Chinese Calligraphy Art

The art of the ancient and regular chinese calligraphy is a major art in the chinese culture and Arts.
The knowledge of traditional calligraphy is essentially a cultural process also boosted by the personal art skills and talent of each artist.

Milla Chang since the early times of the basic school has revealed special skills for this major art and often was awarded the best chinese calligraphy writer among the students of the town.

Being the chinese language an ancient simbolic language, dated from the Shang dinasty, 1250 BC, each character has borned from a simbol and submitted to a long evolution along the history. As a basic rule, symbols became more and more simplified over the years up to present time. However the noble art of the Traditional Chinese Calligraphy is neither legible nor comprehensible for the major number of chinese natives language.
To the western cultures eyes this calligraphy characters often become interesting and even amazingly beautiful shapes, some looking "pure zen art" while others present enigmatic strokes.

Some History about chinese calligraphy here.

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The evolution of chinese calligraphy simbols - examples


Over 3,000 years ago, in the early days of chinese calligraphy, characters were markedly symbolic, representing simple objects of daily life (see image).

"Human" was represented by a farmer working the field;

"Ox" "Sheep" (or "Goat") was represented by the type of horns the animal, and so on.

Over the timeline the symbols became more stylized right up to the actual regular script. The so-called Traditional Chinese Calligraphy " 書法” (shufa) basically corresponds to artistic cursive/semicursive scripts type, design by the style and art of each calligraphy's master