Yan Zhenqing is 76 years old, Liu Gongquan is 87 years old, 84 years old, 89 years old, Liang is 92 years old, Sun Mofo 100 years old, Shu Tong is 93 years old,10 years old, 94 years old. Why do calligraphers live long? Because calligraphy is an art and a way of keeping in good health. Mainly reflected in the following aspects.
Traditional Chinese medicine regulates emotions: "People have five internal organs and five qi, which leads to emotions, sadness and fear." Too much emotion will make the dirty qi out of balance. Calligraphy can adjust the mentality and make the mood stable. When you are ecstatic, you can concentrate on reading. When you are furious, you can be depressed and calm; When you are sad, you can dispel the depression in your chest and feel happy; When thinking, you can transfer emotions and express emotions; When you are frightened, you can calm down.
It can be seen that calligraphy can regulate emotions and promote people's physical and mental health. It can be said that calligraphy is a non-drug therapy to prevent and treat psychosomatic diseases. Cultivate sentiment China culture has a long history. Although Cang Xie's writing in ancient books is legendary, the form of words and calligraphy reflects the artistic conception and spiritual and emotional sustenance of the creator. Tang Yu Shinan's book "Essentials" said: "The nature of Yin and Yang moves, and everything takes shape.
The form of seal script is quaint and simple; Lishu is round and beautiful; Regular script is rigorous and clear; Running script is free and easy, clever; Cursive script is elegant and unrestrained. Although the styles are different, they all show rhythmic natural beauty. As Huai Nan Zi said, "Beautiful women have different bodies, and beautiful women have different faces, which are pleasing to the eye", which makes people feel beautiful. Words come from the heart, books come from the heart. Practicing calligraphy can undoubtedly cultivate people's sentiment, give life positive vitality, and sublimate people's art, vision, mind, cultivation and temperament.
The pleasure you get when you write, the joy you get when you create, the reward you get when your work is published or exhibited, and all kinds of good information will stimulate your brain to secrete benign substances, which is of great help to improve immunity and disease resistance. The cultivation of form and spirit in calligraphy embodies the unity of form and spirit. The shape is the temple of God. The maintenance of the body lies in exercise, which cultivates the body. When writing, refer to the posture of solid, empty palm and flat wrist; When writing, the wrist and elbow are hung up and constantly bent back and forth, left and right, up and down, which not only regulates the muscles and nerves of the arm, but also makes the fingers, arms, shoulders, back, waist and legs move, which is soothing but not violent; It's the mean, not the extraordinary.
This kind of moderate movement embodied in calligraphy runs through the guiding connotation of "invigorating bones and muscles and moving limbs" and "God is the master of shape". Cao Tingdong, a health care practitioner in the Qing Dynasty, advocated "quietness is the first thing". Quiet to nourish the heart, nourishing the heart is to cultivate the shape. When learning calligraphy, people are absorbed. People's thoughts are pure and quiet, and their hearts are not disturbed by external things. Faced with the trend of pursuing fame and wealth, they are willing to be poor and stick to loneliness, so as to balance yin and yang in the body, ensure the stability of the internal environment of the human body, delay the cell division cycle, minimize the changes of qi and blood in their bodies, and have relatively slow metabolism.
Calligraphy can nourish the mind, cultivate the nature and practice the mind, effectively reduce or avoid the interference of psychology on physiology, and make all other distractions forget. This investment is as effective as practicing Qigong and playing Tai Ji Chuan. Practice calligraphy, cultivate body and mind, make calligraphers integrate body and mind, integrate body and mind, and live a long and healthy life.