1. Chinese Calligraphy – session 1
The Art Beyond The Language
23/10/07, Chinese Chess & Calligraphy Society

2. What is Chinese calligraphy?
What is calligraphy?
"the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and skillful manner"
What is Chinese calligraphy?
Shufa 書法 "the way of writing“

3. What does chinese calligraphy looks like?
The main styles:
Seal Script Clerical Script
Semi-cursive Script
Cursive Script Regular Script
篆书 隶书 行书 草书 楷书

4. Liu style

5. Essential Stationeries
Brush:
Ink:
Ink stone:
Rice paper:

6. Postures and holding the Brush
Proper posture for writing while seated
Proper posture for writing while standing
Raised wrist method
Holding the brush
Suspended wrist method

7. Basic eight brush strokes
Dot
Dash
Perpendicular downstroke
Downstroke to the left

8. Basic eight brush strokes
Wavelike stroke
Hook
Upstroke to the right
Bend or twist

9. The general order of writing strocks
1.From left to right
2.From upper to lower
3.From outside to inside
gǎn 敢
dare

10. Chinese calligraphy! Learn to become a calligrapher yourself!
What we can achieve……
Having a keen eye for the beautiful
Learn to become a calligrapher yourself!
Chinese calligraphy!