What is the art of calligraphy?

Calligraphy is a traditional art form unique to the Chinese nation, which mainly expresses human temperament, character and sentiment through the stylized beauty of the Chinese characters' use of brush and ink, the structure of dots and drawings, and the line and sequence of chapters and so on, so as to achieve the realm of aesthetics. In a sense, the art of calligraphy has a very close connection with painting, sculpture and other plastic arts. As a practical and aesthetic combination of space art, calligraphy can still be categorized as a plastic art. Especially because painting and sculpture focus on reproduction, while calligraphy focuses on expression, so calligraphy can be categorized as expressive space art. Calligraphy was initially only used for the daily activity of writing words, but later developed into a unique art style. Of course, since people rarely use brushes to write ordinary words in daily life today, the ornamental aspect of calligraphy is increasingly replacing the practical aspect, and the role of calligraphy as an expressive plastic art is becoming more and more prominent. In recent years, in addition to the traditional calligraphy referred to the art of writing with a brush, hard pen (including pen, pencil, ballpoint pen, chalk, etc.) calligraphy has also attracted more and more interest, and has gradually developed into an integral part of the art of calligraphy.