Tag: Chinese calligraphy
How Beijing’s Character Simplification Campaign Severed China from Its Own Civilization
Look carefully at two versions of the same character. The first is 愛, the traditional form of the Chinese...
Changsha: City of Poets, Scholars, and Ancient Kilns
Changsha sits at the confluence of mountain and river, with Yuelu Mountain rising to its west and the...
Tang Emperors in Stone: The First Stele of Xi’an’s Stele Forest
By Jingrong A stele that greets every visitor At the entrance of the Xi’an Stele Forest Museum...
Chinese Handwriting and Traditional Chinese Characters
In a very remote age, during the time of the development of language and writing, the first written characters...