What is the content and soul of calligraphy?

The soul of calligraphy is the "meaning", the spiritual connotation, which, in some ways, comes from and is reflected in the content of the work.

Content plays a rather important role in the soul of calligraphy in terms of truth and falsehood, good and evil, beauty and ugliness. Therefore, the content of calligraphy is the focus, healthy content always gives people enlightenment and baptism, vulgar and dirty content will make people negative decadence and even corruption. Content noble calligraphy, its soul can be noble.

What is the content of calligraphy? The content of calligraphy, which is based on the form, consists of two parts.

The first part is the thoughts and emotions carried by the words themselves in the work. Chinese characters are composed of three elements: sound, form and meaning. The "sound" is for people to read and pronounce the words; the "form" is for people to appreciate, feel, and distinguish; and the "meaning" is for remembering, expressing, reasoning, communicating, and expressing.

The second part is the writer's aesthetic concepts, character and emotional pulsations displayed through the forms of dots and lines, which we call the second content of calligraphy. Compared with the first content, the second content is later, indirect and additional, and random and variable depending on the writer. It depends on the existence of the first content to exist.