Hanmojianghu

Han Fei, a boy from a pen-making family, and Mo Li, a girl from an ink-making family, each have their own unique skills, but they have never met each other. One lives in the mountains and the other lives on an island. Due to the decline of calligraphy and the decline of ancient methods, the two parents watched the sky at night and knew that the opportunity for the combination of pen and ink had arrived, so they ordered them to go down the mountain and go to the sea to meet in the East China Sea. The pen and inkstone reunited, the door of time and space opened, and the two stepped into the three thousand years of calligraphy. From the oracle bone blades of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, to the bronze inscriptions of the Western Zhou Dynasty; from the tadpoles of the Spring and Autumn Alliance to the strange seals of Zhongshan in the Warring States; from the Shiguxu Wenzangfeng to the flowing silk calligraphy of the Chu region; from the Yunmeng Qin bamboo slips to the official changes, to the old archives of Liye; from Xianyang Li Si's small seals to Yunyang Cheng Miao's official scripts; The two traveled along the way, visiting calligraphers, craftsmen, saints, swordsmen and pen scribes, and unknown calligraphers of the past dynasties, and personally experienced the evolution of pens, inks, paper and inkstones, changes in writing postures, and the rise and replacement of study utensils. However, the true art of calligraphy does not consist of one tool and one method. The knife can be turned into a pen, the copper can be turned into paper, the stone can be turned into silk, and the bamboo can be turned into Jane. The tools are ever-changing, but the beauty of Chinese characters remains unchanged: yin and yang complement each other, hardness and softness complement each other, light and heavy complement each other, side and side complement each other, opening and closing complement each other, and the myriad phenomena are balanced. The success of calligraphy ultimately lies in the cultivation of the human heart, in the journey of reading, and in the character and mind. This is a novel with the history of calligraphy as its backbone and Jianghu as its wings. Two young men, carrying pens and inkstones, traveled through thousands of years, just to find an answer: Where does calligraphy go?