daisukeniwa19000 asked:


I would like to give my Girlfriend a card that says “You are very beautiful” in Chinese but I only know Japanese so I would like to know the Kanji or calligraphy for it and a simple breakdown of the pronunciation.
Thank you for the help.

Lois

chink_prat16 asked:


I am an arts student i hear that practicing chinese calligraphy helps in improving strokes.I have been unable to find specific internet on the net and i dont want to pay….are there any specific brushes/pens that are used ..please help !!

Marvin

Andrew asked:


I have found a few different images of Chinese calligraphy for inner strenght, but I do not know which one is correct. Can anyone give me a link to a correct source?

Louise

Shashwith Uthappa asked:


A delightful hobby, a satiation for aesthetics, an opportunity to learn about culture, science and technology and meticulous attention to detail. Amalgamate these and you get Philately! It is a hobby engaging one with the sapience of some of the major turning points in history. You go through a tentative journey exploring stamps with historical artifacts, You never know when the sherlock holmes in you could unfold a historic mystery through stamps.

Its a whole new engaging world out there with stamps.You can easily escape the cares of the world and entre into a world of keen observation, using your mind and then slowly having the power to understand the world that once was. If you are a philatelist, you can satiate your appetance for stamps. You just want more! The sense of action and progression is like resembling to art and you experience another sunlit world.

There is good news for pilatelists. On a solitary pursuit, you could just find the rarest of stamp collections at the 23rd Asian International Stamp Exhibition.You will see stamps coming from across boundaries, preserved from large, clumsy and possibly greasy hands. At the commencement of the Exhibition, a stamp sheetlet will be issued to embark the occasion. Using the apparent dissection fallacy, yes, the Tangram as the design theme, the stampsheet will be novel and distinctive, with the adoption of special printing which has the ability to show the effect of an interactive game! By placing and slightly moving the enclosed screener, one can see surprising pattern and words on the stamp.

The “Hong Kong Museums Collection” will be issued on 16th May  by the Hong Kong Post which would include a set of special stamps which would portray six prized artworks on Chinese Calligraphy and Paintings created in 1911 or earlier.

Starting from May 14th – 17th, the theme is “Youth Philately”.

I think it’s going to be an interesting event for stamp enthusiasts across the world.If you find yourself interested, well, welcome to a wonderful new hobby!



Betty

its her x3 asked:


i need to know about famous calligraphers, particulary if they don’t do chinese calligraphy. i can’t find any information anywhere. please help!

Paul

Shocker asked:


When I do Chinese calligraphy my ink travels about 3-5mm from the brush. What I paint doesn’t looks to bad. If i make the ink thicker than the brush kind of loses it’s tip and i get some wierd stuff. I’m using a sheep brush, inkstone and stick and chinese calligraphy paper. Also to make the ink lighter I am supposed to use more water but, Then the ink travels even further.

Can someone help me? please!

Kevin

Peppi asked:


I’ve just been given a beautiful chinese calligraphy set with brushes, an ink stone, red paste and a reddish stone block, [I think it's another ink stone but I'm not sure]. Does anyone know how I use it properly or know of a website where I can learn?

Tyler

sreejith asked:


The Calligraphy pens can be traced back to the ancient civilization. The ancient civilization used a stylus on the clay tablets; these were generally used by the Sumerians and the Babylonians. The Ancient Romans also used a tool for writing which was the stylus with the wax tablets. The Chinese Calligraphy was complex and renowned in those times; they used a brush instead of a tool for the Calligraphy pen. Reed pens and quills were also used as a calligraphy pen by monks and saints in the middle age era.

As years went by the Calligraphy pens also went through a few changes. The reed pens actually used inks in them, bamboo or bulrushes were used by the middle age people. Quills replaced the reed pens in the medieval age till steel tips were, they could be shaped often when it blunts off. Metal nibbed calligraphy pens were used in ancient Rome, the metal stylus was scribed into thin wax sheets. Glass Calligraphy pens were used in the 16th century in Venice; they were used to create a steady monocline mark. They were deemed a delicate and fine tool.

The Chinese Calligraphy pen was nothing similar to their western contemporaries; they followed a complex and intricate form of Calligraphy and the tools used were also unique. They use Calligraphy brush instead of a pen; the brush looks simple for a person who is unaware of its detailed methods of manufacturing, it is made either from goat’s hair or wolfs hair. The brush itself is made of two or more layers, the first layer being an inner core which consists of a string of short hairs; they are surrounded by an outer layer of long hairs that end at the tip of the brush. These brush are stiff and strong producing sharp strokes.



Peter

jedil64931 asked:


I’m not sure what I want yet, so I want to browse some calligraphy… I dont want chinese-english dictionaries though, just the calligraphy.

Alvin

Andri Irawan asked:


Beginner Chinese Calligraphy, The Han Dynasty in 100 A.D. is the first origin of Chinese characters. The Chinese dictionary completed at that time included around 9,353 characters. The next version of the Chinese dictionary came out of Qing Dynasty and was called the “Kangxi” dictionary. The 42 booklets contained over 46,964 characters, which most are not even used today. There are variants on the characters, revised and refined in the current simplified edition of the Chinese language. This edition was put out by the People’s  Republic of China in 1956. This book  narrowed the characters down to about 6,500. This is considered a simplified form and is the most common form used today, although some remain committed to using the old traditional ways.

Chinese characters have been defined as complicated yet beautiful in their meaning.  They are complex in relation to other writing languages. Romanization is used in terms of relation or simple visual information, however the meaning of the character remains mysterious as the art styles behind it. Some Chinese characters mimic similar tones of other characters, yet have different meanings. Some characters written with just an added dot or stroke, turn into something completely different.

Of Chinese history, the crowning achievement to their culture, is the Chinese characters. They are an abstract art form displaying incredible depth of meaning in just a few brushstrokes. This thick symbolism has made it’s way into mainstream art from centuries gone and desirable still today. Words like love, faith, endure, tranquility, written in a one character form creates a personalization amongst the observer admiring it.  Many of these characters live on walls in homes to communicate a feeling.  Many masters have created their own unique style and now exists over 120 different styles of written Chinese calligraphy.

Learning to draw these characters requires patience, proper tools, clear concise instructions and of course, lots of practice. Acquiring this skilled art form can be hours of entertainment and enjoyment because it is so unfolding in a multi conceptual way.  You will learn the proper directions and different styles (one or two you may adopt as your own), and you will also learn each character’s simple, yet intense meaning. More than likely, you will choose a few complimentary to your own personality and self-expression. Rich information and cultural history is born from learning to write Chinese characters. The ability to dive into a whole new world is invigorating and creating the beautiful work is self actualization process all on it’s own.

Whether you embark on learning to write one character well to display as art on your wall, or you continue with the craft to put words together, even learning to read Chinese, it is rewarding.  The more you unravel the mystery living inside each of these characters, it seems to create added curiosity and a desire to keep going.

The ancient art of Chinese characters are popularized in cultures other than Chinese. The styles and forms of characters seen everywhere, are now a highly demanded art to learn.



Vincent