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Chinese calligraphy is mysterious. Chinese symbols come from painting or drawing. Ancient Chinese people paint or draw some figures. As it evolves, it become in Japanese name.

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The greatest Chinese calligrapher Wang Xizhi improved his calligraphy a lot after he traveled from south part of China to the north. He said later that it is kind of waste of time to only study Mrs. Wei's calligraphy.

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 is not just writing Chinese characters. It is not just writing Chinese well.

You can really feel how the calligraphy felt when he was painting the art work.During the 4000 years of Chinese history, Chinese calligraphy is the sole of Chinese culture.

Calligraphy is now very popular. You can see a lot of people have calligraphy on their body. Art works contains calligraphy such as Chinese painting and Chinese calligraphy are great gift ideas and great decoration of rooms. Many people have calligraphy 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.

It is not just writing Chinese characters beautifully.As an art work, Chinese calligraphy carries the calligrapher's mood and thoughts.

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.

Chinese calligraphy are never been more popular in the western world. I met some people who practiced Chinese calligraphy for years and loved it, without even knowing what the characters meaning.Many people buy Chinese calligraphy works from us and then asked which side should be the top later.