Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Shanghai Museum 5: Calligraphy




When I came to China, I realized there are so many different kinds of calligraphy. These are some of them.

10 comments:

  1. wow. that's a lot! and i can't even do the basic one right. i remember endless hellish hours finishing my weekly siao khai, tiong khai and tai khai calligraphy assignments!

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  2. I had tai khai assignments before but it seemed like I didn't have as much as you did. Maybe my teachers thought it was about time they gave up on us.

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  3. Hehehe, I used to cheat on my mo-pit assignments by using my dad's calligraphy set instead of the actual brush. My teacher always gave me this funny look when submitting the assignments... maybe she's wondering why my chinese characters were rounded as against it being more of brush strokes.

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  4. Everyone cheats on their mo-pit assignments. Especially the xiaokai ones. Your dad has a calligraphy set? What's in it? You should post pictures of your calligraphy attempts! Or maybe I'd do that. Hehe.

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  5. I think my dad's calligraphy set is called "speedball's" :) I haven't touched those for years. :) My dad's artistic... unfortunately, it didn't rub on me. :)

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  6. Speedballs? Aren't those pens? Hahahaha! No wonder!

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  7. they're like fountain pens with different nibs. :)

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  8. This is by far the most bizaare kind of mopit cheating that I've ever heard!

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  9. Thank you for your kind words. Hey, I always got high marks :)

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  10. No prob. But really? If I were the teacher, after months of mopit homeworks, I'm going to devote one class to just doing calligraphy. That way I can find out exactly how bad the students write. And then I will let out an evil laughter. Mwahahahaha!

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