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  2. Thousand Character Classic - Wikipedia

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    The Thousand Character Classic has been used as a primer for learning Chinese characters for many centuries. It is uncertain when the Thousand Character Classic was introduced to Korea. The book is noted as a principal force—along with the introduction of Buddhism into Korea—behind the introduction of Chinese characters into the Korean ...

  3. Copybook (calligraphy) - Wikipedia

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    In ancient times, famous calligraphy was carved in stone. Later, people made rubbings of the stone on paper so that they could copy and learn the famous calligraphy.. Emperor of the Liang dynasty Xiao Yan made a rubbing of one thousand characters from the famous calligrapher Wang Xizhi, and made sentences and paragraphs for the one thousand characters, which became known as the Thousand ...

  4. Chinese calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    Chinese calligraphy is the writing of Chinese characters as an art form, ... Hong Kong Taiping Book Department Publishing 香港太平書局出版: Hong Kong, 1978.

  5. Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts - Wikipedia

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    Many East Asian scripts can be written horizontally or vertically. Chinese characters, Korean hangul, and Japanese kana may be oriented along either axis, as they consist mainly of disconnected logographic or syllabic units, each occupying a square block of space, thus allowing for flexibility for which direction texts can be written, be it horizontally from left-to-right, horizontally from ...

  6. Wang Xizhi - Wikipedia

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    Wang Xizhi (Chinese: 王羲之; courtesy name: Yishao (逸少); c. 303 – c. 361) was a Chinese politician and writer from the Jin dynasty (266–420) known for his mastery of Chinese calligraphy. He is often regarded as the greatest calligrapher in Chinese history.

  7. Lantingji Xu - Wikipedia

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    The Lantingji Xu (traditional Chinese: 蘭亭集序; simplified Chinese: 兰亭集序; pinyin: Lántíngjí Xù; lit. 'Preface to the Poems Collected from the Orchid Pavilion'), or Lanting Xu ("Orchid Pavilion Preface"), is a piece of Chinese calligraphy work generally considered to be written by the well-known calligrapher Wang Xizhi (303–361) from the Eastern Jin dynasty (317–420).

  8. Four Treasures of the Study - Wikipedia

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    The Four Treasures is expressed in a four-word couplet: "The four treasures of the study: Brush, Ink, Paper, Inkstone." (Chinese: 文房四寶:筆、墨、紙、硯; pinyin: Wén fáng sì bǎo: bǐ, mò, zhǐ, yàn) [4] [5] In the couplet mentioned, each of the Treasures is referred to by a single epithet; however, each of these are usually known by a compound name (i.e.

  9. Thousand Character Classic in Cursive Script by Zhao Ji

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    The Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Grading Dictionary (中国书画定级图典) states: "The calligraphy adopts the cursive script method of the Tang dynasty artist Huai Su, but it has already achieved a level of mastery that allows for free and versatile application. The brushwork is both vigorous and smooth.

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