Chinese calligraphy

Calligraphy is art to form writing signs from a language. It is characterised by wealth and the originality of the Chinese writing. So, it permits an enormous panel of expression.

The origin of calligraphy goes back up than 3 thousand years, with the Sang dynasty (or Yin).
In another times, Chinese’s characters were written on turtles’ carapaces or on beef.

To learn Chinese calligraphy, first the one who learns has to study the milked fundamentals and then to draw characters in regular style. After you have the common style and finally the style of the grass (these styles are levels of experience).

After the creation of the empire a new style of calligraphy appears: the official writing (lishu). It was simpler to read and very appreciated for the administration.
In the third century of our epoch, appears the “regular style” (kaishu), more elegant and it distinguishes by a softer line.
Then it was the turn of the “common style” (xingshu); this version permits to write more quickly.
Last but not least, the “style of the grass” is very ramified and it characterised by a writing linked, very free and hardly legible. It contains a lot of variants.

The most famous practice of calligraphy is the use of “four treasures”: the brush (in hairs of goat or hairs of wolf), paper (absorbing or not), ink and ink’s stone (used to put in a stick of ink with some water, after that you can obtain ink).