How to practice writing brush calligraphy

Brush calligraphy is a kind of traditional calligraphy in China. Learning brush calligraphy requires long-term practice and patience. Here are some suggestions for practicing calligraphy:

1. Learn basic strokes and structures: Before learning brush strokes, you need to master some basic strokes and structures. These basic strokes include horizontal, vertical, skimming, pressing, lifting and pointing. Structure refers to the basic structure of Chinese characters, including left-right structure, up-down structure and left-middle-right structure. Mastering these basic knowledge can lay a solid foundation for subsequent exercises.

2. Choose suitable practice materials: When practicing China's calligraphy, you need to choose some suitable practice materials, such as hard-pen exercise books and brush copybooks. Brush copybooks can help beginners practice basic strokes and structures, and can also be used as reference materials to help you understand the style and characteristics of brush calligraphy.

3. Practice basic strokes: After mastering the basic strokes and structures, you need to spend time practicing these basic strokes. You can practice with calligraphy books or brush copybooks and practice repeatedly until you master the characteristics and basic laws of each stroke.

4. Learn calligraphy fonts: After mastering the basic strokes and structures, you can begin to learn various calligraphy fonts of calligraphy, such as regular script, running script and cursive script. Each calligraphy font has its own unique characteristics and style, which requires patient study and practice.

5. Practice font characteristics: In the process of learning various calligraphy fonts, you need to pay attention to the characteristics and styles of each font, and try to imitate these characteristics and styles in practice. For example, regular script pays attention to the symmetry and neatness of strokes, while cursive script is more casual and free.

6. Repeated practice and pondering: Practicing brush calligraphy requires constant practice and pondering. We can improve the level of brush calligraphy by copying famous works, practicing brush copybooks and finding suitable practice methods.

In short, practicing calligraphy requires perseverance, patience and meticulousness. As long as you have enough enthusiasm and hard work, I believe you can practice beautiful China calligraphy.