Seeing Tang Shaozhe's rapid progress, Pang Tong couldn't help but praise repeatedly: "My lord's progress today is so fast. Even Lu Ziming in the past could not match my lord's progress today!"
After all, he was also someone who had been around Soochow for a while, and he was very familiar with Lu Meng's deeds. Therefore, Tang Shaozhe was naturally a little complacent when he made such a conclusion.
But soon, this joy was completely shattered by Zhuge Liang: "Although my lord's cognitive speed has been very quick in recent days, my handwriting and calligraphy are really disappointing! If this continues, I'm afraid my lord's handwriting will be slightly different. It¡¯s an eyesore.¡±
In fact, Zhuge Liang was already trying to save face, so he didn¡¯t tell the whole truth, so as not to hurt his self-confidence.
You must know that Chinese writing, before the invention of pens and pencils, has always been the mainstream of society. But by Tang Shaozhe's time, the brush had already broken away from normal life and entered the realm of art.
Later, in daily writing, electronic printed versions became the mainstream, and even handwritten versions became increasingly rare.
Many people often forget to write when they pick up a pen in their daily life and work. They are becoming more and more proficient at typing on the keyboard, but when they really write, they are a little unsure of where the strokes came from!
I have almost forgotten even the strokes of words. Can you imagine how far behind your writing skills will be? Anyway, Tang Shaozhe hasn't written seriously for a long time, and most of the time he does electronic work.
In this case, if you can¡¯t even write pen calligraphy well, how can you talk about calligraphy with calligraphy? Besides, calligraphy is his weakness in the first place.
Even when he was in the Ming Dynasty, he basically didn't write much - the reason was that the words he wrote looked like crawling earthworms. After Li'er saw it, he really felt that he couldn't afford to lose that person, so he simply did all the paperwork. Ghostwritten.
Later, after having Tang Mu, Tang Shaozhe completely got rid of the copywriting work, and it was Tang Mu who was doing everything for him.
So he spent several years even in the Ming Dynasty, but his progress in calligraphy was really not much. Now I am not even good at writing with a pen. Now when I am learning to write Xiaozhuan, all my shortcomings are immediately exposed.
You must know that Xiaozhuan is inherently difficult to write. The complexity of this kind of writing is not to mention the simplified Chinese characters after the reform. Even the previous traditional Chinese characters are definitely of a level that even a BMW cannot catch up to.
Over the course of thousands of years, Chinese characters have undergone numerous changes. To be specific, I am afraid that only experts who specialize in the study of text change can explain it in detail.
As an ancient Chinese character, Xiaozhuan is very difficult to write. Basically, all characters in Xiaozhuan must be written in a standard rectangle to be considered a regular Xiaozhuan. The thickness of the strokes must be consistent.
Including the distance between all horizontal and vertical lines, they must be completely parallel. The handwriting is mainly round, with round beginnings and round endings. Only when there is a circle within a square and a square within a circle can it be called a flexible round, which is the so-called excellent small seal script.
What¡¯s more, there are many other things to pay attention to, such as the balance and symmetry of the small seal script, and the looseness and tightness of the top and bottom! After explaining everything, Tang Shaozhe felt dizzy and dazzled.
Zhuge Liang is a very strict teacher. Even if Tang Shaozhe is the lord, he will never relax.
"Since the lord wants to learn, naturally his subordinates cannot get away with it. It is only right that the lord must succeed in his studies. When Liang was working in Nanyang, he often gathered with friends to play, but he never stopped practicing calligraphy. . If you want to write well, there is actually nothing difficult to do. Nothing but familiarity! If you keep practicing diligently, you will naturally become a great master!"
Fortunately, when Zhuge Liang was alive, there was no story about Wang Xizhi washing his pen and turning the water black in a pond. Otherwise, this would have been used as an example to illustrate the quality of writing and not to put much effort into it!
Of course, for a genius like Wang Youjun, who can write penetratingly, it must not be just because he writes a lot that he can develop such good handwriting. Among them, the necessary calligraphy talent is still needed.
Just like many people always use Einstein's famous saying - Genius is composed of one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, but the most important thing is the one percent. inspiration.
But when many people talk about it, they mostly only pick out the first half of the sentence to encourage others. After all, there are many people who can give 99% of their sweat, but very few who have 1% of inspiration.
But no matter what, genius only relies on the one percent inspiration, and it will definitely not work without the ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Now Zhuge LiangThe key point is that Tang Shaozhe has that one percent inspiration, and it depends on whether he has to put in ninety-nine percent of the sweat. No matter how much you say about writing, it really takes a lot of practice to write well.
Of course, practicing calligraphy also requires serious writing, rather than random writing - completing the task in order to complete the task. Not only will this fail to improve calligraphy, but it will make your writing worse and worse.
It¡¯s not that Tang Shaozhe¡¯s writing is getting worse and better now, but he barely has much time to actually practice calligraphy. To learn Xiaozhuan from Wolong Fengchu, I mainly focus on the cognitive level first.
He felt that as long as he knew these small seal characters, his alchemy practice would become much easier in the future.
But Zhuge Liang believed that there is no one who can only learn to read and write? If you just know the word but don't know how to write it, what's the point of learning words? For things like writing, reading and writing have always been indistinguishable!
¡°But Tang Shaozhe was a person who couldn¡¯t even write calligraphy well, so he suddenly learned to write Xiaozhuan, which immediately became a joke.
Even Zhang Jiao was embarrassed to comment on the calligraphy he wrote, and just kept giggling: "Well, my lord, you can actually draw talismans in my teaching. This basic skill is pretty good!"
Damn it, look at what you said, how level you are? Being able to go to Taiping Dao to draw talismans is obviously a compliment, right?
But when Tang Shaozhe thought about it carefully, his face suddenly darkened - it seemed that in the past, people used to call the characters that could not be recognized as "ghost symbols", especially because the characters were ugly. When Zhang Jiao asked him to draw talisman, didn't he say that his calligraphy was not good? Although a bit tactful.
Even with Tang Shaozhe's thick skin, he felt ashamed when he heard such comments.
??????????????????????????????? It seems that writing small seal characters is really indispensable in practicing alchemy in the future. It seems that there are similar steps among the specific steps to make alchemy. It¡¯s better not to fail because your handwriting is too ugly, right?
Thinking of the great help that alchemy can bring to him in the future, Tang Shaozhe suddenly became heartbroken: If he doesn't learn Xiaozhuan properly this time, he won't believe it! It is said that nothing is difficult in the world, only those who are willing can do it!
Since Tang Shaozhe began to practice Xiaozhuan calligraphy hard, although his progress has been a bit slow, he is still improving.
Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong around them all have good words written on them. Under their instruction, Tang Shaozhe also made rapid progress.
No matter how difficult it is to write and practice small seal characters, Tang Shaozhe didn't have too many difficulties after he became ruthless. It¡¯s difficult for those who don¡¯t know how to do it, but it¡¯s not difficult for those who can! After writing one piece of paper after another, he really liked the feeling of writing Xiaozhuan.
Of course, since he first let him start writing by himself, Zhuge Liang found that the characters written by Tang Shaozhe were holographic like dogs. He was really worried that the news would spread and tarnish his reputation, so he never let Tang Shaozhe write by himself again.
The idea after the adaptation was to let Tang Shaozhe draw red and write big characters. This is a period that almost all beginners of calligraphy have to go through once. According to Zhuge Liang, this is what he said: " There is no reason why writing in the world can be solved overnight. Although my lord is a genius, he cannot go against the truth of the world. From now on, Liang will trace the big red characters for my lord every day. My lord, let's focus on copying first! "
If Tang Shaozhe were allowed to continue practicing like this, Zhuge Liang would probably be so angry that he would die on the spot if he saw such nonsense calligraphy again! Anyway, after Pang Tong saw his calligraphy practice book, he didn't speak for a long time.
So Tang Shaozhe had one more task every day. After learning the small seal script from the two gentlemen, he then wrote ten large-character pieces - mainly depicting red. Unless he corrects this shit, Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong will never give up anyway.
Fortunately, Tang Shaozhe is really patient and paints red every day without any hint of impatience.
¡°As everyone knows, Tang Shaozhe¡¯s wrists hurt every time he writes, and when his eyes turn white, he relies on the Spiritual Victory Method to comfort himself¡ªif you work harder for a while, in order to become an alchemist master in the future, all this sweat will be worth it!
??After Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong wrote the big characters, they asked Luo Lin to paint the surrounding characters, and then asked Tang Shaozhe to write them down. After a whole set of procedures, Luo Lin gradually became familiar with the writing of Xiaozhuan.
It¡¯s just that she has no interest in alchemy at all, she just serves as Tang Shaozhe¡¯s dead secretary.
The days went by like this day by day, until one day Tang Shaozhe basically mastered most of the commonly used characters in Xiaozhuan.