Chinese traditional culture has the deepest influence on the art of calligraphy are

The embodiment of Confucianism in calligraphyThe two-thousand-year uniqueness of Confucius and Mencius' thought in China has had a great influence on China's national culture.

Calligraphy, as a model of traditional Chinese art, has also fully embodied the aesthetic principle of yin and yang in the shaping of its formal beauty. The ancients believed that the root of the beauty of calligraphy lies in the beauty of nature, in the life of the calligrapher should be extracted from the beauty of nature through careful observation, and will be integrated into the shape of ink and brush, if so, calligraphy can be access to the natural way, can be sublimated to the "book of the road" of the realm. So, what is the beauty that the calligrapher draws from nature? Mr. Zong Baihua, in his "Aesthetic Ideas in Chinese Calligraphy", mentioned the "text" in the objects, in other words, this "text" is the law of yin and yang changes. Yin and yang elements are the basic elements to generate anything in the universe, but also the driving force to promote the further development of things, so in the specific structure and form of things and the development of movement, the law of yin and yang is everywhere, and the art of calligraphy to be highly condensed and distilled from the specific nature of all things is also this law.

"The middle way" is never "half of the middle", it requires to deal with anything to grasp the appropriate degree, so that the various factors to achieve unity - harmonious state, the so-called "neutral". "This idea guides calligraphers in the pursuit of artistic precision, in the creation of any kind of relationship should not be "insufficient", nor "too much", in order to achieve neither childish! In order to achieve neither childishness nor fire, we need to be concise and harmonious.

Under the influence of Confucianism, calligraphy seeks to be neutral and harmonious, not radical and not harsh, showing a kind of "contain but not reveal the deep and dense" of the "beauty of the neutral". The small seal script, the official script and the regular script are the best examples of the "beauty of neutrality and harmony", all of which are characterized by symmetry, stability, proportionality, neatness and organization, with square lines and neutral strokes. In the Western Han Dynasty, the policy of unification was implemented, "Dismissing the hundred schools and revering only the Confucians", and Confucianism was given unprecedented respect.