Write good calligraphy with a steel pen - recite poetry and copy calligraphy books

Author: Huang Jichun
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Publishing Date: 2005-09-30
Features: Calligraphy is the art of writing Chinese characters, with a glorious history spanning over three thousand years. It is a magnificent pearl in the treasure trove of ancient Chinese culture. As one of its forms, regular script is the foundation of calligraphy practice. For millennia, it has been passed down in an unbroken line, with generations of masters. By the time regular script developed during the Sui and Tang dynasties, its brushwork and structure were nearly complete, with eminent calligraphers following in quick succession, like a hundred flowers blooming in the forest of calligraphy. Beginners should start with regular script. The ancients compared regular script to "standing," running script to "walking," and cursive script to "sprinting." Only when one stands firmly can they walk quickly and sprint far. Mastering regular script greatly aids in writing running script and cursive script. It can be said that regular script is the foundation of calligraphy. As every descendant of the Chinese nation, we should view practicing calligraphy as a course for inheriting and promoting the millennia-old cultural history of China. The ancient Chinese poems and prose of all dynasties are a marvel in the history of Chinese literature. The Tang poetry, Song ci, and Yuan qu are marks of the flourishing and maturation of Chinese poetry and prose creation, holding a significant place in literary history. Those intricate and ornate ancient lines, intricately carved and embroidered, dazzling and brilliant, are the crystallization of the beauty of ancient minds, worthy of inheritance and promotion.
With the continuous deepening of educational reforms in primary and secondary schools, the Ministry of Education has mandated that students memorize outstanding ancient Chinese poems and prose to comprehensively improve their cultural literacy and moral character, putting quality education into practice. To promote calligraphy art and the memorization of outstanding ancient poems and prose, this regular-script penmanship book has been specially compiled. Through technical introductions, poetry appreciation, and calligraphy practice, students can memorize ancient poems and prose while practicing writing, thereby increasing their interest in calligraphy while also using the opportunity to memorize the ancient poems and prose prescribed by the educational curriculum—a win-win situation.