Calligraphy? What is Chinese calligraphy?

In China, countless people are learning calligraphy every day, but how many of them can tell what calligraphy is and what is calligraphy, and how to learn calligraphy?

Let's say the art of calligraphy, it is the unique traditional culture of China, it is with Chinese characters as the performance object, by pen, ink, paper and inkstone as the tool, is a unique line model art, Chinese calligraphy can through practice in line with expresses the feeling, very rich and complex human thought has a very high aesthetic value, modern calligrapher shen yin-mo once said: "the calligraphy is colorless and brilliant with figure, silent a music melody, an appreciation, heart chang."

How to learn calligraphy? The origin and flow of Chinese calligraphy is oracle, jinwen, xiaozhuan, official script, regular script and running script. Or do you choose your favorite font to learn? Personally, I think we can learn from the regular script first, because the regular script is more comprehensive.

Write regular script to start from block script, write after certain level, write again medium block letter, write medium block letter decently, convergent at last small block letter. The larger block can start from the yan style, the middle block can start from the European style, and the smaller block can start from the hands of wang xizhi, etc.

There is an old saying: "the window is clear, the writing brush ink paper ink, all extremely excellent, also is a joy of life." Let's feel the joy together.