Friday, July 8, 2016

Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (13) Mountain of flowers and fruits - 花果山

In the famous Chinese novel 《Pilgrimage to the West》, the Monkey King lived with many other monkeys in "Mountain of flowers and fruits". Chinese describe it as a paradise.

The Chinese for Mountain of flowers and fruit is 花果山。

花 is flower, its Big Seal script is


just like a flower.

果 is fluit, its Shell Bone script is


just like a fruit tree.

山 is mountain, its Shell Bone script is
just like a mountain.

In normal writing, people write the three characters up down, left to right, or right to left in same size. It is good. However, how about to change a little bit as following


 Now the root of flower and fruit are in the mountain, they form a mountain of flower and fruit.

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