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

网

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

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.

Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (41) The evolution of Dog - 狗字的演变

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Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (40) It is Santa time! - 圣诞老人来了！

The characters in the artwork

 Mountain in shell bone script

Moon in shell bone script

Deer in shell bone script

Snow in standard script

The top

is character Rain or Raining.

The bottom

 is snowflake, which is not used independently. The combination of the two parts form character Snow, implying that snow may be snowing with raining.

Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (39) Vast sky allow birds to fly freely - 天高任鸟飞

"The sky is high to let birds to fly freely" - 天高任鸟飞 is a famous Chinese proverb, which means that the world is big to allow people who have ambitious to make dream come true.

Let's see the characters involved in the proverb.

Sky - small seal script

in which 

means Big - a person opens his arms and legs. On the Big's top, add a line, meaning bigger or higher than Big which is Sky.

High - Shell bone script

which is an ancient city gate tower, the highest building in that time. 

Allow - small seal script

the left part is Human or People, the right part is Tool, which means that a skillful craftsman who can make impossible to possible.

Bird - big seal script

which is just an image of bird.

Fly - modified shell bone script (I discussed in Post 1).

So here we go for the art work: 

The sky is very high to allow birds to fly freely 

I modified "High" a little bit. 

Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (38 ) Open the door and see the mountain - 开门见山

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