Tuo Chunshuang solved the eternal problem of writing Chinese characters
On May 20, 2010, a news from Chongqing Hualong.com "The Second Generation of Tuo's Calligraphy: Chinese characters can be written like this, according to geometric blocks "Building Blocks": This technology has been awarded a national patent after nearly 20 years of painstaking research. As soon as this news came out, it was quickly reported by People's Daily Online, Hundreds of news media including Chongqing Daily and Chongqing Daily forwarded it, and then nearly 110,000 websites reposted it, causing quite a stir at home and abroad. Media from mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao, including CCTV, Hong Kong Phoenix TV, Macau Asia Satellite TV, and China Net, have called to request interviews with the inventor of this technology.
What technology is this? What's the charm? Why is it getting so much attention? What is its value and basis? With these questions, the reporter once again approached Tongliang, Chongqing, and approached Tuo Chunshuang, the inventor of Tuo's calligraphy technology...
The Chinese calligraphy was taken down from the altar and returned to the public as Chinese characters. One of the oldest texts and the most difficult to write in the world. It is an important carrier for Chinese people to express their emotions, exchange ideas, and inherit civilization. At the same time, writing Chinese characters is an art and a precious spiritual wealth and cultural treasure left to us by our ancestors. However, precisely because of the complex and changeable structure of Chinese characters and the difficulty of writing, it is difficult for the vast majority of Chinese people to realize their life dream of writing good calligraphy, and they have never been able to practice Chinese calligraphy for the rest of their lives. As a result, the art of calligraphy has been on a high altar and far away from the public for thousands of years. The ancient man-made characters were based on the celestial phenomena, mountains and rivers, birds and animals, and the ever-changing changes in the universe. They were summarized into four categories: pictograms, meanings, instructions, and pictograms to create Chinese characters. Take its shape and meaning, such as cow, sheep, laughing, crying, etc., and make it concrete and intuitive. With the development and progress of human society, Chinese characters have evolved from traditional to simplified, and from concrete to abstract. The only form of expression of Chinese characters is lines. The use of concrete lines to express abstract ideas must not only make people feel that the expression is accurate, but also make people feel that they have visual beauty, and elevate the writing of Chinese characters to a sublime realm of art. Such complex imagery and visual impact are all achieved through simple lines. In addition, the structure of Chinese characters is ever-changing. Therefore, writing Chinese characters is not easy for everyone. However, people are inseparable from dealing with Chinese characters. They seem to make everyone feel that they are both ancient and modern, familiar and strange, magical and ordinary, distant and close. Like the universe, they are unfathomable and mysterious! Therefore, how can people realize their dream of writing Chinese characters well? How to turn magic into simplicity? How to reduce the difficulty of getting started with writing, making it easy for everyone to learn and understand, save time and trouble, and achieve success in learning? Throughout the ages, many people with lofty ideals have made arduous efforts, but this world-class problem has not been effectively solved. Tuo Chunshuang, he was obsessed with Chinese characters and Chinese character writing. He devoted more than 40 years of hard work and painstaking exploration, and finally succeeded, unveiling the mystery of Chinese character writing... Approaching Chongqing Tongliang Tuo's Calligraphy and Painting Art Museum, more than 1,000 square meters The exhibition hall condenses the struggle of his life. Decades of Chinese character writing practice and research results, artistic works, and various news reports are all displayed in front of people. Faced with many achievements, Tuo Chunshuang is very humble. He said: The happiest thing is to see that his innovative achievements can effectively solve people's problems in getting started with Chinese character writing, serve the public, and do something practical for the inheritance and promotion of Chinese national culture. Your contribution is the greatest happiness in my life! As early as the early 1990s, Tuo Chunshuang successfully developed the "Tuo's Calligraphy Technology (First Generation)". His inventions of "Tuo's Hui Mi Ge" and "Chinese Character Quick Method Copybook" both won national patents and were recognized by all walks of life and society. Expert approval. After seeing Tuo's calligraphy technique, Ji Xianlin, a master of traditional Chinese culture, praised it: "it has unveiled the mystery of Chinese character writing" and "solved the eternal problem of Chinese character writing." On the basis of the first-generation technology, after more than 20 years of painstaking research and repeated teaching practice, he explored a new method of "playing with building blocks", which is the second-generation Tuo calligraphy technology "Chinese character geometric block writing method".
Divide "Hui Mi Ge" into five basic shape blocks, namely: triangle, square, rectangle, trapezoid, and polygon, and split and reorganize them to write Chinese characters like "playing with building blocks" to overcome people's difficulties in learning calligraphy. The basic essentials of this new technology are: first, use the inner frame of the grid to standardize the size of Chinese characters within the grid; second, use the dotted lines within the grid to establish the "coordinates" of Chinese character strokes; third, It is a geometric block that is decomposed according to the dotted lines in the grid to establish the local positioning of Chinese characters (i.e. up and down, left and right, internal and external structural relationships); the fourth is a geometric block that is decomposed into dotted lines and dotted lines in the grid, according to the Chinese characters Use different structures to combine any line blocks, and all Chinese characters will be easily solved in Hui Migri. These four points make the size, stroke position and local positioning of Chinese characters within the grid more accurate and standardized, making Chinese character writing become like "taking apart and putting together building blocks" to dissect the structure of Chinese characters, thereby subverting people's traditional thinking about writing Chinese character structures. , even Chinese characters with complex structures can be accurately mastered by beginners in a short time. Compared with traditional calligraphy methods, the time can be shortened by more than 90%, effectively solving the introductory problem of Chinese character writing for people around the world. In July 2009, the "Second Generation Technology of Tuo's Calligraphy" symposium was successfully held in Beijing. At the scene, Tuo Chunshuang demonstrated this latest new calligraphy technology, allowing people to understand and learn it at a glance. It has been highly praised and fully affirmed by leaders, experts and the media. Tuo Chunshuang said: I want to take Chinese calligraphy off the altar and return it to the public! Simplifying complex things and making them accessible to the public is a contribution!
Striving to realize your dreams, although it is difficult, is also happiness. The ancients said: "Everything is done in advance, and failure in advance will lead to failure", "take the best method, and get the best"! Tuo Chunshuang, despite his humble background, has lofty aspirations; from an ordinary calligraphy enthusiast to a national first-class artist and an expert with special government allowances from the State Council, his legendary and bumpy life experience reflects a man who is constantly striving for self-improvement and striving for his ideals. Capitalize on life... In 1959, he was born in Hufeng Town, Tongliang District, Chongqing. He lost his father when he was young and his family was extremely poor. The four brothers relied on their frail mother to sell cold water and do hard labor to survive. They have suffered from the hardships of life since childhood. Suffering and loneliness. A casual remark made by a primary school teacher in class changed his fate, "Third-grade students can write better than sixth-grade students!" His classmates cast envious glances at him, and he was shocked! From then on, he secretly determined to write well and live up to the teacher's expectations. The following year, Tuo Chun left school prematurely due to family history issues and the special fate of the "Cultural Revolution Era"... At the age of 17, he went up to the mountains to become an educated youth, and later went to a farm to engage in agricultural work, working in less than 6 square meters. In Mi's dormitory converted from a pigsty, the four walls were unable to protect him from wind and rain, so he insisted on studying and practicing calligraphy there no matter how hot or cold it was. On hot days, when he was sleepy or stuffy, he would either plunge his head into cold water or run to the sunbathing field to bask in the sun before returning to the small room to adjust the temperature difference to cool down and get rid of sleepiness; he read and practiced calligraphy until late at night, and when he was hungry, he relied on Drinking "ten drops of water" to anesthetize hunger... He jokingly called himself the "Master of Fengyu Tower". Nowadays, his calligraphy works are often stamped with the leisure seal of "Master of Fengyu Tower". He added a self-written and self-engraved couplet on the door of the famous restaurant named after "Fengyu Tower", "Heaven and earth, wind, rain, flowers, birds, insects, and fish form the world. Loyalty, kindness, wisdom, courage, ups and downs are life.” He started cooperating with others at the age of 28. He edited and published a large-scale literary dictionary, "Biographies of Chinese Literary Artists" (Parts 1-4), "An Overview of the Art of Signature Seals of Famous Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Masters" and "Biographies of Chinese Contemporary Literary and Art News Talents" (planned). More than 15 million words). Ba Jin and Cao Yu served as general advisers, Zhao Puchu and Qigong inscribed the title of the book respectively, and Chen Huangmei wrote the preface. Old man Bing Xin wrote an inscription praising it: "A good book for understanding Chinese literature and art." By editing the biographies of successful people, he realized their life growth experiences and the true meaning of success. In 1987, he participated in the first Chinese calligraphy competition held in Chongqing and won the gold medal in one fell swoop. Since then, he has won more than 50 awards in various calligraphy competitions and been selected for nearly 100 exhibitions. His biography has been collected in more than 60 dictionaries. . More than 200 newspapers and periodicals have published more than 500 pieces of his works; his works have also been collected by party and state leaders, as well as heads of state and friends of more than 40 countries and regions including the United States, Japan, and Canada; China-Japan Friendship Stele Forest, China Shenmo Stele Forest More than 20 scenic spots have been engraved into his calligraphy works. For this reason, he was admitted as a member of the Chinese Calligraphers Association.
In the 1990s, after Tuo Chunshuang invented the first-generation technology of Tuo's calligraphy, he used this technology to edit more than 80 versions of "Tuo's Calligraphy Copybook", which was published and distributed by 7 publishing houses at home and abroad with more than 12 million copies. The Chongqing Municipal Education Commission and Chongqing Publishing House jointly developed the "Tuo's Calligraphy Writing for Primary School Students" teaching material, which played an active role in promoting the art of calligraphy. From 1995 to 2000, he also founded the Tuo's Calligraphy College of Three Gorges United University and served as the dean. He gave more than 2,000 lectures to nearly 100,000 students in more than 20 provinces and cities across the country. In 2003, Tuo's Calligraphy Characteristics Demonstration School was founded in Tongliang Normal University Affiliated Primary School. Students participated in various national, city, and county calligraphy competitions and won many awards. In 2001, he also founded Chongqing's first private calligraphy and painting gallery - Chongqing Tuo's Painting and Calligraphy Art Museum. He marketed his calligraphy works to raise funds for calligraphy technology research, and created a path of nourishing research with art and promoting art with research. A healthy development path. In the 12 years since its opening, the museum has received more than 100,000 guests from more than 30 countries, as well as domestic party, government, military and people from all walks of life, and has been widely praised. When Huang Zhendong, then secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee, visited the museum, he praised "Tuo's Calligraphy and Painting Art Museum as a business card of Chongqing and a beautiful spot in the west." Comrade Teng Jiuming, former deputy secretary of Chongqing Municipal Party Committee and current leader of the Central Enterprise Inspection Team, sent Tuo's Calligraphy and Painting Art Museum "a great achievement". Be big, be strong, be new, be practical.” In order to inherit Tuo's calligraphy, he persuaded his daughter, who had studied abroad and settled in Australia, to come back from abroad and start this business together.
Tuo's calligraphy technology attracted the attention of members and representatives of the "Two Sessions". In March 2010, at the third session of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the third session of the 11th National People's Congress, CPPCC member You Hongbing and National People's Congress representative Xia Zhining They all made proposals and suggestions on "improving the Chinese character writing ability of the Chinese people, allowing 'Tuo's calligraphy' to play an active role in the foreign exchange of Chinese culture, and becoming the common wish of all Chinese people." Member You Hongbing also delivered a speech at the plenary session entitled "Revolutionary Innovation in Chinese Character Writing - "Tuo's Calligraphy" Worth Promoting". He said: "With the popularization of computers, Chinese character writing has gradually faded away in people's daily lives. Chinese people's ability to write Chinese characters has generally been weakened, and Chinese character calligraphy education has also been neglected." According to reports, Shanghai recently carried out a "Survey on the Current Situation of Chinese Character Writing" and found that 70% to 80% of students' pen handwriting is irregular and unqualified. There are very few clean and tidy assignments, and some college students, even those with master's and doctorate degrees, can't write a word. The younger generation has become a generation that only knows how to type on the keyboard but cannot write with a pen. If this continues, the current situation will be worrying! ” The speech at the conference aroused the roar of the participants. Thirty years ago, China needed to understand the world, and the whole people started to learn foreign languages. The country opened its door wide, allowing Chinese people to integrate into the world, and their minds were greatly liberated. China is rapidly developing in the world. Rise. Today, the world needs to know more about China. The central government has opened Confucius Institutes all over the world to allow people around the world to learn Chinese and write Chinese characters. The Sixth Plenary Session of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China are rising. , loudly proposed the development strategy and goals of cultural nation building and national rejuvenation. It can be seen that if China wants to consolidate its position and influence in the world, it must strengthen the promotion and dissemination of Chinese culture, which is one of the backbones of Chinese traditional culture and art. Writing not only supports the continuation of 5,000 years of Chinese culture, but also carries the inheritance and development of Chinese culture. Therefore, the complex structure of Chinese characters and the difficulty of writing must not hinder China's development in the world. Help friends from all over the world who are interested in learning Chinese characters to write Chinese characters quickly, so that people all over the world can enjoy Chinese civilization. The Ministry of Education has included it in the promotion and application of Chinese character writing textbooks for primary and secondary schools. People's Education Press has worked closely with Chongqing Tuo's Painting and Calligraphy Art Museum. In cooperation, Guangdong, Hunan, and Yunnan have also used this technology to edit and publish their own local versions of "Calligraphy" textbooks (a complete set of 32 volumes). Currently, the local version of the "Calligraphy" textbook in Shanghai is being edited intensively. We have reason to believe that the innovative achievement of "Tuo's Chinese Character Calligraphy Technology" will improve the ability of young people to write Chinese characters and change the situation of weakened writing ability and "Chinese character writing". "Dilemma" state will play a huge role and make greater contributions to the inheritance of the excellent culture of the Chinese nation.