What kind of culture is Chinese calligraphy?

? China’s five thousand years of splendid civilization and unparalleled rich written records have been recognized by the world. China is one of the oldest civilizations in the world and one of the longest lasting civilizations in the world.

Chinese culture has a long history, is broad and profound.

Calligraphy has always occupied an important position in our country from ancient times to the present.

It is an ancient art of writing Chinese characters. It has evolved from oracle bone inscriptions, stone drum inscriptions, and bronze inscriptions (Zhongding inscriptions) to large seal script, small seal script, official script, and finally finalized in cursive script, regular script, running script, etc. in the Eastern Han, Wei, and Jin Dynasties. Calligraphy has always exuded art.

Charm.

? Chinese calligraphy is an original expression art created by the Han people. It is known as: a wordless poem, a dance without lines, a painting without pictures, and silent music.

Chinese characters are an important factor in Chinese calligraphy, because Chinese calligraphy was produced and developed in Chinese culture, and Chinese characters are one of the basic elements of Chinese culture.

Relying on Chinese characters is the main symbol that distinguishes Chinese calligraphy from other types of calligraphy.

The periodization of the history of Chinese calligraphy can be generally divided into Yan Zhenqing in the Tang Dynasty as a dividing point. It was previously called the "calligraphy style evolution period" and will later be called the "style change period".

During the period of calligraphy evolution, the main tendency of calligraphy development was the evolution of calligraphy, and the display of calligraphers’ artistic styles was often associated with calligraphy.

The calligraphy styles of the period of style change are already available, so there is no need to create a new font.

So calligraphers put forward the idea of ??"advocating the meaning". The "style of calligraphy" has been fixed, but the "meaning" is alive, which further strengthens the author's main role.

? Calligraphy is the art of writing Chinese characters.

It is not only a cultural treasure of the Chinese nation, but also unique in the world's cultural and artistic treasure house.

In the long history of evolution and development of Chinese characters, on the one hand, it plays an important social role in the exchange of ideas and cultural inheritance; on the other hand, it has formed a unique plastic art in itself.

Through research in modern times, regarding the origin of Chinese writing, it is generally believed that writing was created during the "Yangshao Culture Period" in the middle reaches of the Yellow River in China, about 5,000 or 6,000 years ago.

Yangshao culture was named after it was first discovered in Yangshao Village, Shengshan, Henan in 1921.

In the past 40 years, many discoveries have been made one after another.

The writings of various ethnic groups in the world can be summarized into three major types: ideographic writing; ideographic writing; and phonetic writing.

Chinese characters are typical ideographic characters developed on the basis of ideographic characters.

The pictographic method of making characters is to draw the actual objects.

However, drawings tend to be more simplistic and abstract, becoming a symbol that highlights the characteristics of physical objects, represents a certain meaning, and has a certain pronunciation... Our Chinese characters, from pictures and symbols to creation and finalization, from ancient large seal script to small seal script,

From seal script to Li, Kai, Xing and Cao, various forms gradually formed.

In the process of writing and using Chinese characters, the art of calligraphy, which is unique among the languages ??of various ethnic groups in the world and can be an independent category, gradually emerged.

Famous calligraphers in ancient my country include Wang Xizhi, Ouyang Xun, Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, Wang Xianzhi, Zhao Mengfu, Huang Tingjian, etc. Each of them is a figure who influenced the times, and calligraphy has influenced generations. Simply put, calligraphy is the main creation artist.

? The first one is Wang Xizhi, a famous calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, known as the "Sage of Calligraphy".

His representative work "Lanting Preface" is known as "the best running script in the world".

Wang Xizhi drew on the strengths of many others and formed his own line. Not only is it a highly symbolic monument in the history of Chinese calligraphy, it has profoundly influenced Chinese calligraphy for thousands of years, but he also left behind a large number of rich and diverse calligraphy masterpieces.

?The second place is Ouyang Xun, a famous calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty and one of the four masters of regular script. His representative work "Huangfu's Birthday Stele" is called "the first regular script in the Tang Dynasty".

Ouyang Xun's calligraphy achievement is in regular script, with strong writing power and unique structure. Later generations called it "European style".

The third place is Yan Zhenqing, a calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty and one of the four masters of regular script in ancient China. He is also known as "Yan Liu" together with Liu Gongquan, and is also known as "Yan Jin Liu Gu".

Create "Yan Body".

"Manuscript of Memorials to Nephew" is a draft written by Yan Zhenqing in the Tang Dynasty to commemorate his nephew Yan Jiming. It was written in one go regardless of clumsiness and was often written until the pen was dry. It is known as "the second running script in the world".

The fourth place is Liu Gongquan, a famous calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty and one of the four masters of regular script. His representative works include "Diamond Sutra Stele", "Mysterious Tower Stele" and "Shence Military Discipline Shengde Stele".

Founded "Liu Ti".

Liu Gongquan's calligraphy was famous in the Tang Dynasty, and there was even a saying that "one Liu character is worth a thousand pieces of gold".

The fifth place is Wang Xianzhi, known as "Da Ling". He learned calligraphy from his father when he was young, and is especially famous for his cursive cursive writing. He is known as the "Little Sage" in the history of calligraphy, and is called the "Two Kings" together with his father Wang Xizhi.

The regular script is represented by "Thirteen Lines of Luo Shen Fu", the running script is "Yatou Wan Tie" the most famous, and the cursive script masterpiece "Mid-Autumn Tie" is listed as one of the "Three Xi Tie" of the Qing Dynasty.