中国书法英文版PPT[文字可编辑].ppt

Introduction ? Chinese calligraphy is a form of calligraphy widely practiced in China and revered in the Chinese cultural sphere, which often includes Japan, Taiwan, Korea and Vietnam. The calligraphic tradition of East Asia originated and developed from China. Chinese calligraphy and ink and wash painting are closely related, since they are accomplished using similar tools and techniques. styles of calligraphy Chinese English 甲骨文 oracle bone script 金文 篆书 bronze script seal script 隶书 草书 楷书 行书 clerical or offical script cursive or grass script regular or standard script running or semi-cursive script oracle bone script Oracle bone script Because turtle shells as well as bones were used, the oracle bone script is also sometimes called shell and bone script. ? As the majority of oracle bones bearing writing date to the late Shang dynasty, oracle bone script essentially refers to a Shang script. People believed that the shells told powers of their gods, so that is why it is called Oracle Bone Script. ? Oracle bone script was the form of Chinese characters used on oracle bones — animal bones or turtle plastrons used in pyromantic divination — in the late 2nd millennium BCE, and is the earliest known form of Chinese writing. ? bronze script bronze script ? Chinese bronze inscriptions, also commonly referred to as Bronzeare writing in a variety of Chinese scripts on Chinese ritual bronzes such as zhōng bells and dǐng tripodal cauldrons from the Shang dynasty to the Zhou dynasty and even later. Early bronze inscriptions were almost always cast (that is, the writing was done with a stylus in the wet clay of the piece-mold from which the bronze was then cast),