Chapter 36: Under Fame

I like to write very much, but I don't always write very well, and I follow a lot of calligraphy-related accounts in the mobile phone app, and I often look through the writing tips and accessories they share.

I think it's probably because of where you're interested that you care about the information that's relevant to you, and similarly, because you're not interested, you don't care about the information in other areas.

I saw a news story that a certain elementary school student in a certain place had done it by copying calligraphy

The level of the "photocopier" is accurate enough to be consistent with the calligraphy, but the evaluation of calligraphy experts is very low, one is that calligraphy is not artistic, and the other is that it can only be regarded as yes

"Copier". The large number of experts in this report who wrote about the rejection of primary school students may of course just use the topic to express their dissatisfaction with the experts and scholars.

Look at the comments, netizens have been driven by the people who wrote the articles, the criticism of experts, and the criticism of those calligraphers who are as embarrassing as clowns (recently the calligraphy association has also begun to investigate those so-called calligraphers who write and scribble, and have successively removed those clowns from the association).

Looking at the related links, some street performers perform calligraphy and writing, and the characters are very beautiful but not calligraphers.

Curiosity drove me to search for the web: "How can I become a calligrapher?" Someone replied that now there are too many people who can write calligraphy and write very good-looking, but there are very few calligraphers who are really counted, and it is even rarer to become a well-known calligrapher, and there are many conditions that must be met if you want to become a calligrapher, the most basic is to learn from real talents, solid basic skills, but this is far from enough, you also need to be able to flicker, to be able to boast about your level in a way acceptable to the public, so that people feel that his achievements are outstanding, and there must be a fan group to build momentum, and the more fans you have, the more influential, to have a certain degree of cultural literacy, to be able to recite famous passages and sentences in order to quickly write out during the calligraphy performance to appear learned, but also to have a deep cultural heritage to prevent mistakes or short-sightedness when making remarks in public and making jokes...... Thinking about it this way, being a calligrapher is really constrained, and it seems that there is no industry that can do whatever you want.

This is especially true of seemingly glamorous celebrities, not limited to calligraphers. People have sharpened their heads and want to get ahead, enjoy the economic benefits brought by rare fame and the popularity of everyone, and relatively have to pay the price of being supervised and questioned by everyone.

People under fame will be very tired, not only to guard against the malicious slander and traps of jealous people, but also to guard against their own image in the eyes of fans not to collapse.

In terms of calligraphy, if I had a choice, I would be willing to work hard to write beautiful characters, not for fame or profit, and I would not worry about becoming the target of public criticism.

In that way, you can achieve the comfort of doing your own thing between the stroke of pen and ink. Don't care if you don't know

The "authority in the industry" suddenly sent a letter saying: "There is no art in what you write", and there is no need to wonder whether he said this to maintain his authority, or to guard against the newcomer's youth, whether he raised my shortcomings for free out of kind guidance and let me go to the next level, or maliciously suppressed to make me psychologically frustrated, lost confidence in calligraphy, and his calligraphy attainments stopped?

What is the source of people's recognition of others? If you write a word, everyone likes it, this is recognized, as for whether it has reached the level of a calligrapher, you don't have to care too much, right?

We should all be humble to do our own things, to be able to progress day by day is gratifying, not to get any certificates, to be recognized by the authority in the industry before there is a sense of achievement and self-identification, because of this desire for fame and fortune polluted the fragrance of paper and ink.

There is a quote in Rabindranath Tagore's The Birds: "He is blessed, because his fame is no brighter than his truth." The meaning of this sentence is simply that: worthy of the name or greater than the name,

The tragedy of "it is difficult to live up to fame" tells us to always use our strength

"Reality" is what matters.