Chinese Calligraphy

Chinese CalligraphyWritten Chinese can call upon about 40,000 characters, many of which originated some 6,000 years ago as little pictures of everyday objects used by the ancients to communicate with one another. To convey more abstract ideas or concepts, the Chinese stylized and combined their pictographs. For instance, the character for mana straight back above two strong legsbecomes, with the addition of a head and shoulders and arms held sternly akimbo, the

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