You are My Baby -- 你是我宝贝

Now you maybe have a question. The final of 醉 is not 'ei', but 'ui'. In fact, 'ui' is the abbreviation of 'uei'.

When final 'uei' spelled with a initial, 'uei' is abbreviated to 'ui'.

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

Song for the Snow

咏雪 (Song for the Snow) is a simple and beautiful poem, which was written by a famous artist of Qing Dynasty, zhèng xiè , also known as Zhèng Bǎnqiáo. He was very good at painting bamboo with brush.

The following video will show you how to read this poem, and how to write it in traditional Chinese characters.

A Song about Numbers

In this video, I will introduce a song which involved some basic numbers. It's a good song for anyone who just starts learn Mandarin. :)