Chinese calligraphy is regarded as wordless poetry,no conduct dance,no picture painting,soundless music
2 min readChinese calligraphy is a form of calligraphy widely practiced in China and Revered in the Chinese cultural sphere,which often includes Japan, Taiwan,Korea and Vietnam,The calligraphic tradition of East Asia originated and developed from China.
Chinese characters can be retraced to 4000 BC signs.The Contemporary Chinese characters set principles were already visible in ancient China’s Jiaguwen characters carved on ox Scapulas and tortoise plastrons around 14th to 11th century BC.
Kaishu style is attributed to Wang Xizhi(303–361)and his followers, is even more regularized.Its spread was encouraged by Emperor Mingzong of Later lang(926-933),who ordered the printing of the classics using new wooden blocks in Kaishu.
The ink brush,ink,paper,and inkstone are essential implements of Chinese calligraphy.They are known together as the Four Treasures of the Study.
Chinese calligraphy in the history had its particular forms and styles.Seal script,clerical script,cursive script,regular script,semi- cursive script are the five main styles of Chinese calligraphy.Seal script was a standard writing script in the Qin Dynasty.Qin Shi Huang ordered Li Si to unify and improve the different scripts,and named it as Small Seal script.
Different calligraphers usually have their own styles.Wang Xizhi is very good at semi-cursive script,and his son Wang Xianzhi.Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan are very famous by their regular script, honored as the Muscle of Yan and Bone of Liu.Zhang Xu,Huai Su and Huang Tingjian are great masters of cursive script.
