Scientific and effective teaching quality evaluation (QE) is helpful to improve teaching mode and improve teaching quality. At present, calligraphy teaching (CT) QE methods are few in number and have poor evaluation effect. Aiming at these problems, deep learning (DL) is introduced to realize intelligent evaluation of CT quality. First, based on relevant research, the CTQE indicator system is constructed. Secondly, rough set and the principal component analysis (PCA) are used to reduce the dimension of the CTQE index system and extract four common factors. Then, the corresponding index data is input into the BP neural network (BPNN) model optimized by the improved sparrow search algorithm for fitting. Finally, combining the above contents, the improved sparrow search algorithm (ISSA) BPNN model is built to realize the intelligent evaluation of CT quality. The experimental results show that the loss value of ISSA-BPN model is 0.21, and the fitting degree of CT data is 0.953. The evaluation Accuracy is 95%, Precision is 0.945, Recall is 0.923, F1 is 0.942, and AUC is 0.967. These values are superior to the most advanced teaching QE model available. The SSA-BPNNCTQE model proposed in the study has excellent performance in CTQE. This is of positive significance to the improvement of teaching quality and students' calligraphy level.