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