Do you think calligraphy should belong to the art department or the Chinese department? Why?

There is no problem that calligraphy is the art of line, which leads many people to like to create calligraphy as the art of line. This leads to problems, and all kinds of innovations, antics, and even drawings and descriptions emerge one after another. All kinds of artistic characters, knowing characters, also come out of calligraphy, because they don't understand the writing culture of China, and stubbornly put arts and crafts into calligraphy, making calligraphy look like paintings and characters. The whole calligraphy circle is puzzled, and many experts themselves can't tell whether calligraphy is writing art or artistic writing.

To trace the source, we should have a good understanding of China culture, hieroglyphics and Da Zhuan. This time is the stage when calligraphy appeared. Calligraphy has been accompanied by the development of China culture since the appearance of Da Zhuan. Then, by learning Chinese to understand China culture, it is easier to understand the artistic beauty of Chinese characters and the emergence, evolution, development and innovation of calligraphy.

How seal script evolved into official script, and how official script evolved into real cursive script, different brushwork appeared in all kinds of characters, creating different forms of text realization. This is the beauty of continuous evolution and innovation of writing art, and it is a kind of civilized artistic beauty.

Therefore, I personally think that China's treasure, the art of calligraphy, cannot be made into artistic calligraphy. In the final analysis, it belongs to a civilized art. If you want to understand calligraphy, you have to understand Chinese civilization. To understand Chinese civilization, you must learn Chinese well. Similarly, calligraphy is more closely related to Chinese.

That department is all the same.

To tell the truth, your question is an adjustment of the education department, which may also include the discussion of calligraphy higher education.

In my opinion, it's all the same. Not to mention today, only before the reform and opening up, there was no calligraphy major in colleges and universities in China. Before the reform and opening up, if there was a calligraphy major, it would probably become a joke in higher education.

However, this does not mean that calligraphy is not worthy of higher education. Isn't China's calligraphy simply about writing well?

In fact, this is a misunderstanding of calligraphy. Calligraphy is not just a matter of writing a word. In the context of writing, there is no high knowledge. What do you write?

There was no calligraphy major in ancient times, and of course there was no calligraphy higher education. However, calligraphers are all excellent scholars and scholars. Wherever they go, culture will flourish. If you can get their inscription, it's called Mo Bao. Do you think it's like writing a slogan now? He can write. Anyone can do it?

Their calligraphy is not only the art of calligraphy, but also represents the cultural achievements of an era. Think about it, is calligraphy a random word? There is a lot of knowledge behind this, and even a random question will turn the sky upside down.

Calligraphy certainly belongs to the field of art.

First of all, at the earliest time, calligraphy was just an ancient record, recording all kinds of things, including sacrificial activities, wars, droughts and floods. At that time, it had little to do with literature or art, but due to the torrent of history, people's writing of "Oracle Bone Inscriptions Style" has become an artistic expression, which has nothing to do with literature. If people want to write literary works nowadays, there is absolutely no need to use ancient Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

Secondly, Wang Xizhi, a great calligrapher in China, really wrote an article when he wrote Preface to the Lanting Pavilion. After all, calligraphy was a writing tool at that time, but we should also realize that the Preface to Lanting has no special glory for literature. If "literature" is used, such articles are everywhere, and it is impossible to have such a prominent circulation. But as far as art is concerned, it is very rare in the history of China civilization, which can last forever and has such a high historical status.

Thirdly, calligraphy and literature are very good, such as Yan Zhenqing, but we can also see them in the corresponding history. When we discuss Yan Zhenqing, we often discuss his calligraphy, ignoring his articles, ignoring that he was a hero who resisted the Anshi Rebellion, and even ignoring that he was a Tang Dynasty official who was killed by the army like Wen Tianxiang. I always feel sorry for it. If Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy is not so good, then there is still art, is it "another Wen Tianxiang"? He uses quotation marks because he is himself.