Sunday, March 15, 2020

Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (45) Geese flying south - 雁南飞

The bronze script (3000+ years ago) for character Fly or Flying is

which is a flying bird.


Every years, hundreds thousands geese fly from north to south in fall, Chinese call it as "Geese flying south".




Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (44) Internet - Inter网



The shell bone script (3000+ years ago) for Chinese character of Net is


Which is a net, most likely a fishing net.


The small seal script (2200+ years ago) for character Net is

which is more like a tennis net.


The current song typeface for Net is

It means exactly as English "Net", also Chinese call Internet as 因特网, in which 因特 is just a pronunciation of Inter, and 网 is Net. So here is my artwork





奋(奮)- I am just a little bird, wanting to fly, yet unable to fly high.

  The above is the   bronze script form   of the character “奋” (fèn). Strictly speaking, I’m not creating something new—I’m simply writing i...