Chinese Caligraphy
August 31, 2008
Last week we were introduced to Chinese Caligraphy (毛笔字). You can the results of my efforts above. Whilst my characters may be a long way off artistic excelence, we had great fun. There are so many sides to learning Chinese that I had never appreciated.
I think the artistic gene, at least the one that involves using a paintbrush, passed me by. My brother and sisters seem to be able to pick up a paintbrush and just produce magnificent work. Clearly more practice is required on my part.
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2 comments
on 09.05.08 at 13:08:10
Hi Bill,
Chinese script looks very artistic. I wonder how much more time it takes to write the same word in English & Chinese. Each alphabet seems to have many strokes.
Have fun
on 09.06.08 at 08:20:01
@ShriNagesh: Thanks. For me it takes forever to write a single character. However, watching someone who has grown up writing the language is a completely different story.
But, interestingly, when you see English and Chinese versions of the same text side by side, the english appears much longer. Maybe you have to write less to convey the same meaning in Chinese. Either that, or some of the meaning is lost in translation.
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