How to teach yourself China's calligraphy

Hello, calligraphy can be taught by yourself, but it depends on how you teach yourself and whether your current learning ability can support your progress.

The essence of self-study is to be your own teacher. The teacher is your eyes, and your eyes lead the realization of your hands, so that you can see what is important. In addition to hand efforts, other aspects should also be followed up to have a good learning effect.

One of the core of calligraphy learning is to be able to write a word like an image, but this is not the ultimate goal. If you can realize this and find the right way, it is more important to cultivate this self-learning ability.

Moreover, the most important "trick" in learning is whether you try your best, whether you are dedicated and whether you are considerate. For example, when you come across a word, you should try to write it like it. Self-discipline is not easy, and it will be much more efficient with the supervision of teachers.

If you feel that you have the ability of self-study and self-discipline after evaluation, you can teach yourself calligraphy. Otherwise, you will learn from the teacher for a period of time, learn the correct methods, develop good self-discipline habits, and then continue to study in depth.

Share my experience in learning calligraphy, mainly about the selection and order of copybooks for your reference.

I think we can start with seal cutting a mountain, and through a period of practice, make the lines "round, round, thick and smooth", which will lay a good foundation for calligraphy, and then we can write Deng's "Bai's Caotang" and "With Zang Tao" and feel the ink works of seal writing. Then you can practice Zhang Qianbei, Cao Quanbei and other classic official script inscriptions, and then write Han bamboo slips such as Juyan and Qing official script such as Yi Bingshou's works, and feel the ink official script.

Then choose appropriate regular script copybooks to write, such as Yan Zhenqing's Diligence Monument, Ouyang's Jiucheng Palace, Yu Shinan's Confucius Temple Monument and Chu Suiliang's Wild Goose Pagoda Imperial Decree. Learn the statutes of calligraphy in the Tang Dynasty and improve your understanding of the structure of Chinese characters.

After that, we can practice understanding and controlling the flexibility of the brush tip by reading Zhong You's Manifestation, Wang Xizhi's Huang Ting Jing, Wang Xianzhi's Jade Edition Sonnets, Zhong Shaojing's Ling Fei Jing and Zhao Mengfu's Tao Te Ching.

Then learn the running script, such as practicing the thousand-character script of Zen master Zhi Yong, the preface to the collection of characters by Zen master Huai Ren, the preface to Lanting by Wang Xizhi, and Zhao Mengfu's Luo Shen Fu, and continue to practice the control of writing brush. After that, you can choose your favorite official script, such as Tang Kai, Wei Bei and cursive script. To gain knowledge for temporary writing. After writing to a certain extent, you can start off-duty creation.