Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy (71) Long Time No See - 好久不见

Character Good - big seal script: the left is character Child, the right is character Woman. It is good for you to have a wife and child, or it is good for a woman to have a child.

Character Long - big seal script.

Character Not - big seal script.

Character Meet - big seal script.

Chinese say "Good" sometimes means Very, here is Very. 

Good Long Not Meet = Long Time No See.

 

Pictographic Chinese Calligraphy（70）Evolution of character Tiger - 虎字的演变

 From left to right: Shell bone script, bronze script, big seal script, small seal script, clerical script.

The shell bone script is a vertical standing tiger because it was drawn on bamboo strip, very narrow.

Bronze, big seal scripts are similar to shell bone script, but simplified tiger.

Small seal script is totally different, I can't tell which is which.

Clerical script has a little bit similarity to small script. 

The song typeface (current formal printing script) is 虎 (not on the artwork).

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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