Calligraphy is a unique traditional culture and art in China. This is a rule of writing Chinese characters. Chinese characters, also known as Chinese characters and Chinese characters, are widely used in the cultural circle of Chinese characters. They belong to morpheme syllables, which were invented and improved by China people in ancient times. At present, the exact history can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty about 1300 BC.
Oracle Bone Inscriptions. From Xiao Zhuan in Qin Dynasty to Xiao Zhuan in Han Dynasty, they were all named as "Chinese characters". In Tang Dynasty, it became the standard handwritten font used today-regular script. Chinese characters are the main characters that have been used for the longest time so far, and they are also the only characters that have been passed down to this day in various ancient writing systems. In China, Chinese characters are the main official languages of several generations. Calligraphy in a broad sense refers to the writing rules of language symbols. In other words, calligraphy refers to writing with its brushwork, structure and composition according to the characteristics and significance of words, making it a beautiful work of art. With the development of cultural undertakings, calligraphy is not limited to using brush and writing Chinese characters, but its connotation has greatly increased. For example, in the use of tools, there are many kinds of pens, such as writing brushes, hard pens, computer instruments, spray gun branding tools, carving knives, engraving machines, and daily tools (mainly hardware and daily tools with hard texture that can be used for writing). Pigments not only use black ink blocks, inks, adhesives, chemicals, lacquered glazes, etc., but also are colorful and strange; There are too many varieties to mention one by one. From the way of writing, some people write with their hands, others with their feet, and many people write with other organs. Some people don't even use pens at all, such as "pointing at books" and "squeezing books". In terms of writing style, it is not a kind of Chinese characters, and some minority languages have also entered the calligraphy art world, and Mongolian is an example; From the point of view of style and composition, in addition to the authentic traditional calligraphy school, there is also an "Yi" school in China, which is called modern calligraphy. Innovating on the basis of traditional calligraphy, highlighting the word "change", integrating poetry, calligraphy and painting, striving for the unity of form and content, and making the work a masterpiece of "beauty in meaning, beauty in sound and beauty in form". In Japan, many calligraphers abandoned the language of writing and established the "image" of writing, and the school of "ink image" came into being to write various writing images with the weight of the pen, the opening and closing of Ji Xu and the nib, and the change of writing posture. All these (of course, not only these) can be seen that calligraphy, like other things, is constantly developing and changing, and must be highly valued by people in the calligraphy field. There are five main calligraphy styles in China, namely, regular script (including regular script and printed script), running script (including running script and cursive script), cursive script (including Cao Zhang, grass, grass and standard cursive script), official script (including Gu Li and Jin Li) and seal script (including Da Zhuan and Xiao Zhuan). In addition, there are Mongolian calligraphy, Arabic calligraphy and Japanese calligraphy derived from Chinese calligraphy. Listen, I know more!
There were many famous calligraphers in ancient China, among which Wang Xizhi, Ou Yangxun, Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, Zhao Mengfu, Zhang Xu, Huai Su, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Chu Suiliang and Mi Fei were the most outstanding.
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