Avoiding Monotony in Chinese Calligraphy, Pt 2

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Part of the video series: Writing Chinese Calligraphy with Style

Summary: Learn how to write Chinese characters in proper calligraphy style! This free video shows you how to avoid monotonous strokes in your calligraphy.

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By Bo Feng
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Bo Feng is an experienced Chinese/English translator and interpreter. He has worked for Chinese International Travel Services, Lingnan Art Publishing House and Phillips Petroleum. Feng...read more

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"And then the dot from a appropriate place in this total empty space, to fill in that empty space. So that's fang also means house. And let's have another example; so P is that or he. We sort of use this one in modern day Chinese but in ancient Chinese it's used a lot. So similarly because we have shot slanting strokes it goes at a pretty east angle. This is a short one also so that it makes, it makes room for the vertical to come down and then here we need a longer stroke; so in order not to push the whole center of the word to the right like that, we need to have a stroke that starts closer to this; to this vertical on the left and so it."