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Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit with Chinese Calligraphy

Grab your brush and ink and give calligraphy a try to commemorate the Lunar New Year!
3 min. watch

Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit, one of the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac, with a calligraphy video demonstrating four script types, including seal, clerical, standard, and semicursive/cursive. Using brush and ink, scholar and artist Zheng Wei 鄭威 deftly shows the skills required to form the character for rabbit in four different ways, proceeding from the most ancient—seal script—through the different script types of Chinese calligraphy. Grab your brush and ink and give calligraphy a try to commemorate the Lunar New Year!

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Art Mentioned

The Astor Chinese Garden Court, Taihu rocks, granite terrace, ceramic tile flooring, roof tiles, and door frames, various woods (nan wood columns, pine beams, gingko latticework), brass fittings, China
The Astor Chinese Garden Court
China
17th century style

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