Gourmet gift

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

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

It is he that giveth salvation unto who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.

Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;

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

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

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.

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

Chinese calligraphy are different from other calligraphy works. Chinese calligraphy is painted by special calligraphy paper (Xuan paper), special brush and special ink.

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