Special birthday gift

Chinese people sometimes like to give expensive special birthday gifts. Chinese people think the more expensive special birthday gift they give, the more they care. That's actually not a good habit. A great special birthday gift should be expressing your thought and not costing a fortune.

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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.

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.

I will sing a new song unto thee, O upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.

I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.

I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

Happy is that people, that is in such a yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.

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.During the 4000 years of Chinese history, Chinese calligraphy is the sole of Chinese culture.

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.

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