What art does calligraphy belong to?

Calligraphy is one of China's outstanding traditional arts, which refers to the method of writing with a brush. It is different from the general writing, as writing, before the Han Dynasty, not called calligraphy, but commonly known as "book", called the book for calligraphy, as an art, about the Sixth Dynasty before the beginning. Called the book method, there must be a complete set of methods, that is, mainly on the pen, strokes, dots, structures, chapters and so on a set of unified and coordinated complete law.

such as the pen to pay attention to the finger real palm virtual, five fingers together; pen need to be laid in the middle of the brush, ten thousand milli hair; point of painting requirements of the perfect and thoughtful, strong and thick; the body of the horizontal and straight to peace, echo each other; chapter must be intricate and varied, sparse and dense, the whole chapter of the gas, etc., visible calligraphy is an art of writing. But the writing of the word does not necessarily become art, write the brush character does not necessarily become an artist.

The evolution of Chinese calligraphy, the times collection network that it has gone through the ancient symbols to the Yin dynasty of oracle bone inscriptions, Shangzhou Zhongdingwen (big codification) and then from the big codification to the development of small codification of the Qin dynasty, and then from the official script to the development of cursive (Zhangcao) and the true, and ultimately evolved to the line of the book and grass, before and after more than twenty centuries, can be said to be far-flung, the great view of the ocean.

Chinese traditional art, the highest achievement should be calligraphy, in Chinese aesthetics, the highest achievement is also no better than the book theory. The theory of calligraphy includes: the meaning of the book, the history of the book, calligraphy and its calligraphy related to the four treasures, calligraphy and painting, calligraphy and literature, etc., calligraphy is not only a technique, but also a through the natural, expressive, interesting art, an art that is closely related to history, culture and economy.