Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Invented in China around 300 B.C.E, the bamboo brush was originally intended solely for traditional calligraphy and ink painting ...

Among the various calligraphic tools, the calligraphy brush is special to China. It represents one of the four treasures of study, which also include paper, ink and ink stone. Chinese calligraphy ...

The body of the brush can be made from either bamboo, or rarer materials such as red sandalwood, glass, ivory, silver, and gold. The head of the brush can be made from the hair (or feathers) of a wide ...

Debate rages over how much of traditional brushstroke writing will be inherited by a younger generation that uses technology to write Zhou Qing holds a brush in one hand as she gestures with the other ...

Some students in Myanmar have spent much of the summer vacation learning Chinese calligraphy at the China Cultural Center in Yangon. Myintzu Theint, 25, has been learning brush calligraphy at the ...

In China cosmology, the square or ‹di› represents the earth and the circle represents the sky; ‹shu› signifies book, writing by association. The expression ‹dishu› literaly means square calligraphy, i ...