Handwritten Chinese characters can be beautiful. Living in a digital era with smartphones and computers, most students sooner or later ask themselves this question:
Knowing how to write Chinese characters by hand is just cool. It feels like magic when you write a few strokes(笔画)on paper that don't normally make sense, but they suddenly come together and create a meaning.
Handwriting characters trains your muscle memory, making characters stay longer in your memory and improving your reading and speaking skills. However, without knowing how to write characters by hand, you are very unlikely to reach a level above intermediate(中级的).
Handwriting characters is a form of meditation. Once you learn how to stay focused, you will not only notice that your concentration skills improve, but you will also find yourself feeling calm and relaxed when writing characters.
Most people agree that we should learn to write last least some characters at some point as a student of Chinese, although not necessarily straight away and not necessarily all the characters that you can say. But unless you don't care about written language at all, you should learn the basics of handwriting. You don't need to be a calligraphy master, but you do need basic handwriting skills to do this. Simply looking at things is, as usual, a bad way of learning.
A. And amazingly, you can understand it.
B. Is it important to learn Chinese culture?
C. Handwriting characters trains your concentration.
D. Learning characters is a good idea for all students.
E. Without it, it will be very hard to understand characters.
F. Is it really necessary to learn how to write by hand in Chinese?
G. You can learn Chinese to a certain level without handwriting characters.
