China Traditional Art Calligraphy

China's calligraphy is a unique art category, which is both a symbol and a form of expressing thoughts.

China's calligraphy uses brush, Xuan paper, ink and inkstone as tools. The author uses a brush and dips a proper amount of inkstone ink to write on rice paper.

China's calligraphy originated from Chinese characters, and pictograph is the most basic and important feature of Chinese characters. Like painting, it is based on objective images, so China's calligraphy is closely related to China's traditional painting.

Calligraphy not only dominated China's paintings, but also made China's paintings have a long history and spread widely in the world. At the same time, calligraphy is closely related to China's sister culture, such as literary poetry, seal cutting modeling, music and dance.

Calligraphy is not only a kind of expressive art, but also reflects the calligrapher's personal life feelings, knowledge, cultivation, personality and hobbies through his works, that is, "words are like people" or "books are paintings for the heart"; At the same time, calligraphy is a practical art, which is often used for inscriptions and plaques.

It can be seen that calligraphy is actually a comprehensive art, and it tends to express subjective spirit. China's calligraphy has a long history of thousands of years. Since Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jinwen, it has evolved into seal script, official script, running script, regular script and cursive script. Many outstanding calligraphers emerged, such as Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi, Ou Yangxun, Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, Huai Su, Huang Tingjian, etc., which formed different schools and were in the leading position in different dynasties, and developed China's calligraphy art to a perfect artistic level.