The Chinese nation has a long history, a splendid culture, and a timeless history. Since the beginning of the 21st century, Chinese traditional culture has become more and more favored by the world, and the best time for Chinese culture to export has arrived. Today, with the increasing frequency of foreign cultural exchanges, Chinese character culture has become an important part of the world's mainstream culture. Chinese people all over the world, as well as people from all over the world who need to understand China and strive to learn Chinese and Chinese characters, also need to be familiar with Chinese characters and the artistic charm they exude. Chinese calligraphy "going global" fully embodies the soft power of Chinese culture. Chinese characters are the carrier of culture, so as to realize the dissemination of excellent traditional Chinese culture in the world.
Inscription by Mr. Zhang Biao, consultant of the Chinese Calligraphers Association
Chinese characters are the product of the ancestors' observation and the crystallization of the collective wisdom of the working people. She has both form and quality, rich connotation, and can be described as a word and a world, and a stroke and a heavy sky. Chinese characters have an innate artistic quality, and their art form, calligraphy, is the sublimation of the beauty of Chinese characters. The artistic expression of each Chinese character font is either square and straight, or solid, or rigorous in structure, or vivid in meaning. Today, the art of calligraphy has been included in the world's intangible cultural heritage, so to further do a good job in the sorting of Chinese characters and the inheritance of calligraphy, we need to dig deep and keep pace with the times. All kinds of classics compiled in the form of Chinese characters have important values such as documentation, collection and appreciation.
It is not only our responsibility but also our obligation to inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional culture. In the great new era, in response to the country's call for "cultural self-confidence", the "Chinese Calligraphy Font Dictionary" was finally published after more than 20 years of collection and collation. In the contemporary upsurge of promoting traditional Chinese culture, this series of books can better tell Chinese stories and let the world understand the evolution of Chinese characters and the charm of calligraphy.
A great dictionary of Chinese calligraphy
In 2014, Mr. Rong Tie successfully developed the national scientific research project "Chinese Character Font Retrieval Database", which was published by Kaiming Wenjiao Audiovisual Publishing House. On the basis of this database, Mr. Rong Tie selected famous monuments and words of famous artists in the past dynasties to compile and publish the "Chinese Calligraphy Font Dictionary". The "Chinese Calligraphy Font Dictionary" is divided into phonetic order search and radical search, with a total of more than 9,500 commonly used words (including more than 7,700 simplified characters and more than 1,820 traditional Chinese fonts), and the total number of Chinese characters rewritten in the income reaches more than 130,000 words, with a calligrapher's biography, which is a comprehensive practical reference book in the field of Chinese calligraphy so far. This book can enable more people, especially young people, to understand the beauty of Chinese characters and calligraphy, and consciously inherit and develop them, which is related to the future of a nation.
The text of "Chinese Calligraphy Font Dictionary".
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On the basis of the "Great Dictionary of Chinese Calligraphy" published in 1999, this book further collects the inscriptions of the past dynasties, and almost includes all kinds of inkblots of important calligraphers' seals, subordinates, Kai, Xing, and grass, providing readers with classic calligraphy font materials.
This book also spares no effort, including oracle bone inscriptions, gold inscriptions, brick characters, numismatic texts, mirror inscriptions, tile characters, pottery characters, etc., which were originally written for practical purposes, although not written by famous calligraphers, but with a strong artistic quality, for broadening the reader's horizons have made a great breakthrough.
This book also includes a large number of seal texts, including more than 20,000 classic seal carving fonts of the past dynasties, providing valuable materials for readers to learn calligraphy, study seals, and ponder the conversion of blades and pen blades.
About the Author:
Mr. Rong Tie
He is the founder of the construction of the Chinese calligraphy database, the vice president of the National Academy of Ethnic Painting, the director of the Chinese Artists Association, the director of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, the director of the Xiling Seal Society, the executive vice president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts of the Democratic League, and a member of the Senior Title Review Committee of the Ministry of Culture.
He is a national first-class artist, a tutor of the advanced research class of calligraphy and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, a judge of the National Art Fund, deputy director of the Department of Culture of the Tibet Autonomous Region, and a member of the Central Committee of the Democratic League.
The main monographs include "Chinese Calligraphy Dictionary", "Huang Mufu Cai Engraving Dictionary", "Rong Tie Seal Carving", "A Piece of Danqing in Mount Everest", "Fifteen Lectures on the Ming and Qing Dynasty Seal Carving Genres", "Rong Tie Calligraphy Collection", "Rong Tie Painting Collection", "Danqing Zhao My Heart - Wu Guanzhong's Painting Road", "The Gate of the Great Craftsman - Rong Tie Ink Halo Art Boutique", calligraphy into the classroom textbook "Calligraphy Guidance and Practice 18 Volumes", "Chinese Han Dynasty Font Selection" 4 volumes and more than 50 books have been published.
In the process of editing, the book has received the full support of the leaders of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the China Calligraphy Association, and many experts and scholars. Qin Zhigang, former deputy secretary and vice chairman of the party group of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Lin Xiu, Zhong Mingshan, Zhang Biao, consultants of the Chinese Calligraphers Association, Su Shishu, honorary chairman of the China Calligraphy Association, Chen Zhenlian, Chen Hongwu, vice chairman of the China Calligraphy Association, as well as experts and scholars such as Huang Dan, Cong Wenjun, Zhou Zhigao, Zhou Yongjin, Luo Suizu, Luo Yang, Huang Tianshu, Yang Bingyan, Li Gangtian and other experts and scholars have provided authoritative academic support.
Editor-in-Chief: Rong Tie
Publisher: Chen Binbin
Editor in charge: Chai Xing Zhuang Chunming
ISBN: 9787513139571
Publisher: Kaiming Press
Price: 800.00 yuan (all 4 volumes)