Damei Longjiang calligraphy works are a group of excellent calligraphy works created by calligraphers in Heilongjiang Province with regional characteristics, national style and the flavor of the times. These works are based on the landscape, customs, history and culture of Heilongjiang River Basin, showing the unique charm and artistic value of Longjiang calligraphy.
Longjiang calligraphy has a long history. As early as the Neolithic Age, the ancestors of Heilongjiang River Basin used simple tools such as bone needles and stone tools to describe primitive characters and symbols. During the Liao and Jin Dynasties, the calligraphy art in Heilongjiang gradually flourished, and many well-known masterpieces appeared. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Longjiang calligraphy entered a brand-new stage, and a large number of outstanding calligraphers emerged, such as Zhang Daqian and Qi Baishi. Their works have been praised through the ages and become the precious cultural heritage of the Chinese nation.
Damei Longjiang's calligraphy works have both traditional charm and modern flavor. In the process of creation, calligraphers not only inherited the traditional techniques of the ancients, but also integrated their own innovative thinking, forming a unique Longjiang calligraphy style. In form, these works include traditional characters such as regular script, running script and cursive script, as well as ancient characters such as official script and seal script.
In content, there are poems and songs, famous sayings by famous artists and couplets. These works have both majestic momentum and delicate and graceful feelings, both rigorous and standardized structure and free and unrestrained brushwork, which fully shows the artistic charm of Longjiang calligraphy.
Calligraphy history:
China's calligraphy has a long history, including Shang, Western Zhou, Qin, Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing and Republic of China. Oracle Bone Inscriptions and bronze inscriptions appeared in the middle and late Shang Dynasty. From the late Shang Dynasty to the unification of China by Qin, the general trend of Chinese characters evolution was from complexity to simplicity. This evolution is reflected in the evolution of fonts and glyphs.
The consciousness of calligraphy art only appeared in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, but the formation and appearance of Chinese characters went through a long historical period at the same time. At present, the materials related to primitive Chinese characters are mainly the descriptive symbols left by primitive society on pottery.