Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Invented in China around 300 B.C.E, the bamboo brush was originally intended solely for traditional calligraphy and ink painting ...

The body of the brush can be made from either bamboo, or rarer materials such as red sandalwood, glass, ivory, silver, and gold. The head of the brush can be made from the hair (or feathers) of a wide ...

Debate rages over how much of traditional brushstroke writing will be inherited by a younger generation that uses technology to write Zhou Qing holds a brush in one hand as she gestures with the other ...

Some students in Myanmar have spent much of the summer vacation learning Chinese calligraphy at the China Cultural Center in Yangon. Myintzu Theint, 25, has been learning brush calligraphy at the ...

Editor's note: Chinese calligraphy is the artistic practice of writing Chinese characters using a brush and ink. Celebrated for its aesthetic beauty and cultural depth, Chinese calligraphy is not ...

Chinese calligraphy is more than brush-and-ink writing — it embodies Confucianism, Taoism, Zen Buddhism, and yin and yang philosophy. Over millennia, these traditions have shaped its aesthetics ...