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.