作家进入书法圈,掂起毛笔写大字,似乎已成为当代文坛上一道亮丽的风景线:作家们办书展、搞笔会、开作品研讨会、出版作品集、成立作家书法家协会等等,颇引起书法、文学圈中人的注意。然而就其艺术水平看,恐怕不少人还未真正入门,更难以进入较高层次的创作阶段,尤其与民国时期大多数著名作家相比,则基本不在一个水平线上。这可以说是情理中事。因为,书法与绘画、音乐以及杂技等艺术品类一样,需要有坚实的基本功,要经过较为严格的按部就班的训练,经过长年的积累、消化、融会,方可有所成就。而当代绝大多数作家不可能有丰裕的时间从事基本功的练习和进一步的深入研究,就像一位成功的书家同时还想成为著名作家一样难而又难。然而也有例外,河南省社科院文学研究所所长、省文学院首任院长、省文艺 Writer into the calligraphy circle, Gaoqi brush writing characters, seems to have become a contemporary literary landscape on a beautiful: Writers do book exhibition, pen pens, open works seminars, publishing collections, the establishment of calligraphers writers Association, etc., rather lead to calligraphy , Literature circle people’s attention. However, as far as its artistic level is concerned, I am afraid that many people are still not really getting started, and it is even more difficult to enter the higher-level creative stage. Compared with most famous writers of the Republic of China, they are basically not on the same level. This can be said to be a reasonable thing. Because calligraphy, like painting, music and acrobatics, requires a solid grounding in basic skills and a rigorous step-by-step training that can only be accomplished through years of accumulation, digestion and integration. The vast majority of contemporary writers can not have plenty of time to practice basic skills and further study, just as a successful book writer at the same time want to become a famous writer as difficult and difficult. However, there are exceptions, the director of Institute of Literature of Henan Academy of Social Sciences, the first Dean of Provincial College of Arts,