肉 (meat)
白 (white) 米 (rice)
How do you understand Chinese calligraphy ?
• 1 chinese characters evolved from pictures and signs it is also called the art of lines • 2 fist written over 5000 years ago • 3 is the oldest ,continous written language in the world • 4 is square-shaped
How do we know they evolved from pictures and signs ?
mouth
人
person
fire
tree
mountain
山
日
sun
月
moon
人
person
从
follow (two person)
众
crowd (three person)
木 林
archaeology(考 古)
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Five styles of chinese scripts
• 1 the seal script（篆书）
• 2the cursive script（草书） • 3 the official script（隶书） • 4 the regular script（楷书） • 5 the running script(行书)
the oracle bone script(甲骨文）
• the oldest chinese inscriptions are the oracle bone
script(甲骨文),most of the them were inscriptions on tortoise and animal bones of Shang dynasty.Now we have been found more than 4600 oracles,including 1000 recognized.
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• 1 emerged at the end of the Easter Han period
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There is an old country in the world, it's every word, is a beautiful painting, a beautiful poem
Nehru
-----Indian prime minister jawaharlal
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How do you understand Chinese calligraphy ?
The seal script
1 during the warring states period and pre-Qin time 2 mainly appeared on the bronze vessesls(青铜器) 3 including”Dazhuan(大篆) ”and “Xianzhuan(小篆)”
婚பைடு நூலகம்
marry
氏 日
dusk
if you got married, your world will be close to dusk
猜字谜（Guess they corresponding Chinese characters）
一人 (one person ) ,猜一个 字: 一人在内(one person inside) 猜一字: 一百减一 (one hundred minus one) 猜一个字: 八十八 (eighty eight) 猜一个字: 大（big）
At the begining of Qin Dynasty, The first emperor contended(主张) the idea that the written scripts should be standardized in form because The character forms different from area to area in zhou time ,it is said that Li Si(李斯) compiled and The script emerged finally.
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• The official script
• came into being during the period between the Qin and Han dynasties . • lays a fundation for the square shape of chinese characters
• 1 chinese characters evolved from pictures and signs it is also called the art of lines • 2 fist written over 5000 years ago • 3 is the oldest ,continous written language in the world • 4 is square-shaped
tree wood
本 呆
fundation idiot
森
forest
火 炎
fire
hot
焱 焚
flame
burning
日 昌
sun
prosperou s
晶
sparkle
明
旦
sunrise
horizon
bright tomorro w
女
wome n jian
奻
argument
nuan
姦
adultery
• The cursive script
• 1 originated from the Han dynasty • 2 smooth and lively with strokes flowing and characters liking togather. • 3 vary in size in the same pieces of the writing ,all of them seeingly dictated by the whims(奇想)