Wednesday 23 November 2011

Outline the characteristics of Taiwan calligraphy




Source of Taiwan and the mainland culture of a pulse, but 110 years ago, by more than 50 years of Japanese rule, already suffering from the impact of wind. Fortunately, the Nationalist government moved to Taiwan, both brought a lot of German Art Calligrapher, leaving Taiwan and the Central Plains culture re-contact. As the Taiwanese smart, diligent, both aggressive and simple and honest, a few years down the stick from the previous tradition, and now with a variety of new art, trying to create a new situation. The new Bureau is an independent, not with the confluence of the development of calligraphy in China, because we and the mainland, in terms of positive and simple word of education, traditional culture, critical thinking, from the value of calligraphy, to the people for Calligraphy acceptable level, there are great differences. Calligraphy work performance, it is easy to distinguish between Taiwan and the mainland calligraphers calligrapher's the difference, even if people on both sides write the same book content and the same body, but the style of performance is still different, and Japanese and Korean calligraphy works are also significantly different.
Hereby give the general development of Taiwan calligraphy features are:
(1), the orthodox tradition text: Taiwan should now be the only complete the proper use of Chinese characters is the country, the people of Taiwan for the body of the country is the word, with considerable emotion and depth of understanding.
(2), absorption of convergence of cultures: Taiwan has gone through the Qing, the Japanese occupation, and even the last five years the influence of crossing the Taiwan calligraphers, the book home and take all the local culture and long, book a unique fusion of style.
(3), hard-working, enterprising spirit: the characteristics of the country's largest island, and to accept their fate ahead. With Taiwan in the international transport hub, because the location important, although in the political, diplomatic living in disadvantage, but Taiwan is still actively seeking to expand the book home, and timely into different art.In short, Taiwan, calligraphy is characterized by a clockwise strain, highly pack melting. Although the Government was to maintain the grounds of the Chinese culture, the book winds to strict tradition-based, so we have been critical; performance too conservative, but a solid basis in recent years into yuan. In addition to the continuity of traditional calligraphy, but also to develop new modern art of calligraphy. Promote the other hand calligraphy, so a life Xiu support, education and art of living, three directions, and have different results.