Usually use the smooth side.

Another saying from my home town, "像煞有介事"

咱们宽厚温和一点吧。

You must be joking 😂😂

JoachimderZweite beautiful means 漂亮 (piào liàng)in Chinese

The demonstrator is writing the strokes slowly for your benefit, so that you can see the subtle movements required to write them correctly. Slow down, relax, take the time to enjoy the video. You might learn something.

Actually her exact quote "This isn't drawing an outline and filling it in, this is writing"

Check yourself before you critique

she does say 'this is not painting or drawing' just before that. and then she does say later 'draw' the stroke....I just checked myself.

I know she means, as I practise Chinese calligraphy and love it, but for those who dont but want to know, it should be correct and consistent as an instructional video.....thats all

fair enough - she said 'you're not drawing and filling it in'......but ironically that's what the calligrapher does at that point.; the 'dian' shouldn't be done like that..it should be a stroke, rather than a 'teardrop' 'pained in' like she actually does - just a bit misleading, confused and not very instructional. I feel for the lady doing the calligraphy as she is probably just a student drafted in to demonstrate..........no bad feeling intended, just think it should be correct and enjoyable, rather than incorrect and rather unnecessarily austere (until the end, where she says 'go for it' - it would be the last thing I would want to do after watching that)

no you can try to learn chinese calligraphy with right hand. actually it's beneficial for your left brain and right brain cos you have chance to practice them all. you have advantage than right handed person cos they dont have that chance!

Being left-handed, I tried to learn with my left hand and everything was ok until I was learning to write the 'nu' stroke. So I switched to learning with the right hand. Tricky but it's getting easier.

Well, I don't know... personally thought she wasn't that bad.... She isn't a MASTER calligrapher... good on the technical side but not on the artistic side.... she does have a few mistakes though... but i appreciate the time she took to do this

chinese calligraphy is not a collective term for anything written with a Chinese brush and Chinese ink. It has its specific ways and rules to follow. This video is good to teach chinese characters as a language to student. When it comes to chinese calligraphy this video lacks the skill, the ways and the results to qualified as “Chinese calligraphy” 90%of the calligraphy videos do not strictly follow the requirements of CG. At least they help to stimulate interests in this ancient art.

Looks like the previous link not avaible any more. But this one probably the same/very similar content... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke_(CJK_character)

I have to agree.

I agree. when I saw how 'dian' was made, that was it.

@Xionkid& Jay Javier + connected ~ i am a kaishu beginner at learning chinese calligraphy and am turning to youtube posts to expedite my learning. I know next to nothing about chinese calligraphy. Since you mentioned this demonstration is one the worst calligraphy you have ever seen. Could you recommend which teacher on youtube has writing that is closest to the ouyang xun writings. Thanks very much.

Connected ... think u got me wrong ...

I wasnt being instructional

Buy a good brush. That happens with the cheap ones... Try to get brushes with harder hair, like wolf hair or horse, avoid goat hair.

Get a proper teacher

不要用小笔写大字。 一般来说，写完钩都要舔一下笔，一些大型的笔画如浮鹅钩，写完后舔笔整理笔毫也是正常的。 please use the work "write" instead of "draw".

Look at how I do it

***** Oh, whoops... Wrong anatomy!