Chinese Calligraphy Demonstration by Professor Bai Qinshen of Harvard

I have been taking the courses of ChinaX on https://www.edx.org/

I feel very thankful that they teachers and students of Harvard presented such wonderful course for anyone who is interested in Chinese culture and history. I have learned a lot from their course.

In this post, I am going to put together some nice videos about the Chinese calligraphy.

First Prof. Bol and Prof. Bai Qianshen (白谦慎）make an introduction of Chinese calligraphy.


Then Prof. Bai gives us a demonstration on brush strokes and tip work



Four treasures of the study  文房四宝：



Prof. Bai demonstrating small regular script


Prof. Bai demonstrating cursive script





Prof. Bai illustrating different scripts with the character 'heaven'   天



Prof. Bai demonstrating different scripts with the character 'wood' 木



Some nice link about Chinese calligraphy:

http://education.asianart.org/explore-resources/video/decoding-chinese-calligraphy-youtube

http://education.asianart.org/sites/asianart.org/files/resource-downloads/Getting%20Started%20with%20Chinese%20calligraphy.pdf