Strangely enough, I don’t have many photos with Alphabets; maybe only some with ancient alphabets taken in Egypt and Turkey.
Here are two more Spring Couplets which hopefully would send some good omen around.
The one on the left is for wishing good health – the first two characters on the top is Body and the lower two characters is Healthy. This is one of the most common couplet posted up during Lunar New Year wishing people Good Health in the coming year.
The one on the right is less commonly seen. The top character is luck and fortune. The second is Cup, the third Full and the fourth Overflowing . So, when taken together, they mean the cup of good luck is overflowing to the brink.
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Beautiful calligraphy! Same to you, Michael!
Glad that you like it. Thank you!
Wonderful. Simplistic. Full of great meaning. Thank you for sharing!
May you be healthy and full of blessings in the coming year as indicated on the couplets.
Thank you! You too! Enjoy the adventure!
Thank you ：）
I’m beginning to see the images. Thanks for your explanations.
Glad that my explanations are of some help!
Nice calligraphy, feeling strong with good thoughts ! 🙂
Glad that you like it. Thank you!
You are welcome!
Pay off from lots of practice, I bet! 😉
Yes, practice makes perfect!
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I like your photo, as well as your idea of a theme or a challenge to spur your creativity!
Thanks for your encouragement!
This is really nice. Sir, may you have “the cup of good luck [that] is overflowing to the brink.”
Thank you for your blessings!
Beautiful calligraphy and perfect for the Year of the Monkey!
Thank you, Simplecherishes!
impressive. I’ve always been fascinated by chinese calligraphy. 3,500 characters to be able to read the newspaper, I’m told. I’ll never get there. And also fascinating is the structure. For instance, your last two characters on the right share the same three short strokes, almost dots on the left. Surely that is not chance, is it? Do the 3 strokes have a meaning of their own?
Yes, the three strokes mean water.
The second most bottom character is Full ( for instance, full of water ).
The lowest character is Brink, describing liquid coming up to the brink!
Wow. So I did “detect” some kind of a sign. The three strokes. I will remember that. 🙂
I forget to say they represent three drops of water!
Very important. also makes it easier to remember. Love it. 🙂
So, if there are 3 drops in the character, it is related to fluid or water.
So the character for “rain” would include the three drops, right?
The character for rain is somewhat special 雨, it has four drops instead of three.
Okay. I can see them. Is that a roof on top?
To start with the characters are pictorial, then they undergo changes, I think you can image that there is a roof on top.
The “house” character has a roof on top right?
The house is 屋， you can say there is a roof on top.
I was wondering whether the figure on top of the word rain with the four dots is in fact sky.
Sky is written 天 and rain is 雨 ， to me it seems the word has been constructed with sky and four dots of rain.
Don’t know. Fascinating but way out of my league. For instance, the sky character seems to me to include the character for “Man”? Or not?
The “sky” character can be broken down into two words : 二 for two and 人 for man. Is this wonderful?
It is mind-boggling. It’s like peering into the brain of the first people who invented this character. (Now I’ve learned another character: two)
If you look at the word “cloud” 雲, you will find the word for rain in the top part, isn’t it fascinating!
It is. Totally. A shame I was spent too little time in Asia as a child. I would have loved to learn mandarin and the writing. There always is a logic in any language. And that logic is, to me, fascinating. So cloud includes rain. What is the bottom part? (learning more characters, hehe!)
Hi, please see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%BA%91
Fascinating. So “say cloud” would be the same character twice? OMG
This is a funny character, it seems the character starts off without the rain on top, then someone adds it to the top and for the latest simplified character, the rain part has been taken off again.
Speaking of characters, I just sent you partials of the painting I’d mentioned. See if you can make some sense of the characters. If you can’t doesn’t matter. Thank you anyway.
Will reply to you separately!
While we are on calligraphy, I was looking for your mail to send you a picture of the “painting/writing” I’d told you about. Is it all right if I “insert” it in one of my comments, or do you prefer by mail? If the latter, my mail is in my gravatar, so you can send me your address. let me know
Do whatever you prefer.
My email address is block8alai@gmail.com
Regards,
Michael
Thanks Michael
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