I'm surprised that the pen washer and inkstone are used like this!
In the past 20 years, I have finally found the reason why I don't like to write Chinese calligraphy. For people like me, it is a relatively happy thing. Who made me so slow?
Because I don't like trivial things such as spreading paper, grinding ink and washing pens. And I am serious when I write, and I especially hate the process of washing and rinsing pens. After so many years, I feel that writing a word should be so complicated, and it should be washed and dried after writing. The good mood that has just piled up is gone.
So I like hard pen writing. As long as I have a pen and a notebook, I can sit at my desk and find a small copybook. I can use my spare time. The beauty and ugliness of words are irrelevant, mainly because they are in a good mood and carefree.
Last summer, my son went to Laizhou National Studies Summer Camp. I was idle at home and listened to my teacher's advice. I spent all my time reading, reciting and writing for my children. A month later, it really worked. I have carefully read Dr. Liu Hongyi's Notes on San Zi Jing, Notes on Thousand Characters, Biography of Su Dongpo, etc. And basically learned the traditional chanting methods such as Hua Diao, and copied Jiang Kui's Postscript of Nanny Wang Xianzhi and Ou Yangxun's Heart Sutra with a hard pen, which benefited me a lot.
By chance, I noticed the brushing.
After the bookstore opens, we often take our children to it. At that time, the back room had not been cleaned up. The family sits around the round table outside, the children do their homework, the two of us read books, and occasionally water the flowers to tidy up. Only then did I notice Mr. Zang's pen washing.
Sometimes I have paranoid problems, such as eating vegetables. Obviously, there are several dishes on the table, only the nearest one, and I turn a blind eye to the rest. After eating, I found that some dishes didn't move at all. So is the study of calligraphy. After studying calligraphy for so many years, countless teachers have observed writing on the spot, visited teachers' residences, celebrities' former residences, and so on. Such an important object has been neglected for many years, which belongs to the IQ of the pig in the typical "monkey pig" joke.
"There is a ship full of animals in distress at sea, and some animals need to be thrown down to reduce their weight.
Monkey suggested: whoever catches the lottery will lose. Everyone agreed. But the monkey thought he might catch it, too. Fortunately, he is a master of telling jokes, so he suggested that there is still an opportunity to seize, that is, to tell everyone a joke. If everyone is amused, he can avoid death. Everyone agreed.
Who knew that the monkey was really unlucky and was caught as soon as it came up. So he told everyone the best joke and made everyone laugh, but the pig was cold and didn't laugh at all. The monkey was tragically thrown into the water.
The second one caught the rabbit. She also told a funny joke, and everyone laughed miserably, but strangely, only the pig was there and was not amused at all. Rabbits were also thrown into the water.
The third person caught was a sheep. The sheep cleared his throat and was about to speak when he heard the pig laughing.
I only heard the pig laugh out of breath and say that the monkey joke was really funny just now. . . "
For pen washing, after using the pen, rinse it in the pen washing first. If you want to write again soon, put it aside before using it. If you don't write for a long time, rinse it with clear water and hang it to dry. Although there is such an extra process when washing pens, instead of letting the thick black ink sweat wash directly on the faucet and making the white water pool horribly black, a "buffer" is added. When washing in the pool, the color has made people feel a lot easier visually, and it has also made washing pens a lot more enjoyable, which is no longer an annoying thing.
This may be the embodiment of the "golden mean" advocated by China people in such a trivial matter as washing pens.
Although it took so many years to figure out the joints, it is a blessing to let go of a heart disease about washing pens. So I bought a favorite Jingdezhen hand-painted ceramic pen wash online, which is not expensive, but it is very exciting to use.
Since I knew the wonderful use of brushing, I accidentally learned that another wonderful use of inkstone, like brushing, constitutes the "complement each other" of my book case.
On the way to Jiangnan during the Spring Festival holiday, we passed Linyi, and Mr. Wang took us to a Xu shop he often went to.
Just after the New Year, the shopkeeper was very happy to see us and opened the shop. Plus, we are old acquaintances, and even bought some inkstones to send back. The inkstone with a box has a whole stone split horizontally from the middle, and the slightly thicker one at the bottom is made of inkstone with a lid on it, which is almost seamless. You can't see that there is an inkstone hidden in the middle.
This is a natural layered stone. I like it so much that I bought it.
It is also known that inkstone can only be put into ink after it is put into use and the coating of oil is polished with sandpaper. This is another problem that I turned a blind eye to before, but I feel puzzled. No wonder I used an inkstone to grind ink before, and my hands are almost tired, but I still can't see the ink.
On the case, the inkstone looks small, heavy and delicate. After writing, I washed my pen, hung it up, covered it with stones, and opened it the next day. I am glad that there is still so much ink and little volatilization. Unlike before, I didn't know how to cover it, so I had to use up the remaining ink at one time, otherwise it would soon dry up, which was both wasteful and not conducive to the preservation of the inkstone.
When I am not writing, I sit quietly in the corner of the book case, or read or write. As far as I can see, I often feel like flying in front of an inkstone that looks like a stone mountain.
The love of things seems to be more persistent in these two things this year.