China's Spring Festival will fall on Jan. 29 this year, marking the beginning of the Year of the Snake. A calligrapher demonstrated five different styles of the Chinese character for "Snake" to the ...

Calligraphy, literally "beautiful writing," has been appreciated as an art form in many different ... Those qualities began to emerge very clearly during the Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.), when ...

in an alphabetic writing system the basic components represent sounds only without any reference to meaning. For example, the letter “b” in English represents a voiced bilabial stop, but no particular ...