Since 2006, China Calligraphy Association has reached a cooperation understanding with China Calligraphy Research Institute of China Academy of Art, and started to organize the related work of "China Calligraphy" application. On September 8, 2008, China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center called China to declare to UNESCO.
Mobilization conference on the list of intangible cultural heritage of mankind. Not long ago, the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO considered and approved the inclusion of China calligraphy in the representative list of intangible cultural heritage of mankind, which became one of 76 projects.
The Cultural Connotation of Calligraphy
China's calligraphy is an ancient art of writing Chinese characters. Calligraphy has always exuded artistic charm, from Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Yunnan, to Dazhuan, Xiaozhuan and Lishu, and then to cursive script, regular script and running script in the Eastern Han Dynasty and Wei and Jin Dynasties. China's calligraphy is an original performance art of the Han nationality, which is known as "poetry and dance without words". Painless paintings, silent music.
Chinese characters are an important factor in China's calligraphy, because China's calligraphy was produced and developed in China culture, and Chinese characters are one of the basic elements of China culture. Relying on Chinese characters is the main symbol that distinguishes China's calligraphy from other kinds of calligraphy.