Warning: Young people, don't use calligraphy as a rice bowl!

Warning: Young people, don't use calligraphy as a rice bowl!

Although I practice calligraphy a lot of times and often write critical articles about calligraphy, I have never thought that I am a person who mixes in the calligraphy industry, and even many times, I will tell my friends that I have never mixed with the calligraphy and painting circle, because this circle is not suitable for me at present.

Practicing calligraphy is just my hobby, and writing calligraphy reviews is like writing prose, just wanting to talk. Calligraphy may be just another form of speech. Recently, I found that there is a group of young people, with dreams, often mixed in the circle of calligraphy and painting, the sacred face of calligraphy, everyone used to call them "young calligraphy generation"; a very interesting group. I haven't found the feeling of "long-term speech" and "tireless teaching" for a long time. Today, when I am idle, I will talk to the "young calligraphy generation" and take a dazzling title: warning all young people who practice calligraphy.

First, don't take the encouragement of others seriously

Young people who practice calligraphy like to be encouraged by others, especially those who take the encouragement of some famous calligraphers seriously. In the team of calligraphers, there will always be a very small number of people who can really make a difference, and the young calligraphers who can be encouraged by others are indeed the majority.

The late Mr. Qi Gong, the last chinese calligrapher, told of the past. There was a rural boy surnamed Zhang who came to visit him with his own work, hoping to get guidance. He carefully read the study work, although he felt very general, but in order not to dampen the young man's enthusiasm for writing, he still politely said a few words of praise and encouragement. More than ten years later, Mr. Qi Gong learned that this young man was nearly 40 years old, still engaged in calligraphy, did not work, did not work, and was poor. Apart from a few tofu chunks in the local newspaper, nothing has been accomplished. His family persuaded him to give up, but he said, Mr. Qi Gong said that I wrote well, as long as I persisted, I would definitely become a calligrapher.

Mr. Qi Gong's original few polite words actually became his spiritual support. Mr. Qi Gong was very remorseful about this: "If I had been ruthless and bluntly said that his calligraphy was very ordinary, perhaps he would not have indulged in calligraphy and stubbornly insisted on being a calligrapher." ”

Chinese have always liked their own industry as lively as possible, plus do not like to go straight, often like to encourage and praise beginners. If you want to take the polite encouragement of others to you seriously, you can only delay yourself.

Some calligraphers, or older calligraphers, are also warned not to unscrupulously encourage younger calligraphers. It seems to be a help and support for them, but it is actually harmful.

Second, don't believe that hard work will lead to success

We are often taught that hard work will lead to success. Some young people will waste sleep and forget to practice those printed posters bought from the Internet, thinking that the work will be natural. In fact, no matter what industry people are successful, it is talent, not hard work, that plays a decisive role in them.

You would say that Edison said, "Genius is ninety-nine sweats plus one inspiration."

Wrong! Edison's original words were: "Genius is ninety-nine sweats and one inspiration, but this inspiration is precisely the most important." "Why do we only know the first half of the sentence?" When it was first translated, after review by the superiors, it was found that it did not meet the political needs and deleted the second half of the sentence. As a result, half a sentence of Edison's famous quote, which had the exact opposite meaning, was quickly circulated among young people after it was published in China. We are often encouraged by others to run like mad dogs, exhausted and never reach the destination.

Don't believe those, if hard work can succeed, our ancestors who have worked hard for generations have long lived a happy life. So, don't practice calligraphy diligently. Becoming a well-known calligrapher can be solved by hard work, and people have already gone to the labor market to hire migrant workers.

Don't believe that calligraphers learn

In order to realize their calligraphy dreams, some young people who love calligraphy go to study calligraphy classes that are ridiculous, and even go to some professional art academies and art colleges to study calligraphy. In fact, going to these places is not necessarily suitable for being a calligrapher, but if you go to these things, you basically can't become a calligrapher. Why? If you learn calligraphy, you will have a lot of preconceived notions.

The last thing I like to see is the calligraphy works written by graduates of professional art colleges, which are unconsciously stereotyped. The structure is perfect, and the pen and ink are adjusted very evenly, but many of them are outside the gold and jade, and they are defeated. There is form, there is no soul.

You see, how many of the calligraphy masters in the current calligraphy circle have graduated from professional art colleges? Did Qi Gong graduate from calligraphy? Did Lin Sanzhi learn calligraphy? At the end of the day, calligraphy is just a tool, just a carrier. And the thought and connotation of calligraphic works is the soul. No matter how exquisite the lines are, what is the use of being fancy?

Fourth, do not be bent on joining the association

Any association of calligraphers should, by its very nature, be a mass organization of the people. But no matter how you look at it, it's like an administrative body. The leadership of the China Book Association has ranks, and the professional calligraphers in it have salaries and benefits; the funds are not sponsored by anyone, but by taxpayers. Under this system, some so-called professional calligraphers are almost all adopted.

Some people who posted some blowing and clapping newsletters on the tabloids and so on, mixed with the title of young calligrapher, were at best amateurs, and they also joined the Calligraphers Association. You are obsessed with drilling into that pile, and it is strange that you can write good works.

It is a bit too humiliating to enter the Zhongshu Association, after all, there are many calligraphers in the Zhongshu Association who do not eat white food. But if you think of entering the Zhongshu Association as an honorable thing, your taste is really not very high. If you go to that treatment, it is even more unnecessary. You think, if you're a true calligrapher, you can completely support yourself by writing calligraphy. If not, then what else can you do as a calligrapher?

Don't think that if you enter the Chinese Calligraphy Association, you are a calligrapher. A lot of the so-called calligraphers in the China Book Association are really unbearable to look at, which is not bad. Others have no one but themselves who remember what he wrote. If someone reads something, he is a calligrapher.

Fifth, do not find a relationship to publish works

If it comes to job titles, salaries, finding relationships to send calligraphy works can be understood. No one is a god, and they have to support their families. But as a calligraphy work, if it is to find a relationship to send it, it can only mean that you are not this piece of material at all. I suggest you don't do this sooner. If one editor loses his eyes, not all editors will lose their eyes. Really good works are accidentally thrown on the ground and will be taken and distributed. Otherwise, you're just stuffing a letterbox in the national press and it's useless.

You look at those officials "calligraphers", the relationship is hard, right? Someone gives it a seal, someone sells it. What is the significance of all the works? Retire today, and tomorrow your work will be sold to a scrap collection station.

Don't dream of overnight fame

Many people have calligraphy dreams when they are young, which is not a bad thing. You write as a hobby, as you like, and it is a noble interest. But there must be some result, even to the extent of utilitarianism, that is, there is no right thing.

How many social storms have you endured? How deeply do you know about society? Do you have a personality that stands out? Do you have the ability to think independently? Creative? Do you have a unique style? Have you been able to read more than 10,000 volumes? Of course, don't tell me how many calligraphy books you read to write good calligraphy, that makes almost no sense.

Most people have similar talents and visions. If you go around, you can't get around the routines of the works of calligraphers such as the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, and the Yuan Ming Dynasty. If you know calligraphy, how many people have achieved calligraphy in recent decades? I tell you, Erwang calligraphy is the soul of calligraphy, and those who do not become climates should not waste their time and waste time. If that's the case, you've published a few pages in the Calligraphy Newspaper, what can you do? What if you just published a book collection? There are so many similar things that how many people will go to see? You're still you, nothing has changed.

The last thing I want to say is, don't dream of being a calligrapher. When you don't want to, you may become a calligrapher if you don't pay attention. Thousands of years of history have proved that the real calligrapher has never come to a profession that regards calligraphy as a profession, and all those who regard calligraphy as a profession have become calligraphers.

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