"How can you practice a good word?" One day my daughter asked me half jokingly and half seriously.
In this era of good words and ruined by computers, you can occasionally inadvertently see a lot of highly educated people, that a stroke of the east and west, can not get the hand of the word, really not as good as the level of a primary school student.
It is rare to think of this question, but she is still a student after all, and writing is still a daily essential lesson, and it is not surprising to have this question.
But my feeling at the time was that this question was too numerous to answer, but looking at her, eager eyes, I could not help but satisfy her curiosity.
After a little thought, the answer is as follows: "If you want to practice words well, first of all, you must have your own opinions and understandings on learning words, you said that those who practice words, from ancient times to the present, there are not many, but there are not many people who really make a name for themselves, the main reason is that most people are used to running behind other people's butts, drawing scoops according to gourds, and not having their own style." ”
In order to prove the correctness of this view, several well-known examples popped into my mind.
The first thing that comes to mind is that Wang Xizhi, the author of the "Lanting Collection", who is known as the "first line of books under the heavens", "Book Saint".
It is said that in this article alone, there is only one "zigzag" word in it, and the writer has adopted more than twenty kinds of writing, each with a different posture and beauty.
The second thing that comes to mind is the "upside down madness". "Upside down" is Zhang Xu, who is said to have realized the calligraphy because he saw the sword dance of Gongsun Daniang, and was revered by later generations as a "grass saint".
"Crazy Su" refers to the monk Huai Su, who also thought of the magic of cursive writing from the change of floating clouds.
There is also the "thin gold body" of the Song Dynasty, which is a kind of thin and tall book body, without considerable talent and understanding, you can't get such a work, which is not something that ordinary people can hope to back.
There is also the Qing Dynasty Zheng Banqiao, known as the "six-and-a-half-minute book" of the chaotic stone paving street, which is mixed into the line of letters in the form of lishu brushwork, creating this kind of font between the kai and li, and more than the kai.
These are very individual and characteristic calligraphy arts, which have a great influence on future generations.
Looking at the little girl who seemed to have realized something, I hope that she really listened to it, and hoped to be able to help her future learning.
In fact, I have been so wordy that I want to illustrate a problem, and everything is self-evident.
Especially in terms of artistic accomplishment, the emphasis is on the creation of the teacher, the touch of the bypass nature is like a fish in the water, standing high must look far away, not only art, but also many other things.