1. An Introduction to Chinese Calligraphy

2. Calligraphy
In ancient China, painting and calligraphy were the most highly appreciated arts
Produced almost exclusively by amateurs, aristocrats and scholar-officials who alone had the leisure to perfect the technique and sensibility necessary for great brushwork
Calligraphy was thought to be the highest and purest form of painting

3. Tools Brush pen, made of animal hair,
Black inks, made from pine soot and animal glue
Silk
Paper, after the invention in the 1st century
Original writings by famous calligraphers have been greatly valued throughout China's history and are mounted on scrolls and hung on walls in the same way that paintings are.

4. Wang Xizhi 4th century AD Lanting Xu
the preface of a collection of poems written by a number of poets

6. Basic strokes 8 strokes Dash or horizontal line
Perpendicular down stroke
Sweeping or falling left stroke
Sweeping or falling right stroke
Hook
Upright stroke to the right
Dot
Bend or twist

7. Rice Paper made of : rice plants mulberry paper edible paper
straw paper
used to make flat pieces of paper
made for scrolls

8. Easy to Understand Chinese
words in Chinese can look like its picture meaning

10. Write In Certain Strokes
left, right, up, down

11. What to make up a Chinese character:
strokes
王 山

12. A dash(a horizontal stroke)
一 二 三
A dash(a horizontal stroke)

13. 王
A perpendicular down stroke

14. 才
A hook

15. 木 林
A left-falling stroke and
a right-falling stroke

16. An upstroke to the right
法 习
An upstroke to the right

17. 点
A dot

18. 中国
Bend or twist

19. Proper Poster for Writing in brush