Technically speaking, the art of calligraphy depends on how the writer uses skills and imagination to show charm in strokes. These strokes with different expressions form a beautiful structure. After writing, you can't add pens or fill colors. The most important thing is to pay attention to the spatial symmetry between strokes, which needs years of practice and training to achieve. However, in understanding the basic nature of calligraphy art, proficiency in writing and aesthetic cultivation are not the only basic elements. In the past, in the upper class of South Korea, learning calligraphy was considered as a necessary process for cultivated people to cultivate their sentiments. The practical function of calligraphy as a means of writing or communication is often not as important as the philosophical significance of writing quality.
Like all other brilliant arts in ancient Korea, the basic inspiration of calligraphy comes from nature. Every stroke and every point of a word symbolizes the form of a natural object. Korean calligraphers, like those in ancient China, realized that just like every branch of a living tree has life, every stroke of a good word must be alive when writing. This is the essential difference between Chinese characters in calligraphy and printed characters. Ideographic Chinese characters have an abstract and visual feature, which further strengthens the visual appeal of calligraphy, because it allows calligraphers who have reached the perfect artistic level to express their thoughts almost infinitely, just like great painters in painting.