Mr. Deng Sanmu, a modern calligrapher, summarized five situations that need to be paid attention to in the process of learning calligraphy in view of the problems encountered by beginners in the process of learning calligraphy.
In the process of beginners' "posting", Mr. Deng Sanmu pointed out that the following situations must be paid attention to, because these situations are obstacles on the way forward for word practitioners, and they may appear at any time, even repeated many times, and people who are not strong enough in will can easily bow their heads in front of these obstacles and cause their previous achievements to be abandoned, so I put forward here in particular, so that everyone can prepare their minds in advance.
One situation is "seeing different thoughts". Often some people learn European characters, when they learn some, they feel that there is not quite right, so they change to learn Yanzi, and after a few hours of Yanzi, they will learn the willow characters of politics, so they change and change, they do not have a certain opinion, and the result is bound to be. There are also some people who have just learned European characters, see Yan Liu's character posts, and think that Yan Liu is better than European characters, so they throw away the European characters and change from Yan Liu, so that practicing words will never be good. Pro post must be concentrated, not half-hearted, selected a certain post, you must practice in one breath, not to succeed more than once, this is also one of the tricks of practicing words.
One case is the "assembly line" style of practicing words. Suppose that this book is ten pages long, the first page is approached today, the second page is approached tomorrow, the third page is approached the day after tomorrow, and it will be finished in ten days, and then start from the beginning. Such a post is also undesirable. Because changing a page every day is equivalent to changing a number of new words every day, it is difficult to remember all the words in the post after ten days. Therefore, you must be on the same page every day, for ten days and eight days, when you are ripe, you can change a page, if you have a certain word or a few words that are not well written, you have to put it forward to write specifically, and then replace it until you feel satisfied, otherwise, it will take time and have no effect.
Another case is "bizarre". There is a kind of person who knows that he has never worked writing, and he is empty-eyed, and he criticizes the words written by others for this is not good, that is, when choosing a word post, he also feels that this is not good, that is, the post is tacky, all the neat and regular posts are not eye-catching, and they specialize in selecting cold, damaged, and strangely shaped inscriptions, as a model for study, and want to train a hand of extraordinary words from here. This kind of person, who refuses to start with a formal foundation, but only practices words from the perspective of a strange motive, needless to say, there will never be a good result.
Another situation is "one exposure and ten cold". Some people practice words like making a cold and fever disease, writing hundreds of words a day when they are happy, and half a month when they are unhappy, so that "three days of fishing, two days of drying nets" style of practicing words will certainly not be beneficial. If you can insist on practicing every day, although the amount of writing depends on the time, the long flow of fine water is better than a cold exposure.
The fifth situation is "retreating from difficulties". When you start posting, the first few days will of course not look like or not like, and then the day will get better and better, the more you write, the more you look like, you see the continuous progress, of course, your heart is happy, so the more you are more energetic. After a period, gradually feel that the more you write, the less it is; more and more progress is not seen, sometimes compared with the words written in the early days, but feel that it is more regressive than before, many people are pessimistic and disappointed because of this phenomenon, first self-pity, and then simply change a post, and some even stop practicing, if so, some of the efforts made in the past will be in vain.
To know that words are used by hand and eye, the hand only insists on writing with a pen, the writing is good or not, the progress is not progressed, the eyes must observe the evaluation, and the progress is always faster than the hand, and the progress under the hand is always unable to keep up with the eyes. As the saying goes, "the eye is high and the hand is low", which is the truth. The more pro-post, the more similar it is, indicating that the hand and the eye are gradually close to the words in the post; the more pro-lined the later, the more unlikely, the eye has been able to further see some of the features in the post, and some shortcomings in its own writing class, and the hand is not skilled enough, can not grasp the characteristics of the post, can not overcome its own shortcomings, although sincerely write according to the post, and the written words are always different from the words in the post.
This is the natural law of physiological phenomena, can not be forced, do not have to be discouraged, when encountering this situation, as long as you can grit your teeth, whether it is like it or not, progress is not progress, adhere to hard practice, through this pass, will be bitter. However, this situation, after some time, will reappear at a certain stage, so it is necessary to establish a tenacious determination and confidence in order to pass through one by one.
The five types of situations cited are more common in the general practice process, especially the fifth situation of "retreating from difficulties", especially the obstacles that every person who practices words will inevitably encounter, and it is even more necessary to pay attention to them. According to my personal experience, when I encounter more and more in the middle of the way, the more I am not like, the more I write, the more unhappy I am, simply put away the pen and paper, do not want to write, leave it for ten days and half a month, and then continue to write, then I will feel that there is a new realm presented in front of you, so that you can restore your past interest. In this way, every time you go through it, you can push your eye technique one step forward, which is a very effective method, so you may wish to try it.