Chinese calligraphy has always been more than simply a tool for communication ... Whether they are recording information or simply creating beautiful forms, calligraphers' brushes are used to ink five ...

Unfortunately, no confirmed authentic works of Wang have survived and the reliability of the some hundred ancient copies ...

If you were a Chinese scholar in the middle of the 18th Century – or even the 19th Century – you would have a table, and on it you would have a number of key things: brushes for calligraphy ...