Tic-tac-toe Liu style calligraphy practice sheet

Author: Bai Hongwei
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Publish Date: 2001-04-01
Features: Chinese characters are pictographic, with numerous strokes and complex structures, making them challenging to master. Through the study of works by and the application of scientific theories, the author has summarized and innovated a novel, unique, scientific, and easy-to-learn method for Chinese character structure—the "Grid Structure Method." The Grid Structure Method has been granted a national patent.
The Grid Structure Method is based on the Golden Ratio, utilizing the four key functions of the grid—partitioning, proportional relationships, positional relationships, and reference—to scientifically analyze the structure of Chinese characters, including their overall composition and components like radicals. It is a cognitive method that summarizes the inherent structural patterns of Chinese characters. The Grid Structure Method is a practice grid within a square that contains a "well" shape formed by four Golden Ratio lines. The four Golden Ratio lines within the grid serve as the dividing lines for the proportions of the internal structure of Chinese characters, the patterns of their spatial arrangement, and the optimal aesthetic standards and scientific measurement scales for their inherent structures. The works of calligraphy masters such as Ou, Yan, Liu, and Zhao provide ample evidence for this. The Grid Structure Method is a significant revelation of the structural patterns of Chinese characters, offering a new approach to better understand these patterns.
The method holds both summarizing and guiding significance for the cognition and mastery of Chinese characters, enabling learners to practice writing while understanding the inherent structural patterns of the characters, thereby achieving twice the result with half the effort. This method is highly scientific, systematic, standardized, practical, and efficient, with rapid learning outcomes. Experimental teaching has demonstrated its effectiveness, improving results by tenfold, making it an easily adaptable and widely applicable method for learning to write Chinese characters.