Chinese have painted

The Chinese have painted for more than 5,000 years. Before the ability to write, the Chinese express their thoughts and feelings in pictures. Like the Egyptians, the Chinese would carve the pictures on wood, bamboo, or stones. Slowly, these pictures were refined into signs or symbols which we called characters. The characters is divided into the traditional characters and the simplified characters.

In Chinese writing, each character is a work of art. In 105 A.D. Tsai Lun first invented paper.

Lines and dots form the characters while some lines look like bars and poles, others look like hooks and tails. In China, Japan and Korea, a piece of fine handwriting may be valued more than a piece of painting.