The development of calligraphy exhibition has really promoted the prosperity of mass calligraphy activities and formed a calligraphy culture with the characteristics of the times. From calligraphy training and education to calligraphy market, it is closely related to calligraphy exhibition. Due to the vigorous publicity of the news media and the fact that winning the exhibition is an important condition for joining the China Calligraphy Association, participating in the calligraphy exhibition has become the "only shortcut" for calligraphers and calligraphy lovers to succeed and the "baton" that affects the calligraphy creation of an era. This is a unique landscape in the history of calligraphy in China. Needless to say, in this way, there are also some disadvantages. For example, the calligraphy exhibition mechanism has fundamentally shaken the traditional calligraphy creation view of literati who are comfortable and express their spirituality, and the utilitarianism of calligraphy creation has expanded, but the lack of calligraphy learning has become a common phenomenon. Of course, this does not affect the achievements of the vigorous calligraphy mass movement in the past 30 years. Moreover, we are delighted to see that in addition to the "National Exhibition" and other large-scale exhibitions, a large number of "folk" calligraphy exhibitions spontaneously organized by calligraphers and calligraphy lovers have been carried out vividly, showing tenacious vitality. We believe that with the vigorous development of calligraphy activities, the mass and popularity are developing in a higher, deeper and stronger direction.
Contemporary calligraphy education in China started from higher education. China's higher calligraphy education has made great progress in scale, level, personnel training and teaching level, but there are still many difficulties and problems. Modern higher calligraphy education in China has established a relatively complete education level and discipline system from undergraduate, master, doctor and postdoctoral. In this sense, calligraphy education is an independent major or discipline. 1979 Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts recruits the first master of calligraphy. Since the mid-1980s, Mr. Ouyang Zhongshi has devoted himself to the construction and development of higher calligraphy education in Capital Normal University. 1985 opened the calligraphy education major, 1993 opened the first doctoral program in calligraphy art education in China, and 1999 recruited post-doctoral students majoring in calligraphy. Subsequently, China Academy of Fine Arts, Zhejiang University, Jilin University, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Shandong University and other institutions have also set up doctoral programs in calligraphy, and China Renmin University and Beijing Normal University have also set up postdoctoral workstations. At the same time, non-academic education is increasingly diversified, and different forms of advanced classes, postgraduate classes, courses and visiting scholars provide a good learning platform for many calligraphy lovers. ?
With the expansion of school scale, more and more colleges and universities are recruiting undergraduate and graduate students majoring in calligraphy. According to the 2007 National Calligraphy Undergraduate Admissions Guide, there are six comprehensive universities, including China Renmin University, Zhejiang University, Henan University, Jinan University, Three Gorges University and Liaocheng University. There are Beijing Normal University, Nanjing Normal University, Shanghai Normal University, Harbin Normal University, Qufu Normal University, taiyuan normal College and other 15 normal colleges. Art colleges 10, including China Academy of Fine Arts, Central Academy of Fine Arts and Nanjing Art Institute. Science and engineering colleges include Xi Jiaotong University, Northwestern Polytechnical University and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Under different modes of running a school, unique calligraphy teaching ideas, systems and methods have been initially formed. Taking the curriculum as an example, comprehensive colleges and normal colleges emphasize the cultural and academic atmosphere of calligraphy from the particularity of calligraphy. For example, China Calligraphy Culture Research Institute of Capital Normal University offers courses such as History of China Calligraphy, History of China Art, Calligraphy Philology, Calligraphy Culture, Calligraphy Methodology, Ancient Philology, Poetry Metrics, etc., focusing on "Calligraphy and China Culture", and making extensive and in-depth research on calligraphy as a cultural phenomenon; Art colleges emphasize "space creation of calligraphy" and attach importance to skill training and artistic practice. For example, the calligraphy courses of China Academy of Fine Arts and Central Academy of Fine Arts are more related to calligraphy practice, inscription copying, seal cutting history, calligraphy and painting skill appraisal and so on. And pay attention to the cultivation of creative techniques and creative thinking, thus forming two patterns of calligraphy culture and calligraphy art as a whole. However, compared with other relatively mature disciplines such as art, music and drama, calligraphy is still in its infancy, which is far from the traditional humanities disciplines such as philosophy, history and literature. Calligraphy is closely related to the above subjects.
Compared with higher calligraphy education, calligraphy education in primary and secondary schools is very weak. Guangdong province has listed calligraphy as a compulsory course for primary and secondary schools, but in other provinces of the country, calligraphy has not entered the classroom in an upright manner and is attached to Chinese or art subjects. The task of calligraphy education in primary and secondary schools depends more on social forces.
China Calligraphers Association has three levels of calligraphers associations: provincial, prefectural and county. Grass-roots calligraphy level is the cornerstone of national calligraphy level.