What is the origin of calligraphy?

China's calligraphy art began in the generation stage of Chinese characters. "Voice can't spread in different places, but stay in different times, so words were born. Writer, so it is the trace of Italian sound. " (Lin Shu's Creation, edited by Ma Zonghuo)

It means that the sound can't reach the outside and stays at other times, so words are produced.

Words are the tracks that people record their thoughts, ideas and sounds.

The earliest works of calligraphy art are not words, but some descriptive symbols-hieroglyphics or picture words.

Symbols depicting Chinese characters first appeared on pottery.

The primitive depiction symbol only represents a rough concept of chaos and has no exact meaning.

More than 8,000 years ago, the cultures of magnetic mountain culture and Peiligang appeared in the Yellow River Basin, and there were many similar words on the handmade ceramics unearthed in Peiligang.

This symbol is a chaotic combination of the communication function, note-taking function and pattern decoration function of our ancestors. Although these are not Chinese characters that modern people can recognize, they are indeed the embryonic forms of Chinese characters.

Immediately after the Banpo site of Yangshao culture about 6000 years ago, some painted pottery with similar characters were unearthed.

These symbols are distinguished from patterns, which promotes the development of Chinese characters.

This can be said to be the origin of China characters.

Then Erlitou culture and Erligang culture. In the archaeological excavation of Erlitou culture, there are 24 kinds of marked pottery pieces, some of which are similar to Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins, and all of them are single independent characters.

Erligang culture was found to have a writing system.

Three bones with words were found here, two with words and a cross, which seemed to be carved for practicing lettering.

This has made civilization take another big step forward.

The origin of primitive characters is an imitation instinct, which is used to visualize a specific thing.

Although it is simple and chaotic, it already has a certain aesthetic taste.

This simple writing can therefore be called prehistoric calligraphy.

Extended data:

Before the Han Dynasty, calligraphy was called "book".

In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, stippling took various forms, and the calligraphy art characterized by the changing combination of lines became mature.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the academic atmosphere was unprecedentedly strong, and theoretical monographs such as literary theory, poetic theory and painting theory came out one after another, and the research results of calligraphy were also fruitful.

Famous calligraphers such as Wei Heng, Cheng Gongsui, Wang Xizhi, Yang Xin, Yu He, Wang Sengqian, Tao Hongjing and Yu Jianwu all wrote related articles based on their own practical experience.

At that time, because the academic circles advocated the theory of Laozi and Zhuangzi, the study of calligraphy was also covered with a Taoist atmosphere.

Some people call the traditional "book" and "calligraphy art" "book way".

By the Tang Dynasty, regular script and modern grass were mature, the forms of stippling were increasingly rich, and the methods of solving problems were increasingly complicated.

With the increasing popularity of "writing methodology", Ou Yangxun's eight methods, thirty-six strategies, teaching strategies, and Yu Shinan's theory of meticulous writing have appeared one after another.

Han, Lin Yun and others also have such works.

By the end of the Tang Dynasty, theories about various calligraphy techniques, such as holding a pen, using a pen, stippling and knotting, had been established.

So "calligraphy" gradually became "calligraphy".

In China, everything that can be called art is more or less related to calligraphy.

Some are obvious, others are obscure.

If western art is the trend towards music, then in China, art and calligraphy are inextricably linked.

So some people say that calligraphy is "art in art".

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