At present, in some fields of cultural life and people's daily communication, e-mail has replaced letters, blogs have replaced diaries, and keyboard input has replaced Chinese characters that have been passed down for thousands of years. It can be said that the frequent use of computers has made many people in China "new illiterate". According to a survey, among more than 2,000 respondents, more than 80% have forgotten their roles, and more than 70% have little chance to write in their work and life. Many people worry that this will put the cultural inheritance of Chinese characters in danger.
However, today, our Chinese characters are being impacted by various images, by the network "Lei Ci", by the technical force, by the so-called "writing", and are running out of energy in the carnival of liberation ... This dilemma of Chinese characters and the fate of Chinese character writing in the network age really make people pay attention and worry!
In fact, the popular words and characters in a social and cultural life period should be regarded as something that permeates every point of our lives and is closely related to the soul and spirit of our times. The proliferation of network language, our lack of respect, cherish and protection attitude towards Chinese characters, the prevalence of Chinese characters being wrongly corrected and misused, and the emergence of "new illiterates" who forget to write actually reflect the reality that our minds, emotions, spirits and creativity are weakening and shrinking day by day today and are trapped in excessive mental poverty. This also reminds us from one side that it is time to seriously examine and reflect on our hearts and spirits.
With the popularity of the Internet, we gradually moved away from the paper media. With the popularity of computers and mobile phones, we have gradually separated from notebooks and pens. Writing with paper and pen is really rare now. Only when I sign my name will I open the drawer and say hello to my pen collection. Pens are no longer damaged by overuse, as we did at school, but are inadvertently borrowed and lost by others. Inadvertently, we are already saying goodbye to notebooks and pens.
Gradually, notebooks and pens will disappear from people's sight.
I don't reject the use of keyboard typing, but I think it is necessary to call for the preservation of the tradition of handwriting in the internet age. We feel completely different from spelling letters when writing Chinese characters, which is influenced by cultural traditions. People who write novels and plays and often deal with Chinese characters are more influenced by traditional culture, have unique feelings and love for Chinese characters, and can better understand the far-reaching artistic conception between glyph structures.
Calligraphy leads Chinese characters into the art field. Chinese characters are no longer just the carrier of expression, but also an aesthetic object. Exquisite horizontal and vertical strokes, the thickness, momentum and rhythm of strokes all form the unique aesthetic feeling of Chinese characters. Calligraphy makes the content and form of words highly unified: what kind of emotion produces what kind of content, and what kind of content corresponds to what kind of momentum. Being able to write, writing well, and learning a little calligraphy art no longer stay in the traditional ideographic function of words, but more enter the level of cultural psychology, cultural taste, aesthetic needs and cultural inheritance.