Calligraphy is one of the four quintessences of China, which has been handed down from ancient times and is a treasure of China. China's calligraphy is an ancient art, which has evolved from Oracle Bone Inscriptions and bronze inscriptions to Da Zhuan, Xiao Zhuan and Li Shu, and has been stereotyped in cursive script, regular script and running script in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wei Dynasty and Jin Dynasty. Calligraphy has always exuded artistic charm.
China's calligraphy has a long history, reflecting the spirit of the times with different styles, and its artistic youth is always there. Looking at the calligraphy of past dynasties, we can see that "Jin people are fond of rhyme, Tang people are fond of law, Song people are fond of meaning, Yuan, Ming and Tai". Tracing the development track of calligraphy for 3, years, we can clearly see that it keeps pace with the development of law in China society, which strongly reflects the spiritual outlook of each era. Calligraphy art is a unique treasure in the world and a brilliant flower of Chinese culture. Calligraphy art is the most typical embodiment of the beauty of oriental art and the Excellence of oriental culture, and it is an artistic treasure that our nation will always be proud of. It has a profound mass base and artistic characteristics unparalleled in any art in the world. Calligraphy art is increasingly favored by everyone.
China's history of calligraphy can be divided into stages. Generally speaking, Yan Zhenqing in the Tang Dynasty can be regarded as a dividing point, which was previously called "the evolution period of calligraphy style" and later called "the evolution period of style". During the evolution of calligraphy style, the main trend of calligraphy development is the evolution of calligraphy style, and the display of calligrapher's artistic style is often associated with calligraphy style. There is no need to create a new font when the style changes. So calligraphers put forward the idea of "respecting meaning". The "style of writing" has been fixed, while the "meaning" is alive, which further strengthens the author's main role.
one: the origin of calligraphy
Calligraphy is the art of writing Chinese characters. It is not only the cultural treasure of the Chinese nation, but also unique in the treasure house of world culture and art. In the long history of evolution and development, Chinese characters, on the one hand, play an important social role in the exchange of ideas and cultural inheritance, on the other hand, they have formed a unique plastic arts. According to textual research in modern times, regarding the origin of China characters, it is generally believed that characters have been created in the "Yangshao Culture Period" in the middle reaches of the Yellow River in China about 5, or 6, years ago. Yangshao culture was named after it was first discovered in Yangshao Village, Jianshan, Henan Province in 1921. In the past 4 years, there have been many discoveries.
There are three types of characters of all nationalities in the world, namely, ideographic characters; Ideographic characters; Phonography. Chinese characters are typical ideographic characters developed on the basis of ideographic characters. The method of pictographic word-making is to draw the real thing. However, drawing tends to be more simplified and abstract, becoming a symbol that highlights the physical characteristics, representing a certain meaning and having a certain pronunciation ... Our Chinese characters, from pictures and symbols to creation and stereotypes, from ancient Chinese seal script to small seal script, and from seal script to official script, script, line and grass, have gradually taken shape. In the process of writing and applying Chinese characters, the unique and independent calligraphy art of all nationalities in the world has gradually emerged.