Primary Education of Chinese Calligraphy
Chinese Calligraphy Tradition Primary Education of Chinese Calligraphy
| A feudal Chinese would be tested for his literary interest when he was still in his childhood. On the first birthday celebration, he was dressed up and exhibited with various things. Among them was a writing brush. If the little hand grabbed the brush by chance, the family would be delighted by his scholarly choice. He was trained to be comfortable with his right hand if he happened to be left-handed, for all those wrote Chinese were expected to use their right hand. At age of seven, he was sent to a private school. On the very first school day, he was told to kowtow to a portrait of Confucius and to his schoolmaster, with whom his journey of a learned man began. |
 | | The goal of feudal Chinese schooling was preparing candidates for the imperial examination, and the most popular educational form was private class - one schoolmaster and about a dozen of pupils. |
The first lesson for the youngster was Chinese calligraphy. He was taught how to hold a brush that would accompany him all his life. Given a piece of rice paper, he began to write the first character he learned in regular script. He wrote with his elbow suspended, arm bent at a right angle, and the forearm parallel to the surface of his desk. His fingers were sore and his muscles were strained, however, he had to write the same character over and over again to learn its correct proportion. For the Chinese, calligraphy was a controlled action, nothing casual or flippant was allowed.
 | | The first known Chinese textbook was complied around 1000 BC. Which has not survived. The textbook here is the Book One of children's primer from the second century. It contains 1,394 unrepeated and non-contextually related characters in rhyme. |
Upon finishing his primer, the would-be candidate moved onto the Four Books and the Five Classics, the Confucian classics from which the text questions in the imperial examinations were assigned. While he struggled on their lengthy text and classical writing style, he had to improve his calligraphic skills each day. Having overcome the initial difficulties and having learned to control the brush, he was ready for making imitation writing after a copybook. He was demonstrated how strokes were executed by a master calligrapher and what distinguished the master from others. He was assigned a number of pages to copy or practiced until the reckoning-by-time incense on the schoolmaster's desk burnt down. For the Chinese, calligraphy was a slow and continuous improvement, nothing miraculous would happen. |
 | | The primary schooling would last about seven years. When the pupils were able to compose a poem of eight lines and write a prose around age of thirteen, their calligraphic skill extended to semi-cursive script and cursive script |
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