Your videos on Chinese Calligraphy and its history are well done and informative. Thank you for posting them.

Happy Ostara! May you be blessed with love, peace, wealth, and good health!

I've been practicing Chinese calligraphy since 4th Grade and my writing is improved as time goes by. I was so interested in this topic. Thanks for reporting this.

I will take tea now too.

A note on "simplified" characters in Chinese calligraphy: Many "simplified" characters, such as 无 (無), are better described as "variants" as they have been in use for roughly two millennia. Other simplified characters are often derived from and essentially identical to their "traditional" cursive (see 车) and running script (see 问) counterparts. That said, I have twice encountered calligraphers in the PRC unable to write my Chinese surname, 莊 zhuang, as they are accustomed to writing the simplified form 庄, which is itself nearly identical to an old variant (庒). They both incidentally added a "grass" radical 艸 to the top of 庒 thereby creating a non-existent character! (莊, whose basic meaning is "farmstead/village/manor," consists of the semantic component 艸 and the phonetic element 壯.)

@quach8quach907

2 жыл бұрын

Words are very important. CHOOSE your words carefully. "Other simplified characters are often derived from and essentially identical to their "traditional" cursive (see 车)" The are NOT cursive. They are "shorthand". Let me give you an example. "cuz" in Ebonics is shorthand for "cousin" or "because". "Shorthand" itself is a language, used by secretaries before the invention of the magnetic tape recorder, and even after. With the invention of the magnetic tape recorder, shorthand wanes. And it's retarded. Compare 车 and 車. The "original" is a perfect glyph of chariot form an aerial view. 2 wheels, 1 axle, and a box.

I didn't know that Deng Shiru could live 1644 - 1912 is over 2 centuries! I believe it was the longevity of Ch'ing dynasty.

Amazing, I believe the gods work with us each and every day even if we don't pray. I have been doing divination for many years. I recently got I Ching. I've loved the Chinese culture all my life and things have found their way to me over the years. But reading the book of changes has made me want to learn to speak Chinese again. I have done English calligraphy throughout the years, not very good. Just to write letters and such. But I recently bought a few mats that look like ink when you use water so you can practice painting and it dries in a few minutes. I've also been branching out in other religions and the Tao has found me through the book of changes. I have Fallin in love with the philosophy and way of life. I often thought of being a monk as a child. Odiously I would be a nun, but I thought that was the simple life. But I feel that that lifestyle has still found me even in the busy modern world. I love how everything can be a meditation and it's not just scribbling words of a page. You're connecting with the movements and the rhythm of life through the letters and activating their sacred geometry through each one. Thank you for this compelling video and giving me some other things to look up. My husband has talked about Go a few times. Now I guess that's something else for us to do. We were playing Viking chess a lot when we first got together and for some reason we stopped.

Well done! 👍

It's a real beauty. Thank you for the video.

Great video.

I'm so stupid. I'm Vietnamese-American. I have to learn Chinese as Vietnamese is at least 50% Chinese. I use modern computer databases. Somewhere on the Internet, there is a list of all Chinese characters and its frequency of use. Geniusly, I figured out that you only need 1,000 characters to understand 90% of the Chinese vocabulary. I re-invented the wheel of needing to only learn 1,000 words!

What are your thoughts about Japanese using there own from of simplified characters such 学 instead of 學。

@teawitherping7126

2 жыл бұрын

I think all things happen for a reason-it makes computing easier to use alphabets

I'm smart enough to know that you only need 3,000 characters to understand Chinese. It's called Kanji! Japan figured that one out. No need to re-invent the wheel.