What are the characteristics of Chinese calligraphy?

Calligraphy is one of the four national treasures, handed down from ancient times, and is a treasure of China. Chinese calligraphy is an ancient art, which has evolved from oracle bone inscriptions and gold inscriptions into the Big Seal Script, Small Seal Script, and Clerical Script, and then to the Cursive, Regular Script, and Running Script styles that were finalized in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Wei Dynasty, and the Jin Dynasty, and it has always been exuding the charms of the art.

Chinese calligraphy has a long history, reflecting the spirit of the times with different styles, and the art is always youthful. In the history of Chinese calligraphy, different styles have reflected the spirit of the times, and the art has always been youthful. Looking at calligraphy through the ages, "the Jin people emphasized rhyme, the Tang people emphasized method, the Song people emphasized meaning, and the Yuan and Ming people emphasized style. Tracing the development of calligraphy over the past three thousand years, we can clearly see that it has synchronized with the development of Chinese society and strongly reflected the spirit of each era. The art of calligraphy is a unique treasure in the world and a splendid flower of Chinese culture. The art of calligraphy is the most typical reflection of the beauty of oriental art and the excellence of oriental culture, and it is an art treasure that our nation should be proud of forever. It has a deep mass base and artistic characteristics that are unparalleled in any art in the world. The art of calligraphy is becoming more and more popular.

The staging of the history of Chinese calligraphy, from the general division, can be Yan Zhenqing in the Tang Dynasty as a demarcation point, previously known as the "period of evolution of the calligraphic style", and later known as "the period of stylistic change". During the period of evolution of calligraphic style, the development of calligraphy was mainly oriented to the evolution of calligraphic style, and the display of calligraphers' artistic style was often associated with calligraphic style. During the period of stylistic change, the calligraphic style was already in place, so there was no need to create a new typeface. So the calligrapher puts forward the idea of "still want", "style" has been fixed, and "intention" is alive, which further strengthens the author's main role.

One: the origin of calligraphy

Calligraphy is the art of writing Chinese characters. It is not only the cultural treasure of the Chinese nation, but also unique in the world's cultural and artistic treasures. In the long history of evolution and development of Chinese characters, on the one hand, it has played an important social role in the exchange of ideas and cultural inheritance, and on the other hand, it has formed a unique plastic art in itself. In recent times, it has been proved that the origin of Chinese writing is generally believed to have been created during the "Yangshao Culture" in the middle reaches of the Yellow River in China, about 5,000 or 6,000 years ago. The Yangshao Culture was first discovered in Yangshao Village, Jingshan, Henan Province, in 1921 and was named after it. Many more discoveries have been made in the last 40 years.

The scripts of the world's peoples are summarized in three main types, namely, ideographs; ideographic scripts; and phonetic scripts. Chinese characters are typically ideographs developed on the basis of ideographic characters. The method of creating characters in pictographs is to draw the objects. However, the drawings became simpler and more abstract, and became symbols highlighting the characteristics of the objects, representing certain meanings and having certain pronunciations. ...... Our Chinese characters have evolved from drawings and symbols to their creation and finalization, and have gradually taken shape from the Big Seal Character in the ancient script to the Small Seal Character, and from the Seal Character to the official script, Regular script, Running script, and Cursive script. In the process of writing and applying Chinese characters, the art of calligraphy, which is unique among all national scripts in the world and can be categorized independently, has gradually emerged.