The content of eight-character calligraphy works can include:
The sky is bright and the air is clear and the wind is gentle;
The best is as good as water and the virtue is carried;
Sincerity Wherever you go, the metal and stone are open;
Like orchids and bamboos in the high wind;
Indifferent, bright and peaceful, far-reaching;
Continuous self-improvement and great virtue;
It is great to be open to all rivers;
If you are careful to end as you began, you will never fail;
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Calligraphy (calligraphy, handwriting) is a form of artistic expression that shows the beauty of words. In a broad sense, calligraphy refers to the writing rules of text symbols.
Calligraphy can be divided into Chinese calligraphy, Mongolian calligraphy, Arabic calligraphy, etc. Among them, Chinese calligraphy is a traditional art unique to Chinese characters and is known as wordless poetry, invisible dance, and pictureless art. Paintings, etc., it can be used in font design, stone inscriptions, pattern design and many other aspects.
In life, the word calligraphy also has the following meanings: first, the name of a certain writing work or the collective name of all writing works; second, an art category, generally referring to the art of writing Chinese characters. Kang Youwei said in "Guang Yi Zhou Shuang Ji": "The structure of Tang language is the same as Song Dynasty's interest." From this, it can be seen that the calligraphy of the Tang Dynasty has the highest and most rigorous standards, and the achievements of calligraphy in the Tang Dynasty are also the highest in the history of calligraphy.
Calligraphy is a traditional art unique to China. Chinese characters were created by the working people. They began to use pictures to record events. After thousands of years of development, they evolved into today's characters. And because our ancestors invented writing with brushes, calligraphy came into being. From ancient times to the present, Chinese characters have been mainly written with brushes. , as for other writing forms, such as hard pen, finger writing, etc., the writing rules are not completely different from those of calligraphy, but are basically the same.