In the long historical evolution and development, on the one hand, Chinese characters play an important social role in the exchange of ideas and cultural heritage, on the other hand, they also form a unique plastic arts. According to modern textual research, regarding the origin of China characters, it is generally believed that the characters were created during Yangshao culture in the middle reaches of the Yellow River in China about five or six thousand years ago. Yangshao culture was named after it was first discovered in Yangshao Village, Shengshan, Henan Province in 192 1.
Calligraphy is a unique traditional culture and art in China. This is a rule of writing Chinese characters. Chinese characters, also known as Chinese characters and Chinese characters, are widely used in the cultural circle of Chinese characters and belong to morpheme syllables of ideographic characters. They were invented and improved by the ancient Han people, and the exact history can be traced back to Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty around 1300 BC. From the seal script of Qin Dynasty to the Chinese characters of Han Dynasty, and then to the standard of handwritten font used today in Tang Dynasty: regular script.
Composition of Calligraphy Art: Characters
Calligraphy is the main manifestation of calligraphers using certain tools and materials to write Chinese characters and create artistic images. It can be seen that calligraphy has several factors: Chinese characters, tool materials, writing and subject (calligrapher), among which calligrapher is the core of calligraphy art and calligrapher is the subject with image creation.
The word "Zi" here refers to Chinese characters, which is a unique writing form of the Han nationality. Therefore, China's calligraphy is a complicated writing of Chinese characters, while China's Chinese characters have the integrity of an independent adult with various forms. The invention of Chinese characters is based on the laws of human and various animal forms.
For example, hieroglyphics, hieroglyphics, all have physical meanings. Lu Xun believes that Chinese characters "pictographic characters without pictographic characters" produce expressive and dynamic strokes through writing, and create images with vitality and life significance. The fundamental point of all arts is to create images, and this basic feature of Chinese characters has become the basis of calligraphy art creation.