Virtual traditional Chinese characters: virtual (Xu).
The appearance of virtual and real calligraphy has something to do with China's ancient aesthetic thought, which is the fundamental reason why calligraphy was born in China rather than anywhere else. It can be said that China's ancient cultural thoughts nourished the childhood of calligraphy.
Calligraphy is a highly abstract art, with lines as the basic expression language, which has strong generality and is the embodiment of emptiness. But at the same time, it takes Chinese characters as the writing object, and the ideographic characteristics of Chinese characters make it have realistic reference at the same time, which is the embodiment of reality. The combination of virtual and real calligraphy contains many factors of ancient philosophy, literature, music, painting and other disciplines, and the expression object is more unique, profound and profound.
The original meaning is generally considered to be a big earth mountain, which refers to the region and place, and also refers to the abandoned place after living.
Xu (Pinyin: X) is a first-class Chinese character. The oldest form of this word is the Warring States script, but it was also found in works before the Warring States period, such as The Book of Songs and The Book of Changes. "Xu" is a pictophonetic character, and the ancient glyph is pronounced by mountains and rivers; The original meaning is generally considered to be a big earth mountain, which refers to the region and place, and also refers to the abandoned place after living.
These meanings were later written as "market". "Xu" extends from the meaning of ruins to emptiness and emptiness, which is used in abstract meaning, then to emptiness, modesty, emptiness and falsehood, and also to physical weakness. It is also used as an adverb, meaning it has no effect or use.