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History of Calligraphy
Chinese calligrphy started in China about 4,600 years ago. Scholars and wise men created chinese calligraphy to write down laws and poems and scripture. The people back then didn't have paper so they had to use the bone of the animals that lived near them. Back then, only scholars were allowed to read chinese calligraphy. Commoners who lived in the villages were not allowed to read them as they were not "worthy" to. Chinese calligraphy was not only characters, chinese artists also paint paintings of animals and scenery of things around them. For example, if it was scenery that the artist was painting, then the artist might paint a small village with a boat and a dock. The painting would take place in the past of course of the uniquness of chinese calligraphy would disappear. Chinese calligraphy also has to be written in a certain way. The strokes always go from left to right to top to bottom. The characters always have to be written with the correct number of strokes. If a character has 3 stokes but the writer paints it with 6, then the character wouldn't look right.
The word above is chinese for wisdom and is an example of Chinese Calligraphy.
Before, Chinese characters looked more like pictures rather than characters but over the thousands of years, have evolved into strokes real characters. Throughout almost each dynasty, chinese calligraphy has changed.
