My father chose the calligraphic facsimile of Tan Yen-kai (a master specializing in Yen Chen-ching's style of calligraphy) for my brother and I to practice on. That summer, we both locked ourselves up in our study to practice 200 small characters and 100 big characters a day.
「開始的時候，是因為學校放暑假，父親不想讓我們姐弟玩野了，就選了專寫顏體的譚延闓的字帖，要我們每天固定寫兩百個小字、一百個大字。