Calligraphy, literally "beautiful writing," has been appreciated as an art form in many different cultures throughout the world, but the stature of calligraphy in Chinese culture is unmatched. In ...

Calligraphy is one of China’s major visual arts, many painters and scholars were also accomplished calligraphers. The cultivation of artistic writing is only one of many practices that show how deeply ...

Still, nothing is more challenging than writing Chinese calligraphy, as each stroke has to be extremely precise, and the spacing of the characters must be planned accurately. “Some customers ...

The endless iterations of the Orchid Pavilion preface are both an emblem of Chinese culture, and a lens through which China views its past. In imperial China, prowess with a brush was a mark of ...

Mandarin is taught in schools using pinyin, a romanised, phonetic system of writing Chinese. There’s a brief introduction to how Chinese characters are formed and how calligraphy is still ...

A Hong Kong study has revealed that elderly people who dedicate more time to practising Chinese calligraphy have a ... externally focused tasks such as writing and observing and correcting errors ...

Our Chinese Calligraphy course requires no prior knowledge of Chinese language or Chinese writing skills. This course is suitable for anyone new to Calligraphy and for those who have experience with ...