Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (43) Pine Forest - 松林

The big seal script (~ 3000 years ago) for character Pine is

on the left

is Wood, here means tree.

The right part means "Equally Distributed", may be about the pine needles.

The small script (~ 2200 years ago) for character Pine is

similar to its big seal script.

The shell bone script (more than 3000 years ago) for character Forest is

two Wood (tree) means many tree = Forest.

The small seal script for Forest is

Chinese painting for Pine

Let me show how to combine Chinese calligraphy and Chinese calligraphy to form a new art: Pine Forest (松林), which is the first one of this kind art ever.

The left is Pine Forest (big seal script and shell bone script) with pine needles on the top.

The right is Pine Forest (small seal script) with pine needles on the top.