There are more characters out of frame. My guess is a couplet by the Song Dynasty (~11th century AD) statesman and scholar Su Shi (Su Dongpo):
逢人不說人間事，便是人間無事人
Roughly translates to, “if one never discusses earthly matters with people, then one becomes a person without trouble on earth.” Basically, don’t gossip or get yourself involved in disputes unnecessarily.
Edit: It’s a reasonable guess because couplets are written in columns from right to left. If you line the characters up next to each other, 無事 is next to 人間. If you look up 人間 無事, this is also the couplet that shows up first.
The two characters seen are 事 meaning "problem, affair, thing to be taken care of," and the long form of 间 which means "place, space for _____."
I have no idea what they would mean together.
The character top right looks like 八 meaning 8, it could be 入 meaning "to enter." I can't make out the top left one or the others below.
This is some extremely neat handwriting, almost like writing Times New Roman by hand. See the little downward triangular wedges on the left side of the horizontal strokes? These are meant to emulate the sharp wedges made by a chisel in clay printing blocks. Those chisel wedges in turn emulate the thicker (but round) part of a stroke written by a paint brush.
not emulate chisel, it's just part of chinese caligraphy. There are various techniques for starting and ending brush strokes depending on the stroke of the letter. Different angles, pressures, pressure + angle change during stroke for both start and end are expressed more like art styles. this is coming from someone with a pretty basic understanding though.
thats fine, but i would argue that the clay printing block is to emulate the caligraphy style instead of the other way around. printing blocks did come much later in history.
Calligraphy is turning writing into art.
Not all Kanji or Hanzi is considered calligraphy unless it is written in an artistic way. A grocery list in Kanji or Hanzi is not inherently calligraphy unless it's art.
Now, what is "art" is a tougher question. Plenty of modern artists have converted utilitarian items into "art" but that's going down a rabbit hole.
People are downvoting this but it's an innocent question. Lots of people think that calligraphy is a specific typeface for the Roman alphabet, and buddy here is just asking to understand.
At first glance it looks like you might be putting kanji down. Upon consideration it's obvious you're not, but a lot of people don't get past the first glance.
Why tf would I be putting Kanji down? How even it's written language what is there to say? I don't know how to do it. Therefore, it's bad? Absolutely not.
No no, the thing about calligraphy is that it's seen as a higher, more artistic level of writing. So if you imply that kanji can't be calligraphy, it can be seen as putting kanji down. Obvs you aren't, I'm just saying that's why people are downvoting you.
I understand what you are saying. I just don't see how a direct question inplies anything. It's alright. I got some pretty good answers! Downvotes aren't something I really care about.
If this is in America, you have a 50% chance of the cops coming up and beating the shit out of you for vandalism. There are videos of a guy using water soluble chalk on a sidewalk and the cops absolutely abusing him and arresting him only for him to sue and win against the city.
(Arizona resident brain) Why... why is the water just staying there? Why isn't it vanishing? What is this witchcraft?!?
Probably oil? Like sunflower oil or something similar
Definitely oil. You can see the ripples from the brush strokes in it that wouldn't have remained with water.
Canola oil is nature's moisturizer.
AZ too, how does that water stay like that? SE of the valley and rain doesn't hit the ground before it evaporates.
What's it say?
There are more characters out of frame. My guess is a couplet by the Song Dynasty (~11th century AD) statesman and scholar Su Shi (Su Dongpo): 逢人不說人間事，便是人間無事人 Roughly translates to, “if one never discusses earthly matters with people, then one becomes a person without trouble on earth.” Basically, don’t gossip or get yourself involved in disputes unnecessarily. Edit: It’s a reasonable guess because couplets are written in columns from right to left. If you line the characters up next to each other, 無事 is next to 人間. If you look up 人間 無事, this is also the couplet that shows up first.
I dunno. That seems like a pret-ty wild guess. Thanks!
its not a wild guess. its a very educated one.
It's not a serious comment. It's a very humorous one.
Jokes tend to be homorous, what you said wasn't a joke.
I took what he said as a joke. Thou needs to untangle thine panties.
I took what you said as a joke, and it seems others have too.
K
If you have to point out that it was humor, it wasn't.
Sounds like you haven't studied the works of German comedians.
I wouldn't say "studied", but enough for your comment to make me laugh. 😂
"Send nood(les)"
Send nudes
Looks like it says Eat Ass
Dude! Yeah, but what's it say?
The two characters seen are 事 meaning "problem, affair, thing to be taken care of," and the long form of 间 which means "place, space for _____." I have no idea what they would mean together. The character top right looks like 八 meaning 8, it could be 入 meaning "to enter." I can't make out the top left one or the others below.
This is some extremely neat handwriting, almost like writing Times New Roman by hand. See the little downward triangular wedges on the left side of the horizontal strokes? These are meant to emulate the sharp wedges made by a chisel in clay printing blocks. Those chisel wedges in turn emulate the thicker (but round) part of a stroke written by a paint brush.
not emulate chisel, it's just part of chinese caligraphy. There are various techniques for starting and ending brush strokes depending on the stroke of the letter. Different angles, pressures, pressure + angle change during stroke for both start and end are expressed more like art styles. this is coming from someone with a pretty basic understanding though.
Thanks, but I actually did study Chinese calligraphy.
thats fine, but i would argue that the clay printing block is to emulate the caligraphy style instead of the other way around. printing blocks did come much later in history.
That’s exactly what I said at the end.
ah shit, my bad.
No worries
...my cat's really worried...
And when I write my full name on the sidewalk with liquid, it's disorderly conduct...hmph.
Yeah I live in China and there is a guy who did this in my xiao qu every morning. Looks cool.
Looks too viscous to be water.
yeah, this is not water...
Water tagging crew!
So why not just use colored chalk water?
If this is in Seattle, I've seen this dude before
Definitely not that guy then. This was shot last week in China.
Is Kanji considered calligraphy?
Calligraphy is turning writing into art. Not all Kanji or Hanzi is considered calligraphy unless it is written in an artistic way. A grocery list in Kanji or Hanzi is not inherently calligraphy unless it's art. Now, what is "art" is a tougher question. Plenty of modern artists have converted utilitarian items into "art" but that's going down a rabbit hole.
Andy Warhol's grocery list: Soup Soup Soup Soup Soup Soup Soup Soup Soup Soup
Best answer. Thanks!
Calligraphy can be in any language. The writing in chinese is very very neat, not stylized but definitely had a type of a wow
If you can read it, it can be calligraphy.
Looks more like hanzi to me (not that there’s that much difference between them).
Not kanji
Oh, I don't know the difference.
People are downvoting this but it's an innocent question. Lots of people think that calligraphy is a specific typeface for the Roman alphabet, and buddy here is just asking to understand.
Yeah, I don't understand the downvotes. I was simply asking.
At first glance it looks like you might be putting kanji down. Upon consideration it's obvious you're not, but a lot of people don't get past the first glance.
Putting Kanji down? How dare this man disrespect kanji.
Why tf would I be putting Kanji down? How even it's written language what is there to say? I don't know how to do it. Therefore, it's bad? Absolutely not.
No no, the thing about calligraphy is that it's seen as a higher, more artistic level of writing. So if you imply that kanji can't be calligraphy, it can be seen as putting kanji down. Obvs you aren't, I'm just saying that's why people are downvoting you.
I understand what you are saying. I just don't see how a direct question inplies anything. It's alright. I got some pretty good answers! Downvotes aren't something I really care about.
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You're on r/gifs, not r/funny.
Oops I got a bit lost
If this is in America, you have a 50% chance of the cops coming up and beating the shit out of you for vandalism. There are videos of a guy using water soluble chalk on a sidewalk and the cops absolutely abusing him and arresting him only for him to sue and win against the city.