Why is Pang Zhonghua calligraphy, which was all the rage in the past, no longer popular now?

Pang Zhonghua's calligraphy has been popular all over the country for 20 years since the 1980s and 1990s, which is a good opportunity for people all over the country to practice pen calligraphy through pen copybooks. Pang Zhonghua was the first person who dared to eat crabs at that time. He likes to write with a pen since he was a child. After graduating from Southwest University of Science and Technology, he became a geologist. He practices calligraphy in his spare time, and writing with a pen has become his greatest hobby. No one expected that he would become a first-class figure leading pen calligraphy in the next twenty or thirty years.

What the country lacked most at that time was a pen copybook. Pang Zhonghua, who loves pen calligraphy, has a unique vision and walks in the forefront of his peers. Pang Zhonghua took the lead in publishing a book "Pang Zhonghua Iron and Steel", which swept the country. But now Pang Zhonghua's copybooks can be said to have disappeared, or drowned in the sea of many pen copybooks in Wang Yang. Pang Zhonghua was born in a remote rural area. His practice of calligraphy is purely a personal hobby and he has not received any professional training, so his calligraphy is a popular font that conforms to the public aesthetic. In the eyes of calligraphy experts, its font has no charm of calligraphy.

Tian, a famous pen calligrapher, pointed out that Pang Zhonghua's font is a popular font, which, to put it bluntly, is a Jianghu font without the charm of traditional China calligraphy. If Pang Zhonghua is described as a master of calligraphy, it is indeed a bit excessive. At best, Pang Zhonghua wrote a popular brushwork that conforms to the public's aesthetics, but the handwriting was not elegant. More professional calligraphers judge that Pang Zhonghua's handwriting is that of primary school students.

In all fairness, Pang Zhonghua's fonts have their unique advantages: flat, neat and beautiful, and easy for beginners to learn and master. But Pang Zhonghua's calligraphy is far from the most popular one in Tian Yingzhang. Tian Yingzhang is a famous calligrapher. He is especially good at writing Ouyang Xiu's handwriting. The pen words he wrote with a brush are full of charm, so now all his copybooks are sold in the bookstore.