China's calligraphy is an original performance art of the Han nationality, which is known as: silent poetry, invisible dance; Painless paintings, silent music. In June 2008, it was selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list. China people have always regarded poetry, calligraphy and painting as one family, or they are of the same origin. In the past, people in China used a brush to write poems and compositions, and used a brush to write paintings and calligraphy. Naturally, they were a family.
China's calligraphy can reflect a person's comprehensive qualities such as spiritual temperament and cultural accomplishment. Whether it is a single character box or a multi-character combination box, the strength of the pen, the mastery and cooperation of the techniques of starting, accepting, turning and receiving the pen must be just right. For example, Oracle Bone Inscriptions should be concise, seal script should be rich in the rhyme of bells, ding and brushes, official script should have the essence of Wei Bei (regular script) in Qin and Han Dynasties, the beauty of pine and cypress, ancient cypress, running script and cursive script in Wei and Jin Dynasties, and it should be natural, elegant and beautiful, giving people the pleasure of arousing and watching.
Development course:
Since ancient times, China has said that "calligraphy and painting are of the same origin", because the earliest source of words is pictures, and calligraphy and painting are brothers, born from the same root, and have many internal relations. The origin of Chinese characters is the original painting, and primitive people express themselves in the form of "painting" in their lives. Slowly changed from the original picture to "ideographic symbol"
About BC14th century, late Yin and Shang dynasties. "Ideographic symbol" evolved into a relatively stereotyped "Oracle Bone Inscriptions". This is considered to be the first form of Chinese characters. The characters carved on the tortoise shell of animal bones and found in Yin ruins are considered as the direct ancestors of "modern Chinese characters", which can prove the continuation of Chinese civilization. For thousands of years, Middle Easterners have been unable to read the hieroglyphics of their ancestors. Only modern people in China can understand some "Oracle Bone Inscriptions" in Shang Dynasty.
The words on these tortoise shells were originally used to predict good luck or bad luck. Ancient people thought that if some problems about diseases, dreams, hunting, weather, etc. were carved on tortoise shells, and then tortoise shells and animal bones were burned, then the cracks could be judged by fortune tellers according to the shapes and directions of these cracks. This is the ancestor of the modern Chinese character "Oracle Bone Inscriptions". Up to now, there are more than 5,000 species of "Oracle Bone Inscriptions". And there are more than 1000 kinds that can be interpreted.