The origin of calligraphy

Calligraphy is a unique art form in China. If Korean and Japanese calligraphy is counted, it is a unique art in China cultural circle. There are two main reasons, one is Chinese characters, and the other is writing brush. Both of them appeared on the land of China. Chinese characters have diverse structures and forms, and have unique artistic beauty. The combination of blank space and rich colors brings people a rare visual enjoyment. Even today, we can feel comfortable seeing seal script works thousands of years ago. The second is the writing brush, which is also the great creation of our ancestors. Brush endows Chinese characters with richer shapes, smoother and more feminine forms, which hard pen can't create.

Calligraphy is almost as long as our history. In this process, many outstanding calligraphers appeared and created many kinds and schools of calligraphy. Among them, the fonts are Oracle Bone Inscriptions, inscriptions on bronze and seal script. There are regular script, running script, official script and cursive script. These fonts have their own characteristics. Here is a brief introduction to the basic characteristics of these fonts.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the oldest writing in China, and its source is ancient divination. Because people in the Yin and Shang Dynasties believed in ancestral gods, divination prevailed all over the country, especially as a royal family. Shang Wang himself is the representative of the ancestor god, and he can predict almost everything. Because it is carved on the Oracle bones with a knife, the font is simple, elegant and natural, as if you can feel the piety of people when divining thousands of years ago from the frustration of the pen.