QUOTE(see323 @ Apr 19 2007, 07:58 AM) [snapback]318552[/snapback]
Dave ...wow...it's yours. Most people choose to use ancient Chinese writing. They look more curvy and more toward drawings. After all, the evolution of Chinese writing evolved from drawing within a square.
Recently in the news, a Chinese lady using her calligraphy wrote and created 80 Chinese words. Within each Chinese characters, the individual stroke were shape as English letter and provide the same English word meaning as the Chinese characters. That's creativity at it's best. I saw that in the news yesterday. The slim Chinese young lady was performing the calligraphy with a big brush. Seems like dancing around the floor with the brush.
One of the most interesting things I watched in a park in Nanchang was calligraphy being written in water with a large brush on granite, apparently this section of the park was dedicated to calligraphy practice. It is apparent wherever you travel in China that writing and calligraphy are very important, and it must be, since writing, poetry etc seem to have originated in China.
You could commission artists to take a name in Chinese and then paint it using flowers and dragons, etc. I got one for my daughter while we were there, just amazing the amount of work.
On the chop, I was in a Taoist temple there, and saw a master carver with much of his work there. I knew before I traveled to China that I had to have a chop stamp, especially with my name in it. So I asked him to carve my name in the ancient script instead of the modern because I like ancient history. A day later the chop was delivered by a young lady to my hotel there.
I learned to write my name in Chinese characters coincidentally back in High School, a girl I was friends with was from... Singapore and was Chinese of course, she knew Chinese, English and Malay. She was one of the brightest students in our class that year, she signed my yearbook in the Chinese she taught me when we weren't learning anything in English.
