| Do you like Chinese calligraphy? | |
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| Mar 26, 2007 22:20 |   |
 | Hi there, To many westerners, Chinese characteres are too difficult to write, let alone the calligraphy. What i wanna know is whether you are confused by those calligraphy works or just appreciate them like some painting works? ^_^  |
| Mar 26, 2007 22:21 | #1 |
| Another one : ) |
| Mar 26, 2007 22:32 | #2 |
| Yes, they are indeed a form of art. I like running hand of caligraphy, especially Sima Yan's. |
| Mar 27, 2007 13:59 | #3 |
| The calligraphy is an art. It is amazing. But the characters are already not good idea. Long time ago, when the mankind was illiteral they were a progressive way of writing and education. But today, when we have the opportunity to use phonetic letters (20, 30, 40, 50 or 70, BUT NOW FEW THOUSAND AS THE CHARACTERS!), it is very regressive to lose our young years of the life to learn "pictures". In fact the characters are already UNABLE to be EVEN PICTURES. We can see a tendency to phonetisation. Yes, we still can find some " pictures " (ideograms): 人，花...But today often we can see phonetisation with charachers like: 澳大利亚。。。It is really non-senseble. Therefor a lot of East people invent their own alphabets (Huns, Koreans) or they took some Western (Vietnamese)... And I will type my favourite facts: -A Chinese from some minority as uygurs or tatars is able to start use his letters just for few months. A Han-Chinese even for 20 years still can't read some characters as 篱 and can't write SOMETIMES EVEN simple words as : "脖子"。。。 -Native English speakers have to learn 26 letters. Native Russian speakers have to learn 33 leters. Later they DO NOT LOSE TIME to memorize them and can go on to learn something new - another foreigna language, some science, etc. In the same time Chinese children have to learn more then 8 000 character + LATIN ALPHABET (PINYIN)...It is terrible. |
| Mar 27, 2007 20:18 | #4 |
| Chinese Characters is really a unique art. If you really appreciate it and put your mind on it, it will be not so difficult as you think. |
| Mar 28, 2007 04:09 | #5 |
| Hi, I could not write Chinese calligraphy; but I think it is an elegant thing to do, just as playing the piano. |
| Mar 28, 2007 20:06 | #6 |
| It is an elegant and important part of Chinese culture and shouldn't be lost. I like to look at caligraphy, but not being able to read it, it has less impact on me than a painting. |
| Mar 28, 2007 21:49 | #7 |
| I want to learn it. Anybody in the forum can do it?? |
| Mar 29, 2007 16:13 | #8 |
| My lady friend wrote out her Chinese name for me in traditional characters over the weekend as she told me the story of her teacher making her write her name "10 thousand times" as a punishment. Her name is intricate and looks beautiful in the characters. But GEEEEESH! I'd hate to have to sign a real estate contract with a name like that. I can already feel the writer's cramp! ;) |
| Mar 30, 2007 19:25 | #9 |
| "If you really appreciate it and put your mind on it, it will be not so difficult as you think." Well, it means that many people do not appreciate it, because when they are trying to write some popular words (for example the name of some minority or even - country) they are wondering: "Oh...which one was the characters over here?..." The characters are not practical. Therefor WE HAVE TO USE LATIN ALPHABET to can TYPE them...Therefor one of the impossible things in this world is A TRUE CHINESE KEYBOARD :)))))) |
| Mar 30, 2007 19:34 | #10 |
| "It is an elegant and important part of Chinese culture and shouldn't be lost." Yes, the milions of illiterate Chinese because of this "elegantism" is a part of Chinese society as well. Some statistics says that around 130 000 000 of the people here can not write (it is 9 - 10 % of the population). In the same time in Australia only 1% of the population is illiteral. The simple fact is - it is easy to learn 26 letters, but it is not easy to learn 5 000 - 9 000 "pictures". |
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