Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (69) 2020 - Clouds and mists will finally dissipate

 

The characters in the artwork above

1, 二： Two or 2. It is clerical script alike.

2, 〇：Zero, or 0

3, Cloud (big seal script)

4, Open (big seal script）

5, Mists (big seal script)

6, Dissipate (big seal script)

7, Finally (small seal script)

I modified this one to big seal script alike because big seal script has not been found.

8, Have (big seal script)

9, Time (big seal script)

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There are too many characters involved in the artwork, however, only the top line is important, which has only two characters: Two, and Zero. So if you understand the first line, it is enough. Don't worry the second and third lines right now. The title explains the meaning: Clouds and mists will finally dissipate. 

Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (68) The water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up - 水能载舟，亦能覆舟

"The water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up - 水能载舟，亦能覆舟" is famous Chinese proverb. It means that something or someone may help you to success, but they may destroy you if the condition changes.

The characters in the artwork:

1, Boat - Shell bone script

2, Water - Small seal script

 

Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (67) Flying Waterfall, or Silver River? - 读李白《望庐山瀑布》有感

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Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (66) Golden Autumn - 金秋

 

Characters in the artwork

1, Golden or Gold

which is small seal script of the character.

The top a cover and a short - means "contain", the bottom two vertical short line are actually two dots in any other scripts. Because small seal script has no dot, all dots are replaced by short lines. the rest part means Soil. The character means that the soil contains or has gold (the two dots are gold particles found in soil).

2, Autumn

The left is character Rice Crop, the top is ear of the rice in autumn. The right it character Fire, two dots are  flame, and the center is firewood.

Chinese believe that autumn is golden because the ripe grains are yellow, the clouds are red just like fire. So Chinese call autumn as golden autumn. 

I repeated the character Rich Crop, and Fire to form a three dimentional wild field, let audience feel the visual impact of Golden Autumn.

Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (65) Mountain Trip - 山行

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Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (64) Rain Drops to the Banana Leaf - 雨打芭蕉

 

The characters in the artwork

1, 

Rain - Big seal script 

2, 

A fragrant plant

3, 

Any of several broadleaf plants

芭蕉 normally means Banana.

Rain drops to the banana leaf is famous Chinese traditional music, you can listen the music by clicking the  link below.

Chinese traditional music: Rain drops to the banana leaf

Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (62) Ten thousand horses galloping ahead - 万马奔腾 （萬馬奔騰）

 万马奔腾 (萬馬奔騰）is a famous Chinese proverb, means "Ten Thousand horses gallop forward".

Explanation for the characters in the artwork from top to bottom.

1,  

 Small seal script of character Ten Thousand, which is a scorpion with many feet. Experts believe that there were too many scorpions in the ancient time, so use it to be a big number. 

2,

 

Small seal script of character Horse

3, 

Big seal script of character Rush or Running. 

The top is a person who is running, the bottom are three feet. Why three not two? Because when something is moving very fast, you could not see it clearly, such as the steel bars on bicycle wheels, you only see the blur of them. Ancient Chinese use three feet to represent the person is running too fast to see his feet clearly.

4, 

Big seal script of character Soar. 

The left is a boat, the right top is fire (torch), the middle are two hands holding the torch, the bottom is a horse. Actually, the boat + torch + hands form a character of King, who is riding a horse gallops ahead, leading a big army forward.