The house of Babel

April 15, 2008

The Balance Beauty of Chinese Calligrahpy

Filed under: Chinese, general thoughts — admin @ 8:00 pm

For foreign people, when they study Chinese, how to write the Hanzi always annoys everybody. A lot of people have no idea what Hanzi means.

Generally, you can take one character as a picture in a square. You have to pay attention to the balance in the square. Maybe you can think about that when you do something, you have to pay attention to the people around you. If you lose the balance, the beauty will be destroyed.

square

square

You probably will ask, there are so many styles of calligraphy, how to master the marrow of that? The spirit is the same. Every style of calligraphy has to pay attention to the balance beauty in the square.

styles of calligraphy

styles of calligraphy (From 汉字 - Wikipedia)

After you get used to the square, then you can throw away the square. You can write one big character in one paper. In such time, in your brain, you still have to think about the balance beauty on the paper.

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