CALLIGRAPHY AND CHARACTER WRITING
| Time and dates: | one hour per week. Please consult posted schedule for details. |
| Description: |
This course focuses on the introduction
to the students of Chinese at the United Nations the unique beauty of
the Chinese characters and how to write them both with a pen and a
brush. Held in the highest esteem by the Chinese intelligentsia,
calligraphy is the quintessence of Chinese culture. For in each
character lies a picture of profundity, humor, melancholy, hilarity,
humanity, or social phenomenon. To be able to appreciate and write
these pictographic images enable all those interested in China to
better understand the nation. It is, therefore, of great importance
that students of Chinese at the United Nations, of all schools, should
learn characters and calligraphy in order to learn more about China to
achieve a true sense of cultural exchange. Before the basic strokes are taught, the pictographic and philosophical concept based on which the characters were created will be introduced at the beginning of each semester. During the semester, etymology of interesting and frequently used characters grouped under different radicals -- the roots of the characters -- will be discussed, before students learn and practice writing both with a pen and a brush the characters to adequateness, artistic satisfaction, or even perfection. |
| Eligibility: | None. |
| Notification: |
To find out your class schedule, consult
the lists posted on the 6th floor and the first basement of the
Secretariat building, or the second floor of the DC-2 building before
the start of the new term. |
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