What is the highest realm of calligraphy?

The highest realm of calligraphy is lightness. When it's scattered, it's scattered. Light is natural. This is the highest form of pen and ink presentation with self-restraint, knowledge and artistic conception as the core and technique as the basis. Calligraphy and painting is actually a personal performance, which should be comprehensively analyzed, not a personal performance of splashing ink. To write well, skills must be combined with temperament, grace and knowledge. If a person has knowledge, he will express his knowledge in words, and if he is honest, he will express his honesty in words, which is a reflection of his mental state. If a person likes drinking and has a generous personality, then he is suitable for freehand brushwork and meticulous painting will not be very good. On the contrary, a slow-tempered person will be in place.

The degree of "scattering" and "dullness" of artistic works shows the degree of personal accomplishment and realm. In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the style was mainly chic and straightforward, but in the Tang Dynasty, the calligraphy style was completely different, and the level reached was also different. None of the calligraphy in the past dynasties reached a high level because it was melodramatic and unnatural, which also reflected the dullness.

If you want to achieve something in calligraphy, you can't do it without good cultivation and broad mind. If there are many great artists in an era, it shows that the cultivation and mind of this era are different. So painting and calligraphy are the reflection of an era. Just like a mirror, we can see whether this era is great or not, which embodies the spiritual outlook of a country and a nation. From this perspective, calligraphy and painting is a big problem that cannot be ignored.

Calligraphers should be learned people. I just practiced my skills and tried to write the words quickly, but the result was still not good. Calligraphy can not only talk about techniques, but also about techniques. If you always work hard on technology, you will go astray. Calligraphy skills, if not mysterious, will be practiced in one day, but it will take a lifetime.