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Chinese calligraphy carries far more artistic dimensions compared to non-symbolic languages. My grandmother has accrued such a beautiful Chinese font style over years of practicing calligraphy and being reporter on battlefields. Her ink writings/letters have been passed down to my parents and taken good care of as family treasure brought overseas. Being Chinese British I still occasionally use them as copybook to practice. Even though all everything about her was told as stories, her handwritings, those strokes & circles, speaks a decisive, brave and clever woman.

Each character needs to be written in balance itself. Like architecture all characters itself has a firm pillar stroke and together they also need to fit into structural of the whole paragraph. Positive or negative, aggressive or passive meaning can also be expressed by same strokes but sharp or round in the right place.