Under the expectations of the vast number of calligraphy art workers and the masses of the people, sun Xiaoyun, chairman of the China Book Association, finally fell on the beat of "fighting ugliness" - a few days ago, 11 associations and societies including the China Book Association jointly issued the "Proposal on Standardizing the Use of Chinese Characters" to openly resist the "ugly books" and "strange books" that deliberately deform the strokes and structures of Chinese characters in vulgar and hasty exaggerations!
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The initiative emphasizes that Chinese characters are an important carrier for inheriting Chinese civilization, the root of Chinese culture, and the most representative logo of China's excellent traditional culture. Standardizing the use of Chinese characters and expressing the beauty of Chinese characters requires the joint efforts of the whole society. It is required to consciously assume social responsibility and cultural mission, and take the standardization and beauty of the use of Chinese characters as an important standard to inherit and promote excellent traditional culture.
The initiative has a total of 6 articles, which put forward requirements from different angles, requiring "actively promoting the application of relevant national standards and industry standards", "strengthening the review and control of the use of fonts in the font library", "improving the awareness of practitioners to use Chinese characters and professional ability literacy", and "giving play to the role of mass media".
Article 4 can be said to be the biggest highlight of the "Initiative", which openly points out that "consciously resist the "ugly book" and "strange book" information type font that ignores the chinese character writing norms, writing techniques and cultural connotations and aesthetic characteristics, and deliberately deforms the strokes and structures of Chinese characters in vulgar and hasty exaggerations." Article 5 requires that "the standardized use of Chinese characters be taken as an important criterion when organizing relevant readings, quality inspections, assessments, and evaluations", so that there is a requirement to resist "ugly books" in the selection of calligraphy works.
Most netizens said that the "Initiative" put forward by 11 associations and societies is very timely, and we very much agree with the China Book Association's measures to combat "ugly books" and "strange books", and believe that the treatment of diseases should find pathogens, only by finding the lesions can we cut off the spread of the disease, and resolutely resist the so-called calligraphy in the form of personal performance art, because it violates the law of writing.
Some netizens said that the origin of calligraphy is a written record, the text is the definition of the life of all natural things, prompting the development of human civilization and human culture, art is only a form of expression of calligraphy expression, if calligraphy does not even have the body, what else to talk about art? Therefore, we support the China Book Association in cracking down on "ugly books" and "strange books", and dare to show the sword to "ugly books" and "strange books"!
However, some netizens also proposed that we are very supportive of cracking down on "ugly books" and "strange books", but what kind of calligraphy is "ugly books" and "strange books" should be strictly defined first. In fact, a hundred schools of calligraphy are contended, allowing the existence of various styles of calligraphy, but we should adhere to the pure inheritance of mainstream calligraphy and popularization, and we cannot go astray and go evil, let alone kill with a stick!