On Sunday, I went to the City Youth Palace to run errands, the banner of the "Happy Chinese Character Writing Contest" came into view, and when I passed a classroom, the singer Xie Xiaodong's song "China Baby" came from my ear. The most favorite words to write are the square characters taught by Mr. Wang, and the horizontal and vertical upright people are also like it..." I simply stopped and watched.
At the scene of the competition, the students were serious, the judges and parents concentrated, and the arena was a peaceful atmosphere. Look at that! The students held the pen correctly, sat in a correct posture, and the works they wrote were horizontal and vertical, the strokes were smooth, beautiful and generous, and the scene was full of ink aroma.
Seeing this rare and beautiful landscape, I sighed: It is time to write Chinese characters now. In the information age, computers are everywhere, and they are really overwhelming: computers for drafting documents, computers for drafting contracts, computers for preparing lessons, computers for doing homework, computers for writing articles, computers for trading... Using a computer is fast, standardized, accurate, and convenient, which is the progress of the times and the trend of history, which is irreversible.
However, in our country, which has a history of civilization for thousands of years, using a pen to write the square characters that have been handed down to this day is our national essence and our heirloom, and we must not forget it or lose it!
Recently, the author went to the street neighborhood committee to go through a formality, and in the residents' service center, there are still many residents who come to do things. I walked to a square table, and a young man was getting ready to go through the formalities, and when the staff took out a signature pen and a form with four pieces of paper for the young man to write with a pen, the young man looked sad and said that he would not write with a pen, and that it was okay to use the computer. In such a situation, I volunteered to help this young man solve his urgent needs.
When I finished writing these four pages of material, I was really tired, my hands were sore and my neck was crooked, and this young man was very grateful, and I could do what I could for others, and I was extremely relieved. When the young man handed over the materials I helped fill in, the staff of the neighborhood committee said, "Uncle, your handwriting is really beautiful." The author said that my writing is general, that is, I insist on writing with a pen for many years, even if I use a computer to write, I also use a creative pen to write, so the other party has not forgotten the block words.
In the conversation with this staff member, it can be seen that many people are now reluctant to write, especially the younger generation, who are used to using computers and do not want to use their pens, and some even forget to write with their pens and cannot write. The purpose of holding a chinese character writing contest for students is to awaken people's unique feelings of writing Chinese square characters by hand and skimming them one by one.
Because computers are so popular, there are many people who are "lazy" and don't want to write on paper with a pen, and my neighborhood Old Li is an old postal man, who once said that the number of letters in the post office is now less than one-tenth of what it was ten years ago. The rapid development of the communication industry, the rapid development of communication tools, now what is going on between each other, make a phone call, send a text message or a WeChat to solve, so good is good, but always feel the lack of some traditional cultural atmosphere, the letter written with a pen is different, has its simple unique charm.
A young man who has been working in the frontier for a long time usually contacts his family in Zaozhuang by telephone and text message, and this year's Mid-Autumn Festival, when he received a two-page letter written by his father with a pen, he burst into tears. It can be seen how deep the cultural connotation and collection value of this written text are, or it is favored by contemporary people.
Commonly used pen writing, can cultivate sentiment, fitness and brain, the benefits are many. Qin Yi, a famous actor who played Fang Lin's sister-in-law in the movie "Railway Guerrilla" filmed in Zaozhuang, Shandong Province in the 1950s, is nearly 100 years old, and has always insisted on writing square characters on white paper with a pen every day, never stopping and persevering, so now she is still sharp in her hands and feet, and her thinking is agile, which also has a certain relationship with her long-term insistence on writing with a pen.
Therefore, the author and the comrades-in-arms and friends sincerely appeal that while we use advanced computers and other digital products to deal with the affairs of words, we must also continue to use the pen to personally write square characters, children, students, young people and the elderly should insist on writing square characters with pens, the more they write, the more familiar they are, the better they write, so that our country is beautiful, let our square characters carry forward and flourish, and be evergreen! One stroke after another, the magic pen is full of flowers, writing life.
November 2, 2021
(Picture from the network to thank the original author)
Author: Dai Zhongqun
Editor: Yan Jingping,"White Wave Love"