While learning Chinese,  you can find calligraphy is attached great importance by the Chinese,  especially by Chinese  teachers.

Writing Chinese is of considerable importance in a Chinese  lesson. In ancient China, painting and calligraphy were the most highly  appreciated arts in court circles and were produced almost exclusively by  amateurs, aristocrats and scholar-officials who alone had the leisure to  perfect the technique and sensibility necessary for great brushwork.  Calligraphy was thought to be the highest and purest form of painting. The  implements were the brush pen, made of animal hair, and black inks, made from  pine soot and animal glue. Writing as well as painting was done on silk. But  after the invention of paper in the 1st century, silk was gradually replaced by  the new and cheaper material. Original writings by famous calligraphers have  been greatly valued throughout China's history and are mounted on scrolls and  hung on walls in the same way that paintings are.

In a Chinese  lesson, you must have heard about many famous calligraphers in ancient  China. Wang Xizhi was among the most popular Chinese calligrapher who lived in  the 4th century AD. His best work is the Lanting Xu, the preface of a  collection of poems written by a number of poets when gathering at Lan Ting  near the town of Shaoxing in Zhejiang province and engaging in a game called  "qu shui liu shang". Wei Shuo was a well-known calligrapher of Eastern  Jin Dynasty who established consequential rules about the Regular Script. Her  well-known works include Famous Concubine Inscription and The Inscription of  Wei-shi He'nan.

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