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Calligraphy and Culture

Calligraphy and Culture. 心正笔正. 柳公棬 “If the mind is right, the writing will be right.”. Qualities of Calligraphy.

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Calligraphy and Culture

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  1. Calligraphy and Culture

  2. 心正笔正 柳公棬 “If the mind is right, the writing will be right.”

  3. Qualities of Calligraphy • The aesthetic excellence of a piece of calligraphy is often determined by brushstroke, which is in turn judged by a set of abstract qualities that includes balance, vitality, strength, and texture. Much more than mere ink on paper, good calligraphy characters should feel alive and organic. The brushstrokes must be applied with skill, finesse, confidence, and speed.

  4. 風水 • A philosophy developed and applied today with the concepts of balance and harmony. The right feng shui can dramatically improve life due to the balance and harmony brought by the right configuration of location.

  5. Forms of Feng Shui • Traditional – The placement of a house or tomb affects the luck and well-being of those who live in the house or are interred in the tomb for the afterlife. • Modern – The placement of objects in a house affects the luck and well-being of those who live there.

  6. Balance • Yin – Passive, dark, feminine, downward-seeking, night-related, symbolized by water • Yang – active, light, masculine, upward-seeking, day-related, symbolized by fire

  7. Daoism and the Yin and Yang • The Taijitu symbol is associated with Daoist symbolism. The Yin (black) and Yang (white) partially encircle each other and are present in equal proportions. The “seed” of each is also present in the other, showing that each is equal to the other (called Tai Qi)

  8. Tai Qi Quan • Traditional Tai Qi training is intended to teach awareness of one's own balance and what affects it, awareness of the same in others, an appreciation of the practical value in one's ability to moderate extremes of behavior and attitude at both mental and physical levels, and how this applies to effective self-defense principles.

  9. Tai Qi and Balance • “double-weighted” – Collision of two like forces, yang with yang (ie: meeting brute force with brute force) • Students are taught to instead meet it in softness and follow the attack’s motion until the force of the attack exhausts itself (meeting yang with yin) • “single-weighted” – achieving the balance of yin/yang in combat

  10. “The soft and the pliable will defeat the hard and strong." - Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching • The aesthetic excellence of a piece of calligraphy is often determined by brushstroke, which is in turn judged by a set of abstract qualities that includes balance, vitality, strength, and texture. Much more than mere ink on paper, good calligraphy characters should feel alive and organic. The brushstrokes must be applied with skill, finesse, confidence, and speed.

  11. Conclusion • Feng Shui • Daoist Theory • Yin and Yang • Tai Qi Quan

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