Chinese calligraphy

The Chinese calligraphy (Chinese书法, Pinyin shūfǎ, Japanese Shodo书 道, ) is an art movement that is closely related to the Chinese painting. In both arts are the same tools that uses four treasures of the scholar's room, : writing brush, ink stick, ink stone and paper. Therefore, it is not surprising that famous Chinese calligraphers often were important artists.

One of the most famous Chinese calligrapher Wang Xizhi was whose style after more than a millennium, today is the basis of Kalligrafieunterrichts. The calligraphy was seen as an important part of training and should also allow conclusions about the personality. Wang Xizhi replaced the rectangular duct by italic lines, which allows individual design. Since then, the calligraphy in China was next to the Wei Qi game ( in the West under the name Go known), of painting and music as a fourth of the Arts. 四 艺:琴,棋,书,画

The high prestige of calligraphy is demonstrated, among other things, that even Chinese emperors were trying to excel in calligraphy. The most it brought in this art of Emperor Song Huizong, whose style slim gold (瘦 金, Shoujin ) a high point of Chinese calligraphy represents.

Basis of Chinese calligraphy are the " eight principles of the character永" (永字八法, Yǒngzì Bāfǎ, Yǒng means " eternity " ):

侧cè, namely点diǎn, point

勒lè, namely Heng横, cross-

努nǔ, namely直/竖zhí / Shu, straight

趯tì, namely钩Gou hook

策cè, namely挑Tiao, Taking Off

掠Lüe, namely Pie撇, oblique

啄Zhuo, namely短 撇duǎn Pie, Pecking

磔Zhe, namely nà捺, pressing forward

The eight principles are the key basic strokes of the calligrapher; they describe the five strokes that make up the character.

Categories of Chinese calligraphy

Semi- cursive

Grass script

Clerical script

Regular script