The art form of Chinese characters

The art forms of Chinese characters mainly include calligraphy, seal cutting, artistic calligraphy, artistic calligraphy, etc.

1. Calligraphy:

Calligraphy can be divided into Chinese calligraphy, Mongolian calligraphy, Arabic calligraphy, etc. Among them, Chinese calligraphy is a traditional art unique to Chinese characters and is known as the incomparable art. It can be used in font design, stone inscriptions, pattern design and many other aspects. Calligraphy is a traditional art unique to China.

Chinese characters were created by the working people. They began to use pictures to record events. After thousands of years of development, they evolved into today’s writing. And because our ancestors invented writing with a brush, calligraphy came into being. Throughout the ages, Chinese characters are mainly written with brushes. As for other writing forms, such as hard pens, finger writing, etc., the writing rules are not completely different from those of brush characters, but are basically the same.

2. Seal cutting:

Seal cutting is one of the traditional Chinese arts. Refers to the art of engraving seals. Because when engraving, seal characters are first made on the printing material, and then carving is done, so it is called it. Generally, a knife is used to carve on stone, teeth, horns, wood and other sealing materials; for metal seals, the impression is usually carved first and then cast. Qin and Han seals are recognized as the origins of seal cutting art, and many seal cutting schools emerged in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

3. Artistic calligraphy:

Artistic calligraphy is text that has been processed, beautified and decorated. It is a kind of writing art that uses decorative techniques to beautify words. It is a practical font processed by art. Fonts are neat, eye-catching, beautiful, and easy to read. They are an indispensable tool for publicity and education, such as banners and slogans, exhibitions, product packaging and decoration, and the binding of newspapers, magazines, and books. They are all inseparable from artistic calligraphy.

4. Artistic fonts:

Artistic fonts are deformed fonts based on ordinary characters and artistically processed by professional font designers. The characteristics of the font are in line with the meaning of the text, beautiful and interesting, easy to recognize, and eye-catching. It is a font deformation with a pattern or decorative meaning. Artistic calligraphy can make reasonable deformation and decoration of the strokes and structure of Chinese characters based on the meaning, shape and structural characteristics of Chinese characters.