Ancient calligraphy was indeed a cultural monopoly. In ancient times, there were two ways to learn and train calligraphy: one was handed down by ancestors and the other was handed down by teachers. In fact, calligraphy is monopolized by aristocrats and belongs to aristocratic culture. Ancient copybooks can only be seen by princes and nobles. Ordinary people can't see it So he belongs to aristocratic culture. Ordinary people don't have the time and money to buy Four Treasures of the Study. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Xizhi's extended family was a noble, and he had access to many excellent calligraphers.

Their uncle Wang Dao, teacher Mrs Wei, etc. Wang Xizhi's calligraphy has been handed down from his ancestors and teachers. You have a vision to write such a good word. Ordinary people can't touch these people. In ancient times, if you wanted to learn calligraphy, you had to find rubbings and copybooks to practice calligraphy. In ancient times, it was not like this. It is necessary to expand the transcript or copy it on the manuscript. And among the nobles, good copybooks are borrowed, not everyone has them. Now they are all copies, and you can buy other copybooks at any time, as long as you look them up online, so ancient times were aristocratic culture. Generally speaking, calligraphy was a monopoly aristocratic culture in ancient times. You can see that most calligraphers in the past dynasties were senior officials of the current dynasty.

For example. With the development of the times, the age and true identity of students are constantly changing. Most experts and scholars in the Han Dynasty were ordinary. Since the Han Dynasty, the proportion of experts and scholars from senior officials and ministers has gradually increased. Especially since the Jin Dynasty, the imperial clan children have a great advantage. The reason why the imperial clan can produce such monopolistic influence in the cultural and educational industry is closely related to their slow control of the political power. There is a tendency of interdependence between political power and cultural education. There was no imperial examination at that time. There are often children of senior officials, who have been officials for generations. Generally speaking, the lower class seems to be frozen in their class and oppressed and squeezed. One day, I really can't stand it. The only way to change shifts is to rebel and join a rebel team.

The expected dawn appeared in the imperial examination system, which gave ordinary family children a relative fairness and justice and was regarded as an equal opportunity to change their lives and serve the country. In addition, an important point in the design scheme is that the invention of new papermaking and its gradual and extensive application have greatly reduced the cost of learning and writing. Raw materials for the paper industry are easily available, as are ordinary soft pens, bamboo and animal hair. You don't need to slaughter sheep, you need to make wool loops. How to reduce the natural cost, Four Treasures of the Study, the four major consumer goods, is certainly very expensive, and there is no money to buy within the well-off life line. So there appeared a master who practiced calligraphy with banana leaves like monk Huai Su, encouraging the literati of past dynasties. Why are there so many scholars in the south of the Yangtze River, and most of them take the examination of scholars, accounting for more than half of all parts of the country. It is because most of them have no worries about food and clothing, and there are more well-off lives than rich people.