Friendship, Friends Poem Chinese Calligraphy Wall Scroll

This is not a Print! This Friendship Chinese poem calligraphy wall scroll is 100% hand-painted by talented disabled artist!

About 'Friendship / Bosom Friends' Chinese Poem Calligraphy Wall Scroll Artwork

Typical Gallery Price: $170.00
Your price: $78.99

Regular-sized Approximate Measurements:
Length of Silk Scroll: 56.9" (144cm)
Width of Wooden Scroll Roller: 18.6" (47cm)

Traditional or Simplified Chinese Characters & pinyin

Traditional Chinese Characters & pinyin

Simplified Chinese Characters & pinyin

Note: As you see, there Traditional and Simplified Chinese Characters are same version except a character "lin".

Consists of ten characters were pronounced ‘hai nei cun zhi ji, tian ya ruo bi lin’. It comes from one poem written by Wang bo, a famous poet in early Tang dynasty. Its literal meaning in English is that Bosom friends within the four seas are close neighbors though separated by great distance. This poem generally expresses a kind of optimistic feeling for those good friends who are going to be separated due to their careers in the time when the transportation was underdeveloped. Thanks to this feeling, this sentence is beloved by people generation by generation.

Chinese Calligraphy Style
English: Running Script
Mandarin: Xingshu

About Talented Disabled Artist Shouxing Wang

How many years does it require to be a great master of Chinese brush calligraphy? 20 to 30 years. Shouxing Wang is from a village in Shandong China and actively lives with paralysis from waist down for nearly thirty years. To fight fate, he developed an interest in Chinese calligraphy art, which is believed to have a very similar effect to Chinese Taichi, cultivating the mind and morality. Now after nearly thirty years of practice, Mr. Wang has won various art competitions and can skillfully master all scripts of Chinese character calligraphy, namely, zhuanshu(seal script), lishu(clerical script), kaishu(regular script), xingshu(running script/semi cursive script) and caoshu(cursive script/grass script).

In addition to Chinese calligraphy art, Master. Wang is also a big fan of various kinds of musical instrument, such as erhu and flute. Master. Wang said, “Life is not fair but you make it fair with your effort and attitude.”

"Initially, practicing calligraphy lifted me out of the pain of losing legs, brought me consolation and gave me courage to face various difficulties in life, and I found new hopes. Now I believe in my future and I shall work harder and promote the calligraphy art form." he said. When he was interviewed by journalists with famous media and asked what it was like to practice calligraphy these years. View More Story

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