After thousands of years of development and evolution, Chinese calligraphy has formed a huge independent operating system. Chinese calligraphy is both a skill and an art, with functionality and applicability. The cultural connotation of calligraphy itself includes Literary, artistic and artistic are unique art categories of Chinese culture and the pride of Chinese culture!
Wang Xun's "Bo Yuan Tie"
The unique development history of Chinese writing is also the evolution history of Chinese calligraphy. From the requirement of beautiful writing to the formation of calligraphy, it has gone through countless people With the efforts of countless people, the main calligraphy fonts such as "Zhuan, Li, Zhen, Xing, and Cao" were finally developed. There are calligraphy theories such as Cai Yong's "Bi Shi" and Sun Guoting's "Shu Pu". There are also many classic calligraphy works such as Wang Xizhi's "Orchid Pavilion Preface", Wang Xianzhi's "Mid-Autumn Tie", Yan Zhenqing's "Yan Qin Li Stele", Liu Gongquan's "Mysterious Pagoda Stele" and many other classic calligraphy works!
Part of Sun Guoting's "Book Book".
Since 2000, many universities in my country have successively opened calligraphy professional courses, and gradually established calligraphy majors, calligraphy departments, calligraphy graduate students, calligraphy doctoral majors, calligraphy art and culture research institutes and other scientific research institutions.
Chinese calligraphy is one of the four national quintessences and has been included in the world's intangible cultural heritage... It should have become a professional independent art discipline long ago. From a practical point of view, writing education is an indispensable and important subject in national compulsory education - writing skills. From the perspective of calligraphy art, calligraphy is not only writing, but also a special cultural industry project engine. It has been influencing the survival and development of pen industry, paper industry and other industries related to the four treasures of the study, calligraphy and painting decoration, and calligraphy and painting collection for thousands of years!
Chinese calligraphy technology and calligraphy aesthetics are quite extensive, and are intrinsically related to other departments such as literature, art, music, martial arts, dance, photography, etc. The elements that can be referenced in these departments are usually used to improve calligraphy. For the quality of calligraphy art, this practice is called Ziwai Gong.
Chinese calligraphy is both a carrier and a media. It is widely used in stone tablets, epitaphs, inscriptions, couplets, sculptures, advertisements, trademarks, book headers, movie headers...etc.!
Therefore, the status of calligraphy is the core of traditional Chinese culture, not an exaggerated language, but the word fine art comes from Western countries. From a cultural perspective, traditional Chinese calligraphy is part of traditional Chinese culture, and its status is higher than literature and fine arts. Therefore, as far as Chinese calligraphy is concerned, including the historical process of Chinese inheritance and development, it is not simply the writing of Chinese characters, but the expression of our understanding of calligraphy culture, personal cultivation, character, and structure
In view of Chinese calligraphy To be broad and profound, scholars need to have a traditional literary foundation, learn the history of calligraphy, study the classical masterpieces of great calligraphers of the past, strengthen personal cultivation, and reach the high realm of calligraphy and character!