The Essence of China's Calligraphy

There are three essences of China's calligraphy: creating style, expressing beauty and expressing meaning. From the artistic point of view, it is important to express beauty.

This beauty itself has rich connotations and external manifestations, such as architectural beauty, formal beauty, brushwork beauty, style beauty, brushwork beauty, performance beauty, language beauty, narrative beauty and so on. Calligraphy is a means to express the tension of words, and it is the most direct and vivid way to give words the meaning of beauty, and words are the records of history and culture, so calligraphy itself contains the track of historical evolution and the outline of cultural events. Because of this, calligraphy has extremely high artistic value and historical value.

Calligraphy has both Dao and Shu. The way of calligraphy comes from the existence of calligraphy itself, which turns language into words, beautifies words to show the charm of words, and records and expresses the description of things with words. The skill of calligraphy is the embodiment of the skill and ability of calligraphy, which makes the calligrapher, the owner of calligraphy, not only know clearly the shape of the written words, but also be familiar with the pen, ink, paper and application techniques, so that the expression process runs smoothly and the expression result can partially or completely express the author's mood and expectation. The main body of calligraphy is writing, which is the intangible carrier of calligraphy and the true meaning of establishing the meaning of calligraphy.