{"id":135,"date":"2011-12-30T21:16:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T02:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scallender.info\/?p=135"},"modified":"2012-04-26T19:55:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T23:55:01","slug":"how-did-i-start-to-write-chinese-calligraphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scallender.info\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"How did I start to write Chinese Calligraphy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

After mastering the brush (filling in Chinese characters on practice books), Professor moved you to the 8 basic strokes.\u00a0 After a couple of weeks of copying Chinese characters, first by tracing from the 8 Basic Character Book<\/strong> and later you begin copying to the 8 Chinese square paper.\u00a0 When you were finished with the 8 Basic Character Book and Professor Young was satisfied with your writing, he would move you to the Chinese Character Construction Book<\/strong>.\u00a0 This book would teach you how to construct various Chinese characters of different complexities. Throughout Professor Young\u2019s classes, he demonstrated many times and on an individual basics.<\/p>\n

Once you learned the 8 Basic Character and Chinese Character Construction, Professor Young moved you to copying Chinese classics.\u00a0 Everyone would start with the Printed style (Kai-Shu).\u00a0 The teacher wanted you to be well rounded so he would teach two of the most famous Kai-Shu classics by the famous Chinese calligraphers: Yen Chen-Ching and Liu Kung-Chuan.\u00a0 After Kai-Shu the students were moved to either Shing-Shu (Running or Cursive style) or Li-Shu (Official style) depending on the individual student.\u00a0 Professor wanted me to be more disciplined and write more slowly so he taught me Li-shu first then later Running style.\u00a0 The last style to learn was the Seal style (Chuan-shu).\u00a0 Our class was made up of different levels of students from beginners to advanced.<\/p>\n

There are some variation of each style and also many calligraphers mixed styles such as Shing-Kai (mixture of Running style & Printed style) or Shing-Li (mixture of Running & Official style).<\/p>\n

Below I have two examples of Kai-Shu written by \u00a0Yen Chen-Ching and Liu Kung-Chuan<\/p>\n

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A great reference book on Chinese Calligraphy below:<\/p>\n

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Below is the manual of Liu Kung-Chuan that I used to practice from.<\/p>\n

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Below is Li-Shu (Official style) – famous Li Chi Bei<\/p>\n

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