Variant or Alternative Ways to Write Chinese Characters (留教第)

Articles about variant Chinese characters 異體字
http://search.books.com.tw/exep/prod_search.php?cat=all&key=%B2%A7%C5%E9%A6r

Chinese calligraphy books and dictionaries
http://www.yhsf.org/html/35/15/15000/1.htm
http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=20124100

中國文字經過漫長的演變，有篆、隸、草、行、楷。其中楷書的異體字、別字、俗體字夾雜了篆隸草行中的某些寫法，故楷書碑帖中常有不同於現代社會的標準寫法。您可到 http://www.9610.com/zidian/index.htm 的書法字典中試看以下的別字或字體:
明(朙)
秋(穐)
師
藝
雜

或查閱九成宮醴泉銘及乙瑛碑。


Variant Chinese characters existed in ancient Chinese dynasties and in many masterpieces and steles of Chinese calligraphy. The reasons and historical backgrounds are mentioned in the above Chinese articles and resources. In ancient China, it was not easy to unify a system such as meters, languages, and etc. Even for a native and educated Chinese person today, usually s/he will not be able to recognize 異體字 if s/he has not studied Chinese calligraphy or etymology to a certain level. So please relax and don't worry if the contents here have confused you who are either native English speakers or beginners of Mandarin Chinese. The studies of Chinese variants and etymologies are never meant to be easy, even for experienced Chinese calligraphers, linguists, or sinologists. Those variant characters are commonly used and seen in masterpieces of Chinese calligraphy, Chinese brush painting (CBP), and Chinese seals, though variants are not taught in public schools and are not used in our modern society for pen writing. There are high percentages of variants as seen in famous calligraphy models of Ouyang Xun and Lishu steles, and in classical CBP.

The Sung painting in this video 趙佶 聽琴圖
Duplicated Chinese painting scrolls
http://www.iseearts.com/sungchin.html
http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1536&am...

Free download of historical Chinese calligraphy models
http://www.9610.com/Index1.htm
The randomly selected sample characters are adapted from 乙瑛碑
乙高唐
留教第
和師辰
永藝雜
http://www.9610.com/qinhan/yyb/

Filename: Variants-Lishu-ChineseCalligrapy-Line2-SungPainting-20110623.wmv

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[artvirtue]

@05werewolf It's Japanese vermilion from Asel art supply.

[05werewolf]

Great!! what ink is that?

[artvirtue]

@cristobelle56 Have a nice day, my friend.

[cristobelle56]

Thank you for sharing, regards