Gansu Yao Feng calligraphy

There are many different types of words in the world, which ultimately only aim at language communication. In this process, their parts of speech have already solidified. Compared with the world, China is unique. In the thousands of years of the Chinese nation, various fonts have appeared, such as seal script, golden script, regular script, running script and cursive script, and many calligraphers have also appeared. Later, the world copied calligraphers' masterpieces one after another, which made people lament the profoundness of China's traditional culture. So there are so many kinds of characters in the world, why is calligraphy culture unique to Chinese characters? I think there are several reasons:

According to historical records, the earliest Chinese character in China was Oracle Bone Inscriptions, while Oracle Bone Inscriptions was just drawn from nature, such as flowers, grasses, insects, fish, birds and animals. Because of its traces, China's Chinese characters began to evolve, and ideographic characters gradually developed. That is to say, the beauty of Chinese characters in China lies in its intangible feeling of beautiful things, which makes it easy for people to extrapolate and create a kind of calligraphy with unique feelings, not just blunt symbols like foreign English letters and western Arabic numerals. Moreover, the western language is superficial, not only without the beauty of image, but also without the beauty of image like Chinese characters. So other kinds of characters don't mention calligraphy culture.

Second, there is a brush as a vivid carrier of western calligraphy. It is not difficult to find that it is simply sketching and sketching. There are many repeated fonts, single expression form and little text diversity, which does not meet the artistic requirements. The west only needs a pen to meet the requirements of writing. China has a long history in ancient times, and its writing forms are different. Moreover, the writing brush appeared in China a long time ago. The shape of the brush is conical, which emphasizes the peaks in all directions. It can promote people to create all kinds of elegant and beautiful fonts through dry and wet changes. A writing brush can be kept for a long time for many people, without considering changing writing tools frequently. Therefore, the brush is the most vivid carrier.

Third, China has always attached importance to China's Confucian tradition since ancient times. In addition to doing a good job in topics and writing beautiful poems, the beautiful calligraphy of traditional literati can also become the capital for literati and Confucian scholars to show off. In addition, the art of calligraphy has also been valued by the rulers in a certain period of time. It is said that the art of calligraphy has a certain relationship with Emperor Han Ling of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Although the Chinese characters in the Han dynasty were basically unified and stable at that time, the art of Chinese characters has not attracted enough attention. Eunuchs at that time were very autocratic. In order to safeguard their own interests, the rulers set up large and small schools, strengthened ideological unity, and took calligraphy and painting as an important item of assessment. At that time, the practice of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty attracted the attention of the whole country, which made more and more people pay attention to calligraphy.

In a word, we have to admit that China's calligraphy culture is unique, which no country can compare with us. We should be proud of this, protect this unique calligraphy culture and stand among the nations of the world.