The Significance of Calligraphy Education

Calligraphy education is getting more and more attention. On the one hand, it is the state's emphasis on the teaching of calligraphy in schools, such as Guangdong Province, which has included calligraphy as a compulsory subject for primary and secondary school students this year, and on the other hand, calligraphy education has been extended from schools to all levels of the society, and has become an issue of concern for all people and the whole society.

Calligraphy education, for the Chinese, is not only a skill to teach, but also a cultural practice and spiritual cultivation.

For thousands of years, from the beginning of literacy, that is, to guide the children of the monks, nine-gallery grid, the meter grid, double hooks tracing red, Linshu imitation writing ......, in the practice of calligraphy in the experience, to practice, to feel - will be the rules, internal cultivation, aesthetic, nourishing the nature of the happy, so that it can be said to be the traditional Chinese "monks" in the most wonderful cultural and spiritual combination. The combination of rules, internal cultivation, aesthetics, nourishment and pleasure can be considered the most wonderful of all traditional Chinese "monks".

In the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, when "Western learning" became fashionable, the new generation took penmanship as an "honor", and brush strokes became a bad habit for the old and the young, not only that, but also the New Culture Movement, while "knocking down the Confucius store" and "opposing feudalism", included the square Chinese characters in the "blacklist", and believed that China's backwardness and humiliation were related to the complicated Chinese writing system, and advocated the Esperanto language to take the road of pinyin writing, and some people even proposed the idea of a "black list". Some people even put forward the slogan of "If the Chinese characters do not die, heaven and earth will not be allowed to die", which shows that China's traditional culture and national culture had already been fundamentally rejected at that time. In this case, calligraphy education was naturally a "fish in the pond", and it was quietly put together in the series of "Literacy Education" without an independent status.

But the art of calligraphy still enjoys a high status in the art world, academia, politics and other high-level, such as Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Yu Youren, Guo Moruo, Qi Baishi, Lu Xun's art of calligraphy is still greatly admired, the school is also still in the "literacy education" at the same time, to carry out a number of basically no requirements and standards of calligraphy education. This situation in the "microcomputer era" after the advent of more decline, calligraphy education, and therefore completely withdrawn from the regular writing program, fading away, becoming a residual education and cultural "luxury", and ultimately with several generations of "a blank" achievement of all the "traditional classic culture and art watchers" heart of the pain forever.

There are many reasons for the decline of calligraphy education. First, the computer keyboard input method of technology is replacing the handwritten way, at the social level, the dissemination of information and the process of generating official documents are being mechanized and technologized, is changing the handwritten for input, and even school teaching in the classroom; Secondly, since the modern writing tools from the evolution of the soft pen for pen, ballpoint pen, signing pen and so on began to hard pen, the Chinese character of the writing tools have undergone a revolutionary change in the Chinese people used to write, The use of the writing tool of Chinese people for writing and practicing calligraphy, the use of the brush, gradually withdrawn from school education; Third, the variety of contemporary Chinese school curriculum increased, students need to complete their homework writing faster hard pen; Fourth, with the popularity of computer keyboard input of Chinese characters, the simplification of the input technology and more easily operated, the dissemination of information and culture in all walks of life (including journalists and teachers) are more accustomed to the use of computers for typing, rather than the hard pen; Fourth, with the computer generation accompanied by information technology, the use of information technology, the computer is not the only tool to use, but also a hard pen to write. Fourthly, as the computer generation grows up along with information technology, they are more in need of fast and efficient office tools; fifthly, with the renewal of school teachers, a large number of teachers who have not received calligraphy education in the school learning process are gradually going to work, and their own lack of awareness of writing and calligraphy, as well as their inability to write Chinese characters, determines that they do not have the ability to educate students in calligraphy; sixthly The cultural practitioners of the whole society generally appeared to mention the pen and forget the word of cultural bewitchment, writing is not valued by the society; seven is the school education into the examination education utilitarian road, writing education is naturally forgotten.

Calligraphy is the treasure of the traditional culture of the Chinese nation, with Chinese characters as an important carrier of calligraphy teaching is not only a kind of beauty education, but also has moral education, enlightenment, physical fitness, aesthetic comprehensive effect.

Many students have made significant progress in their academic performance by practicing calligraphy. In Mr. Zhang Song's training center, tutoring for more than half a year the child's performance is no improvement, less than a month to create a miracle. When the parents exclaimed the magic, Zhang Song said that he just let the children change some of their own behavioral habits in the process of practicing calligraphy. Such as exercising the child to concentrate and not make more small movements, so that the homework, which was supposed to be more than an hour long, was successfully completed in only half an hour and was rated as excellent homework by the teacher. Indeed, practicing calligraphy can exercise a person's character of doing things seriously, calmly, and with a beginning and an end. Day after day, students' good behavioral habits will be developed unconsciously. Guo Moruo once said: "Cultivating students to recognize characters can make them think y, easily concentrate their will, and be good at observing everything. Hasty work, rough and tumble, unique and specialized, is prone to misuse, practicing the word can overcome these faults." In the process of practicing characters, only write a good stroke, word by word and piece by piece, in order to master the writing technique, so as to cultivate students' rigorous attitude of discipline and perseverance and patience of good quality.

Strengthening the teaching of calligraphy is also conducive to helping students understand national culture and develop a sense of national pride. Mr. Zhang Song has led many students to participate in foreign calligraphy exchange activities, the children see overseas Chinese children's excellent calligraphy works, very touched, after returning home to study more actively. Calligraphy education in quality education has the function of cultivating morality, enlightenment and other aspects. Overseas scientists have conducted many tests on human intelligence, and the result is always that Chinese people have the highest IQ, and one of the reasons for this is related to the unique Chinese characters. One of the reasons is related to the unique Chinese characters. Research results have proved that through the study of Chinese characters, human intelligence can be developed, human intelligence can be improved, and multiple intelligences can be developed. As a result of subtle calligraphy education, children are made to write regular square characters, which serves as a constraint.

Calligraphy education is about cultural inheritance, and calligraphy most distinctly embodies the spirit of Chinese culture. Chinese culture is profound and far-reaching, it is dependent on the carrier of Chinese characters, it can be said that the history of Chinese calligraphy is also the history of the development of Chinese culture. Education in traditional Chinese culture should begin with writing.

The Book of Rites and other canonical texts record that the Western Zhou Dynasty had a "national school", and the content of education was the "six arts", of which the "book" was listed. Spring and Autumn, Confucius said: "book to the road, poetry to reach the meaning of", "Poetry" "book" is equally important. During the Han and Tang dynasties, students entering schools were required to "practice calligraphy, a piece of paper on the day". After the Tang and Song dynasties, calligraphy has always been one of the important standards for the imperial examinations. Over the past thousands of years, the ancient Chinese have attached great importance to calligraphy education, and Chinese culture has been able to be passed down to the present day and continue uninterrupted. (Wu Quanren)