What is calligraphy?

Calligraphy is an artistic expression of the unique beauty of words in China and neighboring countries and regions deeply influenced by China culture. Including China calligraphy, Mongolian calligraphy, Arabic calligraphy and English calligraphy. His China Calligraphy is a unique traditional Chinese character art in China.

On the surface, calligraphy refers to the statutes of writing. In life, the word calligraphy has the following meanings: first, it is synonymous with a written work or the floorboard of all written works; Second, an art category generally refers to the art of writing Chinese characters. The achievement of calligraphy in Tang Dynasty is the highest peak in the history of calligraphy.

Calligraphy is a unique traditional art in China. Chinese characters in China were created by working people and began to be recorded by pictures. After thousands of years of development, it has evolved into today's writing. Because our ancestors invented the brush, calligraphy came into being. Throughout the ages, Chinese characters were mainly written with a brush. As for other forms of writing, such as hard pen and finger calligraphy, the writing rules are basically the same as China's calligraphy.

Calligraphy in a narrow sense refers to the methods and laws of writing Chinese characters with a brush. Including writing, calligraphy, stippling, structure, layout (distribution, lines, composition) and so on. For example, the pen refers to the palm and the five fingers are Qi Li; The pen carrying center is unfolded; Stippling is the same as a pen; The structure is shaped by words and echoes each other; The distribution is intricate, the density is appropriate, and the virtual and the real are born together, and the whole chapter is full of gas fields; Every word is ancient for literacy, and every word is big and small, and high is not as good as low.

Expanding materials In today's diversified world of books, the art of calligraphy has sublimated to the height of conceptual change, which is undoubtedly a great progress. The modernity of calligraphy does not simply depend on the external appearance such as the form, structure and lines of calligraphy art, but on the modernization of internal spirit. The modern spirit of calligraphy refers to the value orientation of modern society embodied and transmitted by contemporary calligraphy art.

In the modern book world, the flat school still occupies the mainstream position. However, different from the epigraphy in the late Qing Dynasty, there were more calligraphers who took French-Chinese steles and ancient seal scripts in this period.

Many calligraphers, such as Sha Menghai and Lu, had been engaged in calligraphy creation before 1949, but it was not until after the Cultural Revolution that they were nearly 80 years old and became famous for their calligraphy. 1949 in the nearly thirty years after Mao Zedong's death, calligraphy was basically ignored. At that time, people were building a new China with great enthusiasm. Calligraphy is regarded as the representative of the old tradition.

Calligraphy refers to the art of expressing emotions with Four Treasures of the Study as a tool. The particularity of tools is an important aspect of the particularity of calligraphy art, and it is an important part of calligraphy techniques to fully embody the performance of tools with the help of Four Treasures of the Study. Without Four Treasures of the Study, there would be no calligraphy art.

Reference Baidu Encyclopedia-Calligraphy