The Chinese New Year started on Feb 3rd, this year. A friend of mine, Lei, wrote Chinese words signifying prosperity, happiness, blessing, beauty, luck and many more in beautiful calligraphy. She was kind enough to allow me to use a picture of her art in my blog here.
Calligraphy is the art of writing, with strokes and curves different from the average hand writing. A long long time ago, long before typewriters, computer fonts and printers, writers would use their quill (and other ancient writing instruments) to pen their work. The writers created their manuscripts in fancy hand-written fonts that added as much value to the only version 'published', in a sense.
To this day, calligraphy is used on certificates, awards, wedding invitations and other printed artifacts to signify a special occasion or writing. Here's a font I learnt a few years ago. Of course, it can look a lot more elegant when written with a calligraphy pen, usually with a flat or straight tip used to create different effects and angles in the letters.
Calligraphy is the art of writing, with strokes and curves different from the average hand writing. A long long time ago, long before typewriters, computer fonts and printers, writers would use their quill (and other ancient writing instruments) to pen their work. The writers created their manuscripts in fancy hand-written fonts that added as much value to the only version 'published', in a sense.
To this day, calligraphy is used on certificates, awards, wedding invitations and other printed artifacts to signify a special occasion or writing. Here's a font I learnt a few years ago. Of course, it can look a lot more elegant when written with a calligraphy pen, usually with a flat or straight tip used to create different effects and angles in the letters.
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