Ancient Chinese Calligraphy
An Overview of the History!
Ancient Chinese Calligraphy has always been considered one of the purest art forms.The Chinese language is monosyllabic which means that each character written represents a word of an object or living form.
The earliest form of Chinese writing, dates back to 28th century BC. There are many myths but no solid facts as to what Chinese writing prior this time was actually like. Chinese writing has changed in styles, from the beginning of writing till this day. In China and other East Asian countries, writing is said to have been invented by 'Fu Hsi'. It was developed by two signs called 'ying' and 'yang, which represented positive and negative. The ying drawn was simple one line and the yang was a line with a gap in the middle.
Pictograms began from 2697 to 2596 BC. The Chinese character calligraphy styles developed from Pictorial pictograms to; shell and bone, chin wen, stone drum, chu chien, seal style, li, chang tsao, kai, hsing and tao.
The diagram below shows a pictogram of a couple of 9th century Chinese characters
Chinese Calligraphy Styles
- bone carving: Shang Dynasity 1700 to 1000 BC
- Large seal: Chou Dynastiy 1000 to 226 BC
- small seal: ch'in dynasity 226 to 206 BC
- standard: sull Dynasity AD 580 to now
referenced 'the art of chinese' Jean Long Stirling publication Com Ink, 'The story of writing' Andrew Robinson
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