First, practicing calligraphy can improve students' aesthetic quality.
Aesthetic accomplishment is an important content of a person's humanistic quality. Mr. Zong Baihua, a famous aesthete, said that calligraphy is "like Chinese painting, more like music, like dancing, like beautiful architecture." The process of practicing, creating and appreciating calligraphy works is the process of perceiving beauty, creating beauty and brewing beauty. Therefore, developing calligraphy art education is a good way and method to cultivate students' aesthetic ability.
Second, practicing calligraphy can cultivate students' good behavior habits.
To learn calligraphy, we should start with one stroke and one painting, and have rules and regulations. For example, we pay great attention to starting, writing and collecting, just like doing things. Beginning is like the beginning of doing things, writing is like the process of doing things, and collecting is like the end of doing things. By practicing calligraphy, you can exercise a person's serious and calm character, and finish what you started. Day after day, students' good behavior habits will be formed unconsciously.
Third, practicing calligraphy can strengthen the body.
Calligraphy is not only an art, but also a way of keeping in good health. Calligraphy can adjust mood and cultivate sentiment. Happiness hurts the liver, anger hurts the lungs, fear hurts the kidneys, and thinking hurts the spleen. When practicing, creating and appreciating calligraphy, one's mentality is stable, static, cultivated and peaceful, which is what we usually call "psychological balance", thus promoting one's physical and mental health. "Life comes from pen" refers to this truth.
Fourthly, practicing calligraphy can improve students' comprehensive quality.
Calligraphy works seem simple, but it is not easy to write well. In addition to the internal skills of calligraphy (such as brushwork, ink painting, composition, etc. ), you need to practice and learn "external work". "Extra-word Kung Fu" is very important to calligraphy. If you want to achieve something in calligraphy, you need words outside the words and books outside the books. "Writing outside words" means learning from "sister art", such as drawing white from painting, understanding rhythm and rhythm from music, and looking for artistic conception from poetry. Art is interlinked, and "sister art" can often inspire calligraphy creation. In the process of pursuing the improvement of calligraphy art, people's comprehensive quality has also been developed.
In addition, calligraphy is also very practical. The recruitment form and resume of the recruitment unit are all required to be handwritten, so writing is also an important part of the exam. Last year, a talent market in Guangzhou needed to recruit 3,000 graduates and 30,000 people signed up. The first content is "filling out forms and writing resumes", and only by writing, 1/3 was eliminated.
In a word, carrying out calligraphy art education activities among students is conducive to the all-round development of students' comprehensive quality and the in-depth development of quality education.
Adults, primary school students and some young people whose fonts have not been finalized are generally easier to practice pen writing than adults. This is because they are easy to accept new fonts. Once they have the right guidance, the right font, the right method and a persistent attitude, they can achieve good results in a short time. It is not so easy for adults whose fonts have been finalized to practice pen writing well. Because we didn't pay attention to the quality of words before, some ugly or even misspelled words have become a bad habit, which is difficult to correct. They want to practice calligraphy now, but they often just tinker with the existing fonts and choose fonts similar to their own. This is often the case, the good ones are not learned, and the bad ones are not lost, so that the more you practice, the uglier you get.
So how do you get these people to practice calligraphy? My experience is: first of all, let them completely forget the previous fonts, start from scratch, and start practicing from the most basic point strokes. Then practice the structure. For pen words, the most important thing is structure, and the quality of structure directly affects the beauty of words. Therefore, it is most important to write a good pen and ink structure. But now there is a difficult problem to solve, that is, it is difficult to forget the previous fonts, and old habits are often brought into new fonts during the posting process. To change this situation, the best way is to choose block letters different from your previous fonts for copying. Practice orthography in block letters. Practice for a week or two or more, and you can achieve orthomorphism. When the shape is straight, I also want to choose a running script copybook that is completely different from my original font and I think it is very beautiful to copy. If the font was stiff before, choose a bold copybook; If the font is sloppy, choose a rigorous copybook; If the font is plain, choose smart copybook; If the font is soft and smooth, choose a solid copybook; If the font is bloated, choose exquisite copybooks ... If you practice for two to three months, you can learn new fonts. I often encounter such problems in my study. I made rapid progress in the first few days, but after a while I felt that my writing was getting worse and worse. This is a normal phenomenon. At this time, as long as you just hold your horses and keep practicing, after a period of hard work, you can get out of the predicament and get on the right track. The purpose of copying is to forget the previous words, remember the words in the copybook and use them. After that, we should sort out the relationship between words and lines, which is the so-called composition. For people who just want to write beautifully, but don't want to make achievements in this respect, it is enough to do the above. This is the experience I got in my study, and I also introduced these experiences to others, and the effect is good.
You can't achieve something in the art of pen calligraphy overnight. We should not only learn from the use, structure, composition and charm of brush calligraphy, but also give full play to the inherent characteristics of the pen. Only in this way can the art of pen calligraphy flourish and make her have strong and permanent vitality. Otherwise, pen calligraphy can only be a vassal of brush calligraphy, and it will not develop and innovate, and it will not have strong and permanent vitality.
Read more: that is, read more textbooks and copybooks, which can deepen the understanding of the basic characteristics of fonts.
Think more: to do anything well, you should think more, and you should also think more when practicing calligraphy. You must master the general rules and use them accurately.
Multi-refining: a hundred refining into steel. Rushing for success is a bad thing. We don't have to insist on how many hours we practice every day. As long as you insist on practicing for dozens of minutes every day, sometimes you may not be able to do it, but you must never have a long interval between "one summer and ten winters". This will affect the effect of practicing calligraphy. In short, we must adhere to the requirements of teaching materials.
Practice and write copybooks repeatedly.
Multi-use: applying what you have learned is the ultimate goal of practicing calligraphy. In other words, it is a difficult process to use the learned writing methods when writing letters, taking exams and taking notes. Be patient and gradually correct the incorrect writing habits before. Many students wrote that temporary writing is ok, but they can't leave the copybook.
Well, this is normal, which means that you are not skilled and the temperature hasn't come up yet. Patience is most needed at this time. Keep coming, again and again. When the words in textbooks and copybooks are memorized, you are not afraid to take off the posts.
The first step is to read the post. We all know the pronunciation of the posted Chinese characters, so we don't need to read them any more. Read what? Read fonts, read structures, read strokes, and analyze the relationship between stroke characteristics and strokes of Chinese characters. For example, when we read the word "Zhong" in bold, we should read that a vertical line of the word "Zhong" passes through the middle of the word "Kou", and the horizontal length of the word "Kou" is slightly flat. The long vertical line in the middle is divided into two sections with the same length by the lower horizontal line of the word "Kou", and the upper horizontal line of the word "Kou" is divided into two sections with the same length. This is an interpretation of glyphs and structures. Different fonts and strokes have different characteristics. The changes of strokes in hard pen calligraphy are not obvious, and it is not easy for middle school students to master them, so I won't say much here.
The second step is tracking. "Tracing" refers to tracing red, that is, beginners use a blue pen to trace the printed red copybook along the handwriting. "Imitation" refers to copying the post, that is, covering the model words with transparent paper and writing them one by one along the shadow of the words on the paper, which is also called writing imitation.
The third step is to post. It means to put the copybook aside and watch the copybook written on the homework paper word by word. This method is helpful to master the brushwork and meaning of Chinese characters, but it is not easy to master the structure of Chinese characters.
The fourth step is to recite the post. Refers to the method of removing the copybook on the basis of copying, recalling the font on the copybook according to your own memory and writing it on the homework paper. This is a key step in practicing calligraphy. Only by carefully examining the words you read and write, can you write accurately. When writing, if you can see the exact font of the Chinese characters to be written on white paper, so that "the words are on the paper and the words are on the chest", it is not a problem to write a good hand.
The fifth step is creation. On the basis of mastering the writing method of the words on the copybook, I learned the writing method of the words not on the copybook by analogy. According to the needs of self-expression, writing a paragraph with center, content and self-contained system is creation.
If you can write a word close to copybook in your daily study and life, the purpose of calligraphy practice for middle school students will be achieved.