What is the status of art and calligraphy in China?

Calligraphy is closely related to China people's daily life and civilization accumulation for thousands of years. It strengthens the convenience of communication, ethnic cultural identity and cultural memory, and maintains the continuous inheritance and development of Chinese culture. At the same time, calligraphy has always maintained an important position in the art history of China. In the most quintessential part of literati art and the most exquisite part of China people's artistic aesthetic psychology, calligraphy embodies its irreplaceable value and typical characteristics-the invention and development of Chinese characters, which has always witnessed the development of China people's aesthetic creativity and the evolution of aesthetic fashion. At present, calligraphy has a key contribution, that is, as an art form with Chinese characters as the medium, it provides an appropriate and emotional way for today's China people, which makes it more possible for us to communicate with the traditional culture of China. Although the popular Chinese characters in Chinese mainland have been simplified, they still maintain a powerful cultural memory function, and people in China still use Chinese characters. This is of great significance to China, where the traditional culture has been repeatedly impacted and the concepts of "new" and "old" are seriously opposed after the May 4th Movement.