Chinese letter and symbol is mysterious. Chinese symbols come from painting or drawing. Ancient Chinese people paint or draw some figures. As it evolves, it become Chinese letter and symbol.
Chinese letter and symbol is now very popular. You can see a lot of people have Chinese letter and symbol on their body. Art works contains Chinese letter and symbol such as Chinese painting and Chinese calligraphy are great gift ideas and great decoration of rooms. Many people have Chinese letter and symbol on their t-shirts.
Chinese culture have a great influence on cultures of the neighborhood countries such as Japan and Korea. These countries are still using Chinese characters and Chinese letter writing more or less in their everyday lives.
Most Japanese calligraphy or Korean calligraphy actually are Chinese calligraphy.
Chinese calligraphy are different from other calligraphy works. Chinese calligraphy is painted by special calligraphy paper (Xuan paper), special brush and special ink. As an art work, Chinese calligraphy carries the calligrapher's mood and thoughts. You can really feel how the calligraphy felt when he was painting the art work.
Chinese calligraphy come from writing Chinese characters. The Chinese characters come from the painting. At the very beginning, people have an intuition about writing Chinese characters well. But later, as they found that Chinese characters have something more than just a good looking, Chinese calligraphy was born. The invention of Chinese brushes greatly pushed the development of Chinese calligraphy as an art.
Chinese calligraphy are popular in China for thousands of years. People decorate rooms with Chinese calligraphy just like painting. And outside of the rooms, you can see Chinese calligraphy works in tablets and sign of shops everywhere in China. In China, it's an unwritten regulation to have good Chinese calligraphers to write notes, signs and anything of events, small or big.
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