Calligraphy is calligraphy and cannot be called a toy. Please respect Chinese culture.
Book refers to writing, writing.
Dharma refers to methods, rules, and laws.
It means the method of writing Chinese characters.
And calligraphy has more connotations, such as calligraphy is a kind of knowledge, calligraphy is an art, calligraphy is a skill, calligraphy is very elegant, etc.
Please note that some people like to regard calligraphy as art, and they will regard this superficiality as the essence of calligraphy. This is very superficial and stupid. For example, Xi Shi is very beautiful, so women are beautiful, so those who are not beautiful are not women. This logic is obviously wrong.
Since Western aesthetics entered China, some people thought that calligraphy lacked vitality and needed external nourishment. As a result, calligraphy was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts and an art category separated from the masses was established. It is very sad. Because those people lack basic training methods and correct ways of thinking, they cannot correctly understand calligraphy. Therefore, they cannot see the essence of calligraphy and its original role in promoting social development.
Writing is a symbol, Chinese characters are a symbol, and calligraphy is a method of writing such symbols. Of course, Chinese characters have their own beauty, but not all beautiful things are art.
Chinese calligraphy has more connotations than art. If we simply regard it as a visual art, it really underestimates our own culture.