Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (61) Walk Horse and Watch Flowers - 走马观花

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Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (60) Flying Sand and Walking Stones - 飞沙走石

 

"Flying sand and walking stone" is a famous Chinese proverb, which describes how a powerful storm could be like.

Characters are in the artwork.

1, Fly or Flying, big seal script

which is a flying bird.

2, Sand, big seal script

The left is character Water

the middle is river, the four dots are water drops. ancient Chinese got water from the river, so river + water drops = character water. 

other four dots are sand, which means that the sand is located near the river (on the beach). I added much more sand in the air.

3, Walk or Walking, bronze script

the top is a person who is walking, the bottom is a foot.

4, Stone, big seal script

 厂 means the cliff, the   口 is the stone, which is quarried from a cliff of mountain. I added many more rolling stones

Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (60) Fantastic Dream - 梦幻

 

The characters in the artwork.

1, Fantastic or Fantasy (Bronze script)

A spider web or part of spider web hangs on a branch. After raining, the spider web got wet, which could be a riot of color under sunshine, a dreamlike world

2, Dream (Shell bone script)

The left is a person, the right one is a bed. A person is sleeping and dreaming on a bed.

The character is vertical because, in shell bone time (3000+ years ago), people didn't have paper, they wrote or drew the characters on bamboo slips, which are very narrow, difficult to write horizontally. People had to write or draw many characters vertically, the character Dream is one of them.