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Origin and Development of Chinese Calligraphy What I am going to talk about today has an intimate connection with our daily life in China. You will find it no matter where and when. It may be on the square in the sunshine, on the frame of the door during Spring Festival or places of interest when you are on a journey. Well, that’s calligrahy. More specific, it’s an art of writing a good hand with the brush. This ancient technique originated in China and passed on from generation to generation until today. Time is limited and I mainly introduced from the following three aspects, origin，important historical process and current situation. Through textual research，it’s generally thought that calligraphy can date back to 5 000 or 6 000 years ago. In the early time, the characters look more like drawing than script, however, people at that time seemed to have already known how to make it better-looking. Hand-writing of these simple words are called prehistorical calligraphy. When in 221 BC, emperor Qin Shi Huang unified the whole of China under one central government. He ordered his Prime Minister Li Si to collect and sort out of writing hitheto to unify the written language under one system. That is xiaozhuan. More than 2200 years has passed, script of Li Si could still be seen on the stone on Mount Tai. A new type called lishu came in the wake of the small seal script in the same short-lived Qin Dynasty (221-207BC). This was because the xiaozhuan was too complicated for the scribes in the various government offices who had to copy an increasing amount of document. Then the regular script kaishu emerged in Weiqin dynasty. The standard writing is square in form, non-cursive and architectual in style. At that time a great master at brush-writing was Wangxizhi who had a profound influence on Chinese calligraphy. There are many stories about Wangxizhi spreaded among people. When Wang was a child after his daily exercise, he cleaned his brush and ink stone in the pond of his