This is the consensus of many people who study calligraphy and painting.
People who write books express themselves and distract themselves.
Express the qi in your chest and the depression in your heart.
Therefore, every painter can live a disease-free life.
"Life comes from pens", and practicing painting and calligraphy is a sport in itself.
The art of calligraphy and painting can not only give people beautiful enjoyment, but also be an effective health care method. The research conclusions of medical experts show that painters and calligraphers rank first among 20 occupations that can make people live longer.
From the Han Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, the average life expectancy of famous calligraphers was about 80 years in this era when the average life expectancy of human beings was 25 to 40 years old. For example, Liu Gongquan was 87 years old, Ou Yangxun was 84 years old and Yu Shinan was 80 years old. Yang Weizhen is 74 years old, 89 years old, Liang is 92 years old, Weng Tonghe is 85 years old and He is 74 years old. ...
From the late Qing Dynasty to the founding of New China, the average age of human beings was 40 to 62, and the average life expectancy of famous calligraphers was 88 years. In modern times, the average life expectancy of famous painters and painters has exceeded 90 years. For example, Qi Baishi, Huang, He Xiangning and Zhang all lived to be over 90 years old, and Sun Moruo even reached the age of 100.
"Wash brush tone ink four loose, material glyph thinking coagulation. Full of holographic motion is fascinating. "
The so-called "four-body relaxation" is the first stage of painting and calligraphy. At this stage, the whole body's qi and blood meridians are dredged through preparatory actions such as washing pens and adjusting ink.
"Anticipating the font and concentrating" is the second stage of calligraphy and painting health preservation. This requires concentration and adjustment of consciousness to the best state. Only in this way can we enter the thinking in images and feel relaxed and energetic.
Wang Xizhi said: "concentrate on meditation, predict the font size, feel the vibration directly, dredge the tendons and pulse, and write first and then write." This requires concentration and adjustment of consciousness to the best state. Only in this way can we enter the thinking in images and feel relaxed and energetic.
"Full attention to holographic movement" is the third stage of calligraphy and painting health preservation. The key to running God and Qi through the whole process of painting and calligraphy creation is to make God drive the pen and Qi to move in the hand, thus driving the whole body's activities. This stage can be said to be the most substantial stage of calligraphy and painting movement.
"Pleasant to the eye and endless joy" is the fourth stage of calligraphy and painting health preservation. Good works can be pleasing to the eye and pleasing to the eye. Learning calligraphy and painting, you can get satisfaction from your own creation, and your mood will be detached and purified, so as to achieve a comfortable mood.
Specifically, practicing different calligraphy and painting can also play different health care roles:
Regular script: the font is correct and neat, the structure is tight, and the brushwork is rigorous and steady. It is suitable for psychological adjustment of patients with anxiety, nervousness, phobia, coronary heart disease, hypertension and arrhythmia.
Zhou Xinglian's My Opinion on Linchi said: "Writing books can nourish qi and help qi. If you sit still, writing regular script is only a few crosses or hundreds of words, and you will feel very arrogant and calm. "
Running script: the font is flowing, which is very helpful to express spirituality and cultivate people's flexibility. Suitable for patients with depression, strong inferiority complex, hand and foot paralysis and cerebral thrombosis.
Cursive script: the posture is indulgent, the strokes are continuous, the clutch gathers and disperses, and the ups and downs are like lightning, in one go. It is especially suitable for depressed people to express their feelings, but not for anxious people to practice.
Lishu: The style of the book is calm, changeable and rich in images, which helps to adjust restless, stubborn and extreme emotions.
Seal script: solemn and steady, slow in writing, especially suitable for those who are anxious, nervous and restless to practice, which is conducive to regulating psychology and is suitable for adjuvant treatment of patients with coronary heart disease and hypertension.
Shoujinyi: Shoujinyi was created by Song Huizong Zhao Ji, which is an original creation in the history of calligraphy. As Tao's "Book History Society" in Ming Dynasty praised: "The brushwork strives for strength, and the intention is natural, so it must be sought."
Zhang Daqian's plum blossom picture
Painting plum blossoms, especially when the cold winter is coming to an end and early spring is coming, is more beneficial to the body and mind. The orientation of plum belongs to the east, the five elements belong to wood, and the five internal organs belong to liver. The liver likes to jump and is anxious, so the ancients said that it is appropriate to take off the towel in spring.
Painting plum blossoms often can rejuvenate children, dispel the cold and heat of heart and liver stagnation in winter, regulate the internal organs and relieve congestion and boredom.
Zhang Daqian's Orchid Map
Painting orchids, orchids belong to fire, the five internal organs belong to the heart, and they are happy, so people call them "like painting orchids". Painting orchids can make people feel relaxed, elegant and romantic, calm, refreshed and stronger in their later years.
Ke Jiusi's "Atlas of Zhu Mo"
Painting bamboo, bamboo belongs to wood, the orientation belongs to the east, the five internal organs belong to the liver, the dirty organs belong to the gallbladder, and the emotions are anger. Therefore, the traditional painting circle is called "painting bamboo with anger". When you encounter troubles, you can write the spirit of painting bamboo, eliminate the qi in your chest, nourish your liver and protect your dirty. People who often paint bamboo, evil spirits are not easy to invade the liver and the viscera are unobstructed.
Xu Wei's "Chrysanthemum Stone Map"
Painting chrysanthemums, especially for the elderly, can nourish the heart. Chrysanthemum belongs to the west, gold, autumn wind and early frost, but the yellow bow is full of flowers, and Ao Shuang is in the east. It can help people advance with healthy body and indomitable spirit.
Weng Fanggang's "Mosongtu" Part
If you draw loosely, you can get the righteousness in your heart. The loose direction belongs to the middle, the five elements belong to the soil, the viscera belongs to the spleen, and the fu belongs to the stomach. Those who often paint pine trees can get the heart of "hundred rivers flowing into the sea" and live a long life.
Whether it is beautiful scenery or beautiful spring with flowers and birds, the mood is always very pleasant, which will stimulate the brain, secrete exciting hormones and promote the orderly circulation of the cardiovascular system, so the painter's body is always in a well-balanced state when creating. This is an important reason why many painters and painting lovers are still healthy and progressive in their later years.
Specifically, the health-preserving efficacy of calligraphy and painting can be divided into intangible "static work" and tangible "dynamic work".
Practicing calligraphy and painting requires dedication, single-mindedness, eliminating distractions, breathing steadily, staying in the abdomen, and writing your feelings on paper with a soft brush, which is a kind of qigong in itself.
When practicing calligraphy and painting, one's mind is highly concentrated, and one can even reach the state of forgetting oneself. Blend your mood and thoughts into the artistic conception of words and figures, turn a blind eye and turn a deaf ear to unpleasant things that happen in front of you or around you, so as to enter a relaxed and comfortable state, without delusions and troubles, and enjoy your spirit, which is beneficial to your physical and mental health. If we can persevere, we can achieve a state of concentration, openness and physical and mental pleasure.
According to the meridian theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the supporting point Zusanli can be moved by waving the pen tube. Our commonly used five-finger writing method can not only write vigorous and powerful words, but also harmonize qi and blood, move joints, balance yin and yang, replenish the body and promote vitality through finger movements.
At the same time, writing and painting have mental health care functions that cannot be ignored. Emperor Taizong's Calligraphy Tactics said: "When a husband wants to study, when he listens, he will never worry. If the heart is healthy and harmonious, it will be wonderful; If the heart is not right, the words will be crooked; If the ambition is not harmonious, the book will be subverted ... ""Happiness is appropriate for harmony, anger is rough for danger, and sadness is depressed for convergence. " Different mental states will affect people in different ways, and the written words and paintings are different.
Careful consideration and careful production often make the painter spend a lot of energy and bring slight fatigue. In fact, when people's physical or mental fatigue is light, the body happens to be in the most active state.
Calligraphy and painting is a dynamic and static process. "When you sit up and write a book, your limbs are strong, but the greater your strength, the lighter your pen cover." It's like playing a set of Tai Ji Chuan that combines rigidity with softness and is moderately elastic, so that people can stretch their bodies, relax their muscles and promote blood circulation.
The window is bright and clean, elegant and comfortable, decorated with three or two pots of flowers, dipped in ink, and natural and unrestrained. It is really a "spring breeze on paper". He Qiaoban's Heart Method says: "A calligrapher can express his ability to disperse, express his chest and distract his heart, so every calligrapher can live a disease-free life."