Chinese alphabet is mysterious. Chinese symbols come from painting or drawing. Ancient Chinese people paint or draw some figures. As it evolves, it become chinese alphabet.
Chinese alphabet is now very popular. You can see a lot of people have chinese alphabet on their body. Art works contains chinese alphabet such as Chinese painting and Chinese calligraphy are great gift ideas and great decoration of rooms. Many people have chinese alphabet on their t-shirts.
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.
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.
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.
I met some people who practiced Chinese calligraphy for years and loved it, without even knowing what the characters meaning.
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