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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 13:27:49 -0800
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- Subject: "Squeeze"-- to reserve the calligraphy's beauty
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- Greeting, everyone :
- Happy New Year!
- I am a student of NSYSU (National Sun Yat-Sen University, in Taiwan.)
- I don't know how much people are interested in Chinese history and culture.
- But, the history of China is really a long river, many interesting parts
- included.
- "Calligraphy" is the special one in Chinese culture. It is not only
- the writing way in China for thousands years (writing brush, inkcake, paper,
- and inkstone are the tools), but also the "art" maintained to today.
- There are many styles of Calligraphy, and each one owns its different beauty.
- How can we reserve the calligraphy from a stele ? That's ---"Squeeze"
- (means to replicate the epigraph onto paper, but not to destroy the stele).
- Following are main steps :
- 1. Clean the stele and wash it.
- 2. Paste a piece of paper by thin starch and a piece by water on
- the stele.
- 3. knock paper into groove (without bubbles in the papers).
- 4. when the papers are subarid, tear down one piece of paper.
- 5. pat ink onto paper (on the stele) carefully.
- 6. tear down the replica and the replica is finished !
- interesting, isn't it? Ancient people did this to reserve the epigraph, so
- we could appreciate and learn them, even to understand the history then.
- That's all. Hope you will like my introduction!
-
- p.s. If you come here (Taiwan), please go to visit the "National
- Palace Museum", it is the most valuable place you should go !
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