What's the buzz

A TV contest on writing Chinese characters has become very popular across the country, and made many people rue their inability to use pen and paper to write in the information age. How can we help people continue the traditional art of writing? The views of China Daily's mobile phone news readers follow:

Computers and laptops, followed by smartphones and tablets, have curtailed people's need to use a pen to write, which is loss of an important cultural trait. To avoid becoming strangers to the art of writing, we have to use pen and paper as much as possible to write. For example, we could maintain a diary the traditional way and write letters on paper to friends and family members. I have been watching the TV contest on writing Chinese characters and admit the contestants' knowledge of Chinese characters is way better than mine. It is true that practice a man makes perfect.

A READER, Chongqing