Appreciation of Chinese Calligraphy

摘要

Calligraphy means "artistic writing." Writing involves written language and awritten language involves a writing system. Of the world's existing writingsystems, there are basically three different types: phonetic, as in English;syllabic, as in Japanese kana; and logographic. The Chinese writing systemis unique and is the only one that is logographic. Logographs involvemeaning. Meaning is always complicated. So logographs in writing have tobe numerous.