Chapter 132 Practice Chinese Calligraphy
She just had Laba porridge for breakfast that day.
She cooked the porridge herself, but the raw materials used were ready-made packages on the market. The grains were mainly rice, with some purple rice and barley. There were a variety of beans, red, black, large, and small.
She has clear likes and dislikes for dried fruits. She likes red dates if they are eaten directly dry, made into snacks or flavored milk drinks, but if they are boiled into porridge or placed in pastries, she will find them watery and sweet. Don't like to eat.
So when she was cooking porridge, she used the decomposition function of space to easily remove the red dates and other ingredients, leaving only the peanuts and lotus seeds, and added some extra corn.
She cooked a large pot directly in the rice cooker and put it into the space without letting it dry for too long. Now she put out a small bowl and it was still steaming.
Originally, it was so comfortable to drink hot porridge when it was cold, but now it was obviously not cold, so she put the porridge in the vent of the mobile air conditioner and blew it again, then she took out a meat bun with sauce and ate it first.
The buns were not big in size, and the fillings tasted good and thick. She ate the buns and drank the porridge. The porridge was already thick, and she could scoop out a spoon full of beans. In fact, she could just drink the porridge. Full belly.
But it was bland. Rock sugar was added to the porridge, which was a little sweet and more fragrant. She ate salty steamed buns, brown sugar cookies, and drank three bowls of porridge for breakfast. Very satisfying to eat.
After eating and digesting for a while, she started a new hobby that she had been persisting in for a while - writing copybooks.
Well, is it a hobby? Just barely.
The reason why this new hobby was developed can be traced back to the two days of Christmas last year—it was said to be last year, but in fact it was less than a month ago—the movie day she arranged for herself.
The movie she watched at the time was an adaptation of the novel. After watching the movie, she began to read the original novel again.
This foreign fantasy-themed novel is very famous. After all, she has read the whole series several times. No, after watching the movie adaptation, her interest was piqued again.
But it is precisely because she has read it several times that she is familiar with the plot and world view. Therefore, instead of simply reading novels for entertainment, she compares the translated books with the books in the original language, so that she can learn the language at the same time.
This was also brought back by watching the movie. The original language was a foreign language she was familiar with, and she was actually quite interested in learning familiar languages.
Especially when watching movies, she can't help but read along some of the content with particularly clear pronunciation and interesting content, or the country's slang and long phrases.
So I brought this interest into books.
Since she said she was studying on the side, she simply made a small study room in the bedroom. A large desk and a comfortable chair replaced the bed, and she also found loose-leaf paper to use as a notebook.
The notes are divided into three parts. One part is excerpts of good sentences, including translations and original works; the other part is study notes, used to record new words and examples; and the last part is a record of the story content of the book.
This is a series of books. The world view of the entire book is huge, and the plot on the surface and the hidden details are very complicated. To be honest, even after reading it so many times, she still can't figure it out clearly.
So she wanted to manually dismantle and record the plot of the entire book, sort out the main plot based on the timeline, fill in foreshadowing, and record when these foreshadowings came into play.
In addition, there is an entire worldview, which is an imaginary magical world. The settings include many magical legends that have been handed down in the world, and of course there are also many personal settings of the author.
There are many settings that the author mentions in one stroke. This way of writing gives a feeling that "everything written is common sense", which will make the fictional world appear more real, and also allow readers like her to record and diversify their thinking.
She excerpted all these worldview settings to complete and enrich the entire magical world.
——At this time, the benefits of loose-leaf paper are revealed. Each page is independent and has very few restrictions. She can record and combine it at will.
For example, she can stack pages excerpted from the same book together and classify them according to several books; she can also put the three parts separately and classify them according to their content.
Even the golden finger can be copied, and she can choose two classification methods at the same time, so that when she checks the notes in the future, she can easily find the corresponding content no matter what the purpose is.
——For this kind of excerpts and study notes, she still prefers traditional paper-and-pencil recording to electronic notes.
As she started writing, she gradually realized that her words were really...
She feels that she is quite self-aware. Objectively speaking, her handwriting is not good-looking, but it is not the kind of ugly handwriting that is described as "dog crawling handwriting".
It's not even a mess of unclear words like "Everything can be written more clearly than this."
She felt that the characters were just ordinary characters. The characters themselves were clearly written, the spacing was reasonable, easy to distinguish, and quite neat. She was quite satisfied with this level.
But maybe it’s because she stopped writing for a long time after graduation, and the work she did before didn’t require writing. Later, she didn’t take the initiative to write in daily life, so she picked up the pen now...
It’s weird, writing feels weird. I always feel like... I can't control it well, and it feels like the pen is going to fly as I write.
So she learned from the experience and decided to add a fixed schedule every day: practicing calligraphy and writing copybooks.
Not just copybooks in her native language, but also in two other foreign languages she had studied.
The two foreign languages are very different from the native language. They both use fixed letters to spell out characters or words. She only needs to write all the letters, so she picked her favorite handwriting copybook and started writing directly.
The language of her country is different, and each word cannot be put together simply with strokes, so she honestly chose a correct font and followed the copybook every day.
She had to lament once again the subtle changes that the end of the world had brought to her.
Before the end of the world, she would occasionally suddenly become passionate about practicing calligraphy, but when she thought about how boring the copybook was, her enthusiasm was extinguished, and she thought, what's the use of not practicing?
Now that she has a lot of time to waste after the apocalypse, she finds that she has become less anxious, and she is quite excited when choosing copybooks, and her focus has shifted from "the practicality of practicing calligraphy" to the fun.
As soon as the focus shifted, her whole mood took on a new look, her impetuousness was swept away, and she gradually tasted the peaceful pleasure of copying copybooks.
This is not a task that someone is watching, it is all done consciously, so there is no pressure. Every time you write a beautiful stroke, the sense of accomplishment that comes up can also make your mood high.
She arranges her calligraphy practice time in the morning, after getting up to do morning exercises and eating. Thanks to her regular schedule, she won't feel sleepy while practicing calligraphy.
The basic plan is to trace two pages for each copybook, and then practice writing by herself until lunch at the latest - but she usually doesn't write for that long.