An artisan shows one of the best writing brushes produced by the Shanlian Huzhou Ink Brush Factory (YANG YANG / CHINA DAILY) A short soft brush connected to a long hard handle, both vigorous and ...

A staff member at the workshop selects hair for making brush. Li Xiaoping, the founder of the workshop, says that the hair for making brush is divided into different categories according to gender, ...

The Huzhou writing brush has always been revered for its craftsmanship. And to trace the origin and the story behind the making of the writing brush, one of the four scholarly treasures, a group of ...

A passionate Chinese calligrapher has spent a month making a gigantic writing brush and hopes to set a new world record with it. Cheng Yufei, from Luoyang city in China's Hunan Province, handcrafted ...

The poet-traveler may be familiar to lovers of Matsuo Basho, but for most, the Japanese way of travel writing diverts from well-trodden paths. Travels with a Writing Brush, by Meredith McKinney.400 ...

The University of Tsukuba is the only establishment in Japan which has a course in which calligraphy is taught as a form of art. The study of the origins of Chinese characters and the art of writing ...

The scene of the opening ceremony of the 12th Huzhou Writing Brush Culture Festival. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The 12th Huzhou Writing Brush Culture Festival announced its opening in ...

White scratches and roughness on a black screen. Effect of old film noise in 4K with alpha channel. Stock video with retro nostalgic effect. Writing Kakizome- a traditional piece of calligraphy for ...

Sitting in front of a water basin, an artisan engages in the washing, sorting, combing and shaping of the wool. [Photo by Yang Yang/China Daily] Legend has it that one day in 223 BC, as Meng Tian, a ...

This is a collection of classical travel writing, but as translator and editor Meredith McKinney points out in the introduction, many of the texts she has selected from would not have been thought of ...