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These became rapidly desired after being first used as inkstone. It bears distinct markings such as bands of ripples with varying shades. The stone is crystalline and looks like jade. These stones have become increasingly rare and are difficult to…

The creator of this piece of calligraphy, Su Shi, was accused of literary slander and banished to Huangzhou (黃州) when he wrote this piece of calligraphy. He created this piece during his 3rd year of exile, during the Han Shi Festival (literally Cold…

The Thousand Character Classic (千字文), is a set of non-repetitive one thousand characters that have been used to help children learning Chinese characters since the sixth century onwards. It is sung just like how children sing the "alphabet song" when…

This scroll is one that mounted three works of Wang Xizhi together. Each of them is a passage that he wrote about or to one of his relatives or friends. Firstly, Ping-an is one written for his cousin. He-ru is to greet his friend and to tell him…

In this short letter written in running script, Wang Xizhi sent a greeting to a friend after a snowfall. In the piece, much of the brushwork appears round and blunt, the dots and hooked strokes not revealing the tip of the brush. The characters are…

Tsang Tsou Choi, who named himself and widely known as the "Kowloon Emperor", is a street graffiti in Hong Kong. He creates graffiti creations of Chinese characters written with a brush on public walls on the stories. It tells the story of oneself…

Wang Xianzhi (王獻之), courtesy name Zijing (子敬), was a famous Chinese calligrapher of the Eastern Jin dynasty. He was the seventh and youngest son of the famed Wang Xizhi. Wang inherited his father's talent for the art. His style is more fluid than his…

Known as the greatest Chinese calligrapher in history, Wang Xizhi (王羲之) is regarded as one of the Four Talented Calligraphers (四賢). He mastered every writing form and style, especially running script (行書). It is also said that some of Xizhi's…

These brushes are made of weasel hair and are generally harder and have greater flexibility. Weasel hair brushes are usually yellow in colour, sometimes with a reddish tint, and comes with a glossy texture. Brushes made out of weasel hair from…

Yan Zhenqing (顏真卿) was a notable calligrapher and a governor of the Tang Dynasty (唐朝). He mastered Regular script (楷書) as well as Cursive script (草書) but was famous for his "Yan" writing style and the only calligrapher who is paralleled with the…