Calligraphy has a wide range of practicality. The most basic activity of learning calligraphy is writing, and the primary purpose of writing is to remember things and exchange feelings. The minimum requirement is to write the words in a standard, neat and clear way, so that people are willing to accept them. If you write the words in a mess, or even make words at will, readers will interpret the "heavenly book" and lose its practical value if they can't recognize it.
In today's increasingly competitive society, beautiful writing, whether in study, work or life, will leave a good impression on people and enhance self-confidence.
Second, calligraphy can cultivate self-cultivation.
Learning calligraphy can make people "quiet", cultivate people's excellent qualities such as concentration, carefulness, patience and perseverance, and thus improve people's comprehensive quality, which is irreplaceable by other disciplines. As the saying goes: quiet and far-reaching, quiet and wise.
When a person's mind is at peace, his thinking quality and efficiency are the highest; On the contrary, it is impetuous, confused or incoherent. Nowadays, the pace of social life is getting faster and faster, but people are generally impetuous, careless and lack patience and perseverance. Through calligraphy, you can make up for it.
Third, calligraphy can cultivate sentiment.
The inherent law of calligraphy determines the seriousness of learning books. This requires learners to have a good psychological state and treat them with a high degree of learning enthusiasm and sincere attitude; Must be diligent and unremitting; We should strengthen our self-cultivation and broaden our artistic conception; We must enrich our knowledge and learn from the past, otherwise we will accomplish nothing.
Fourth, calligraphy is good for health.
Calligraphy art can not only give people beautiful enjoyment, but also be an effective health care method. The research conclusion of medical experts shows that calligraphy ranks first among 20 occupations that can make people live longer.
Writing can get rid of illness and strengthen the body. As the ancients said, "A gentleman is sickly if he keeps his heart by writing." Writing is an elegant artistic hobby, which can make people have fun in writing. When writing, people "don't think about emotions, gains and losses, honor and disgrace, and have no worries and fatigue", which relaxes the body and spirit, regulates and repairs the body, and can delay or delay the aging of the brain.
"Writing a book can nourish the spirit and help the spirit." When practicing calligraphy, don't be suspicious, start your whole body, exert your strength to the end, write it down on paper, express your chest and relax. This has a certain adjustment and exercise effect on people's psychological and physical aspects. Over time, it can make people feel refreshed and live a disease-free life. Even if you are unfortunate enough to get sick, you can practice calligraphy. The more you nourish your heart, the more you get sick and the longer you live. Throughout the ages, calligraphy can make people live a long and healthy life, rather than just wasting their time.
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Calligraphy, as an art, does play a certain role in people's health and longevity. The age of famous calligraphers in past dynasties is a good example. "People live at the age of seventy, but many calligraphers of past dynasties lived at the age of seventy or eighty, or even eighty or ninety.
For example, Liu Gongquan was 87 years old, Ou Yangxun was 84 years old and Yu Shinan was 80 years old. Seventy-nine, eighty-one, seventy-four, eighty-nine, eighty-five, Liang ninety-two, Weng Tonghe eighty-five, Bao eighty, He seventy-four, and so on. It can be seen that practicing calligraphy really contributes to people's health.
This wonderful relationship between calligraphy and health preservation can also be explained from the perspective of "practice". In fact, the sitting posture when writing is what Qigong calls "sitting".
If a person can persist in sitting for a while every day, he can achieve the purpose of guiding his mind, invigorating his spirit, keeping his mind in his abdomen, breathing smoothly and coordinating his body and mind, just like practicing Qigong. If you persist in this way, it will be good for your body and mind! Get sick less, be healthy and happy, and live longer.
Calligraphy is the most classic national symbol in the development of traditional culture and art in China for five thousand years. It is an art form of writing Chinese characters with a brush, which has aesthetic inertia.
Calligraphy can be called the "fourth religion" in China, with strong attraction, strong sense of ceremony and strong public participation. Therefore, for more than 5,000 years, the most important figures in each period are Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei, Zhao Mengfu, Zhu Yunming, Wang Duo and Mao Zedong.
In terms of techniques, paying attention to writing, pen, stippling, structure, ink painting and composition is closely related to traditional Chinese painting and seal cutting. On the surface, calligraphy refers to the statutes of writing. In life, the word calligraphy has the following meanings. One is the pronoun of a written work or the collective name of all written works; Second, an art category generally refers to the art of writing Chinese characters.
In Guang Yi and Zhou Shuang, Kang Youwei said: "The structure of Tang Yan is interesting for merchants in Song Dynasty", which shows that the pursuit of statutes in Tang Dynasty is the highest and most rigorous, and the achievements of calligraphy in Tang Dynasty are also the highest in the history of calligraphy.
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Baidu encyclopedia-calligraphy