China's calligraphy is an art of writing Chinese characters with a long history. From Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Shi Guwen, and Jinwen (Zhong Dingwen) to Da Zhuan, Xiao Zhuan and Li Shu, and then to cursive script, regular script and running script in the Eastern Han Dynasty and Wei and Jin Dynasties, calligraphy has always exuded artistic charm.
As a unique visual art in China, Chinese characters are an important factor, because China calligraphy originated and developed in China culture, and Chinese characters are one of the basic elements of China culture.
According to modern textual research, it is generally believed that China's writing originated in the Yangshao culture period 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. There have been many discoveries in the past 40 years. There are three kinds of scripts of all nationalities in the world, namely, ideographic script, ideographic script and phonography. Chinese characters are typical ideographs developed on the basis of ideographs. The method of pictographic writing is to draw the real thing. While painting tends to be simpler and more abstract, becoming a symbol that highlights physical characteristics, representing a certain meaning and having a certain pronunciation ... Our Chinese characters have gradually formed from pictures and symbols to creation and stereotypes, from ancient China seal script to small seal script, from seal script to official script, regular script, cursive script and various forms. In the process of writing and application of Chinese characters, the unique and independent calligraphy art of all nationalities in the world has gradually emerged.