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Article: Different Strokes: The Chinese Art of Writing.(calligraphy)(Brief Article)
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- Highlights for Children
- Article date:
- August 1, 2000
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Do you like your handwriting well enough to frame it and hang it on a wall? To the Chinese, writing is an art called calligraphy.
Calligraphy is a popular hobby many Chinese children enjoy. Throughout Asia, Chinese calligraphy is admired just as much as painting.
Special equipment is necessary. Calligraphers use a brush made of animal hair attached to a bamboo shaft. Traditional Chinese ink does not come in a bottle but is dried into hard blocks. The best paper for calligraphy is made from rice and comes in long pieces called scrolls. Calligraphers never use erasers.
Every character has a ...