brain command the hand, and feel that the pen has become a part of the hand and an extension of the hand. Hands can easily command the pen, think fast, think slow, think light, think heavy, and write whatever effect you want.
Fourth, we should practice the structure and master the collocation method of font structure.
Because the key to practicing calligraphy is to master the structure of calligraphy. The structure of a word refers to the proportion of stroke length and the relationship between strokes. Xie Xiaodong sang in the song "China People": "The favorite character is the square character taught by Mr. Wang, and the square character should be like him …" The square character summarizes the structural characteristics of Chinese characters. I have mastered the structure of Chinese characters, and I have written square and beautiful bold characters. With a little change of strokes, I can write Chinese characters in various fonts, such as Song Ti, Wei Ti, Kai Ti, Imitation Song Ti, Pang Ti, Sima Ti and Li Shu. If you can't master the structure of Chinese characters, no matter how the strokes of Chinese characters are decorated and beautified, they are ugly. Therefore, mastering the structure of characters and writing bold characters is the key and foundation for practicing all fonts.
Fifth, to practice calligraphy, we should practice the strokes of fonts.
Many people have practiced calligraphy. Since they began to practice regular script, they have forgotten many writing rules and only remember pens. As a result, the words written are very cumbersome, like ghost symbols. I advocate practicing in bold, mastering fonts and canceling pens. The following are some common strokes and the common problems most students have when writing them:
1 o'clock, the pen is transported from the upper left to the lower right, and there is a pen transport process. Note that "points" are also long and cannot be rounded into points.
(2) Put the pen horizontally and divide it equally from left to right. The key is to be "horizontal and vertical", not high at one end and low at the other, nor wavy. The length should be controlled according to the font of the square characters, not too short or too long.
(3) vertical pen, vertical pen from top to bottom. The key is "vertical to be straight", and it can't be skewed left and right, let alone written as a vertical hook. The length should be controlled according to the font of the square characters, not too short or too long.
(4) Left, from the upper right to the lower left, no dots or horizontal left.
⑤ Folding: When writing a folding pen, the folding angle should be square, not round. Don't put the pen heavily on the corner and write it as two obtuse angles from the shoulder, but as a right angle.
The words written in this way, if written with a ballpoint pen, are small round artistic words similar to matchsticks; If you write with a pen, it is in standard bold type. Although the strokes are monotonous, they are beautiful as long as the structure is accurate. Just like squatting is the basic skill of practicing martial arts, horizontal and vertical is the basic skill of writing Chinese characters. Many people can't write well because they are uneven, vertically arranged and inaccurate in structure. If the structure is wrong, no matter how rich the strokes are, you can't write good words.
Sixth, we should master the posture and method of writing when practicing calligraphy.
1, sit up straight, shoulders should be flat, back should be straight, body and head should not be crooked, let alone low; The eyes are about one foot away from the desktop, and the chest is about three inches away from the edge of the table.
2, the pen should be straight, the nib should be straight, and it is forbidden to tilt inward (as long as the palm is flat, the nib naturally moves forward); The tip of the index finger is about an inch from the nib. If the pen is not straight or the nib is tilted inward, it is difficult to write well and it is difficult to write well. Even if you write with a pen, you should move your right hand. At the same time, the lines written have no backbone and rhythm, and the font is not generous.
3, the inclination of the pen, write big words with the pen up, the inclination of the pen is slightly larger, write small words down, and the inclination of the pen is slightly smaller. Generally, the slope should be inclined at the index finger joint, and the strokes written here are either rigid and flexible. The inclination of the pen is not suitable, and the speed of using the pen is limited, so you can't write floating and verve glyphs, so you shouldn't tilt at the "tiger's mouth".
4. Use the pen easily and use the pen freely; Hold the pen too tightly, and the written words will not be open and generous. According to the middle school lecture, in a class of 50 students, 45 students hold the pen incorrectly or the tip of the pen tilts inward, and so does the university. It is precisely for this reason that these students' handwriting is not like a hook, and the strokes are piled horizontally.
As I said before, writing is good or bad, and posture is absolutely related to writing. Just like a carpenter sawing wood, if the posture and grip of the saw are incorrect, even if the "line" is drawn straight, it will be sawed askew. This is the same as writing good words.
The above simple and effective methods about how to practice Chinese characters effectively and how to practice Chinese characters most effectively for adults are all here. We must not practice blindly to practice Chinese characters effectively. We should have correct, scientific and effective methods to practice Chinese characters, master font structure and strokes, and practice basic skills. On this basis, you can choose your favorite font to practice, and I believe you can also write a good hand. Why do many training institutions enable you to write a good hand quickly in a short time? In fact, the core is to teach you the method of font structure collocation. As long as you master it, it is very easy to write a good hand.