Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (33) From Ape to Apple - 从猿到手机时代

The small seal script for character Human is

which looks like an ape.

Here is my artwork,

The leftmost is the character Human, an ape. The ape gradually straightens his back until he completely straightened up in the fourth one from the left. You have seen similar diagram of "Human evolution" in museums.

However, we human have evolved further to the rightmost one. Why? Because everyone is watching his or her cell phone (Apple here is iPhone).

The diagrams of Human evolution in museums are out of date.

Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (32) Dragon Dance - 舞龙

Dragon dance is one of the most import activity in Chinese festivals, especially Spring Festival.

The characters in this artwork are

1, The clerical script for the Dance is

The top is a man's upper body with decorations, the bottom are his two legs.

2, The small seal script for character Dragon is

The left is the head (the top) and its body (the bottom), the right is its tail.

I modified the tail to be long curly one to be more like the dragon.

Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (31) Island - 島

The big script for character Island is

which is a Bird

on the top, and a Mountain

on the bottom.

The character means that the Island is a place where there are mountains and birds.

But where is the water? Island should be surrounded by water. The ancient Chinese didn't put water in the the character, which makes the character incomplete and imperfect.

Let me to make correction. Here is my art.

    

We know that the top one is Bird, the middle bottom one is Mountain (small script). I added two Water characters (small script), which is to complete the meaning.

There are different scripts for Water, and Mountain, let's see different combinations.

Both Mountain and Water characters above are shell bone script.

The Mountain above is shell bone script, and the characters of Water are small seal script.

Which one do you like most?