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  • ITS NOT GRAFFITI YOU IDIOT ITS JUST THE WAY THEY SPELL THEIR LANGUAGE

  • THATS A COOL BRUSH I WANT ONE

  • Watching the fluid moves of the calligrapher is quite inspiring. Thanks for posting.

  • The world has so many beautiful religions, only facebook and modernism is ruining it, gueess we humans will just have to move on. I love modernism, but it's hard to leave the acient cultures and to remeber tham.

  • so what does it say ? 187 Crips Slobkilla chinatown??

  • @benbirdy Ancient Chinese,

    况修短随化,终期于尽。古人云:死生亦大矣。

    And the length of life is determined by fate. The ending of life is our destiny. The ancients said: “Dead or alive is a huge thing.”

  • @lee9195800 well that makes sense, still I quiet dont get the last sentence

  • I don't know anything about chinese characters, this guy has REALLY nice handwriting.

    Notice how straight and equidistant the characters are from one another.

    YES, i notice this kind of stuff because my handwriting sucks.....

  • I can do yellow calligraphy in the snow.

  • now that is 行気. absolutely brilliant.

  • This is cool !

    Thanks!

  • This is so amazing! :D I cant wait to go to china this summer

  • eywanna find a fellow who can satisfy my needs

  • wow those are super pretty kanji

  • u can regard this as a kind of chinese street art

  • Whoa, that's better than my grandpa.

  • damn he's doin it perfect with such a long brush

  • Though it looks like a brush, it isn't. It actually is a sponge. The shaft is hollow, cos although you can get water, ink, whatever, straight from the bucket, the water, in this case, is supplied thru the shaft down to the sponge, so really, it works like a fountain pen. I've got one. You can get one of those for as little as $15. I only wish I was half as good as he is. Regards.

  • oh, thanks

  • Thing is, I live in China, and you can get this kind of "brushes" at any art shop. I really don't know where to buy them in the US. Try Chinatown.

    I never saw them in the West.

    Regards.

  • i don't really see the purpose? Perhaps if I used something simple like hiragana my characters would come out reasonably legible but i don't see anyone do this in the us.

  • @augustmaple Its art 1., Well if you have seen chinese for quite a long time u can read that xD. And yup you're talking about YOUR characters. And im assuming you're learning. Well in the US we have letters and it just doesnt look as nice without the added color.

  • why does he dip it in the bucket at the end?

  • Because it's water what he's using to write. Being water it eventually dries off the ground.

  • cool, i wonder what he was writing , probaly something like ' get that camera the fuck away from me you stalker ' !!

  • actually i'd say it has a lot in common with hand styles. its all calligraphy at the end of the day. this guys well talented. good vid.

  • skilled!

    but thats no graffiti idiot

  • Um. It is graffiti.....idiot.

    Check out the definition of graffiti.

    Why the hell did you have to call him an idiot anyway? E-thug piece of shit.

  • the guy who upload the vid is an idiot imo. not that guy which paints with water, it's skilled. but definitely not graffiti[streetart]. cause the letters are not formed. if this is graffiti, this comments here are graffiti too

  • wat does it say thow???

  • amazing!

  • 字确实漂亮

  • dang nice so smooth and perfect it's almost eerie

  • is this zen?

  • what does it say

  • WOW, nice :)

  • awesome... makes my writing look shit in comparison

  • now those are handstyles I can dig

  • Excuse me, this calligraphy is done by using water so it will eventually evaporate. This is called knowing how to appreciate real art. Don't think that because you're an american, you are the best. I am proud to be a Chinese and don't you insult it.

    By the way, this is legal.

  • lol your a bitch...go smoke a blunt and chill the fuck out

    graffiti AKA self-expression is a artform

  • china has kanji? kanji literally means Chinese Characters in japanese. They learned from the chinese back in the 11th century

  • lol you watch too much TV / movies. China is not what you think. Go there yourself. SO IGNORANT

  • it is very beautyful.good handstyle

  • man i wish i could do that

  • what does it say?

  • beautiful

  • fuck racism

    art has no bundary :)

  • well you guys do realize graffiti evolved from calligraphy.

  • in the metter of fact somebody, definitely, do!!!!!!!!!! and if American school system will realize that, then it will be first step to bild really education for our kids. Humanity didn't find yet the way to start to train and organize our brain, teach to be zealous and plodding better than learn calligraphy. Actually we all forgot and don't teach our kids, that America was set (builded) by hard working peaple

  • The last Chinese characters being written were "古人云 死生亦大矣". It perhaps can be translated to "Ancient people say: death and life is also great and important and weighty".

    If you search "lan ting xu" on the web, you can find more information.

  • wow. nice.

    i cnt evn do tht on papr

    !

  • this dudes movements are so fluent he makes this look effortless

  • The real meaning is that all these beautiful things will be gone, evaporated, without a trace. life is only temporary, and so is beauty. nothing is permanent. same philosophy as the sand mandala, or artist destroying whole life's work.

  • are you dumb?

  • If only it was paint...

  • whoa this cool

  • dude change graffiti to caligraphy that just ruins it..

  • It is not graffiti. It's calligraphy. Like the English font has its typeface, this "chinese font" has its own typeface name. Maybe this typeface name is "liu ti"

    They are a lot of old men who use this kind big brushes and the water in the lake to practice their calligraphy instead sitting in home writing on the paper. They combine the body excise and calligphy together. It's common in China.

  • he has got the great skill, and all wordings are very beautiful.

  • thats amazing. hes writing so fast and its still amazingly Perfect. thats pretty.

  • what is he sayin i have no clue

  • amazing. i'm not chinese but can see this man is very skilled. thanks for posting it. we don't see this kind of thing often. can anyone tell us what is says?

  • Cool. I wish I could draw like that.

  • this shit isn't graffiti you dumbass. it's calligraphy =.=

  • its both. its also writing on publicly owned things. even if its the floor. but that's some beautiful writing. I suppose calligraphy is as much an art as it is writing.

  • wow each stroke is perfect!

  • Ye, whats the point ? ;D

  • this guy has mad skill like with precision

  • They look so fucking cool.

  • what is he saying is this a sign for peace or something???

  • skills

  • Chinese characters are so beautiful.  This man makes it look so easy.

  • Stupid tannalv, don't know what the fuck art is.

  • O.O

  • He goes:

    Why.

    The.

    Fuck.

    Am.

    I.

    Writing.

    Down?

  • lol

  • wtf?

  • this is chinese, kanji, and hanja ;; they're the same language just said differently in differet languages

  • what is he writing ?

  • I'm gonna go to the corner right now and do this. I can't write Chinese but you can't read Chinese so it's ok!

  • wow beautiful!!!!!!!!!!SO JEALOUS!!!

  • This calligraphy is so artistic. I love the perfect way it looks!

  • OH, I saw this. yeah, same backarmsaddi, I wish I knew what it meant, but I've been told that it's chinese poetry... and calligraphy, so even another Chinese person might not be able to read it. But it's still really cool.

  • 好字~~

  • Extremely Well Done!

  • i love this. we've got this in Chengdu,2. these elderlies are really awsome.

  • nothing you can do about it...

  • one child policy's been in place for soo long..

  • Hey guys Jesus loves you and died for your sins

  • I would have liked it better if I understood what it said lol

  • he should play pool he has some good control.

  • 我晕,没看懂 兰亭序 我以为只是一些字呢

  • Id love if it rained...

    XP

  • its the writing of the true asian confucious the second.

  • beautiful writing

  • And then, when satiety follows satisfaction, and with the change of circumstances, change also our whims and desires, there then arises a feeling of poignant regret. In the twinkling of an eye, the objects of our former pleasures have become things of the past, still compelling in us moods of regretful memory. Furthermore, although our lives may be long or short, eventually we all end in nothingness. "Great indeed are life and death", said the ancients. Ah! What sadness!

  • Now when people gather together to surmise life itself, some sit and talk and unburden their thoughts in the intimacy of a room, and some, overcome by a sentiment, soar forth into a world beyond bodily realities. Although we select our pleasures according to our inclinations—some noisy and rowdy, and others quiet and sedate—yet when we have found that which pleases us, we are all happy and contented, to the extent of forgetting that we are growing old.

  • Today the sky is clear, the air is fresh and the kind breeze is mild. Truly enjoyable it is sit to watch the immense universe above and the myriad things below, traveling over the entire landscape with our eyes and allowing our sentiments to roam about at will, thus exhausting the pleasures of the eye and the ear.

  • and although there is no music from string and wood-wind instruments, yet with alternate singing and drinking, we are well disposed to thoroughly enjoy a quiet intimate conversation.

  • Here is the translation of what the guy wrote:

    The Orchid Pavilion

    In the ninth year of the reign Yungho[A.D. 353] in the beginning of late spring we met at the Orchid Pavilion in Shanyin of Kweich'i for the Water Festival, to wash away the evil spirits.

  • Here are gathered all the illustrious persons and assembled both the old and the young. Here are tall mountains and majestic peaks, trees with thick foliage and tall bamboos. Here are also clear streams and gurgling rapids, catching one's eye from the right and left. We group ourselves in order, sitting by the waterside, and drinking in succession from a cup floating down the curving stream;

  • Wow! Thank you for your translation!

  • dont look at the coment below spam is

  • what city is it

  • That's nothing. I can write my name in the snow with my own urine!

  • In China it is a kind of art training, everyone can do so, but first of all, you can write a good-looking we appreciate you

  • Thats awesome!!!! I wish i knew how to speak chinese!!!

  • Shut the fuck up and go eat a dick, faggot

  • this is not graffitti!!..i thought the guy writting the calligraphy was jus some intro..but i gotta give it to him..he mase it look like everyone could do it..

  • americans thinks the world revolve around them with all the stupid elections they're having

  • not really faggot

  • actually kid U.S is obviously way more important than anything else right now, or by that matter ever.

  • China is more important in the world economy.

  • yeh OK! the world revolves around Singapore dosnt it?

  • Yeah...OK! the world revolves around Singapore then..doesn't it?

  • no wonder i can't draw worth a shit. I write in english.

  • Whoa, this guy is good!

  • Yeah, I can't read what he/she is writing but what does it have to do with anything in the comments? I swear, people just troll youtube and post comments that have nothing to do with the video... Pisses me off

  • beautiful

    and to all those americans

    Chinese calligraphy is extremely hard to draw.

    its alright to be jealous.

    XP

  • I think ya ALL fuckholes. I absolutely love watching youtube vids, because you get to read all the comments on the internet of people calling themselves retards, it's absolutely hillarious. Truth is that arguing on the internet is funny because even if you win you're a retard... lol but it is amazing. Isn't this video great.

  • That is beautiful, I just hope nobody walks on it. . .

  • its cos most ppl these days cant string two words together without a fuck or a cunt, plus most people on youtube are arrogant nd have no life other than sat infrount of a pc. this is art and wether ya like it or not it should be appreciated if you aint got anythin constructive to say then dont say anythin 'fuckhole' plus you decided to watch it, if it looks like it aint gona intrest ya then why watch it? ppl tht aint got anytin beter to do than rip others because they aint goin anywhere in life.

  • you just ripped everyone so you must be goin absolutely nowhere. Dumbass...and you yourself used the word "fuckhole" so practice what you preach. know it all. if i could i would shit on your cat. how easy is it to just ignore comments instead of attack the person who made them? hmm...what else....oh yeah learn how to spell jackass!

  • I think you will find i used quotation marks when i quoted 'fuckhole' dumbass, if i was to spell everything correctly, i wouldent have had enough charaters. im not going to argue though, you have a point and i have just defeated the point of my argument, it just pisses me off when people have nothing better do than rip others.

  • I think you will find i used quotation marks when i quoted 'fuckhole' dumbass, if i was to spell everything correctly, i wouldent have had enough charaters. im not going to argue though, you have a point and i have just defeated the point of my argument, it just pisses me off when people have nothing better do than rip others.

  • Very skillful calligraphy, but it seems every single Youtube video is laced with profanity-filled comments, why?

    Can't people think anymore without using the F-word as a adjective, verb, AND noun?

    If I hit my thumb with a hammer, I might say it, but it's few and far between, people are just too lazy (or stupid) to think of other words anymore, either that or they're trying to shock everybody. It's getting so common that it's BORING, people!

    Thanks for nothing, George Carlin and Gangsta Rap!

  • 5 estrellas

  • That's stupid...Use some fucking paper, fuckhole

  • You're stupid for posting such a stupid fucking comment. If he wanted to use paper he would have, you fucktard.

  • Blow it out your ass. When I want your opinion, I'll give it to you cunt nugget

  • Ahahaha wow, just by looking at your profile i can tell right away that you are a douche bag homo.

  • actually there are some people in China who like to write these pretty graffiti on the street.some of them want to provide themselves with the basics by this,and some of them do this just for fun.and what they write actually are really beautiful.

  • 兰亭集序

  • It amazes me that there are people who still use pictogram systems even today. It must be so cumbersome to have to memorize all those complex glyphs!

  • i know this is going to seem really stupid, but is this cantonese of mandarin? =/

  • that question does seem stupid, but its ok because your not chinese :)

    All chinese ppl write in chinese... cantonese is just a chinese dialect that sounds very different from mandarin (but the written words are the same)

    I myself speak the sichuanese dialect, but I read and write the same way as every other chinese people

  • aww be sad u whore, go slit your wrists now...... youtube prostitute

  • 写的不错,听旁边人的口音,他应该是广州人,或者是香港的吧

  • hes so good at it =]

  • 美麗的

  • Wow this is amazing, very fluid and smooth movements with ease and the characters are nicely aligned. This is true passion.

  • Wow. That's just... wow. Kanji is really hard to write and/or learn. XD

  • um hi. kanji is japanese. this is chinese. lol

  • 看来式个书法高手 you no hwat i'm talking about :)

  • 看来式个书法高手

  • wtf r u guys talking about america last time i checked commets r for the video fags

  • wow! i'm really surprised i this appeared in the front page. I went there 3 weeks ago and saw that! There was a lady who let us try it and we wrote our chinese names there.

  • wow that is beautiful

  • lol, well i actually dont HATE americans, at least they hate commies

  • actually its not American its international so the correct statement would be if you dont like the world GTFO

  • Just for the sake of being factually accurate, Youtube is owned by Google, which is based mainly in America.

  • shut the fuck up you mexican commie.

  • This American Website is actually in many languages.

  • most of them are actually writing poetry, they say it helps them keep a clear mind

  • holy crap.. the guy writes the characters so smoothly. i can't even write that well with a normal brush and this dude's writing it with a sponge attached to the end of a walking stick.