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Ts’ang Chieh
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Ts’ang Chieh

Chinese calligrapher
Also known as: Cangjie
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  • Wang Xizhi; Chinese calligraphy
    Chinese calligraphy

    It was said that Cangjie, the legendary inventor of Chinese writing, got his ideas from observing animals’ footprints and birds’ claw marks on the sand as well as other natural phenomena. He then started to work out simple images from what he conceived as representing different objects such as…

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    It was said that Cangjie, the legendary inventor of Chinese writing, got his ideas from observing animals’ footprints and birds’ claw marks on the sand as well as other natural phenomena. He then started to work out simple images from what he conceived as representing different objects such as…

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