{"id":216,"date":"2020-11-11T03:02:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T03:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hst137stephensocks.stevesocks.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2020-11-11T03:02:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T03:02:34","slug":"calligraphy-collectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hst137stephensocks.stevesocks.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/hst137\/calligraphy-collectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Calligraphy Collectors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been a huge advocate for historic Chinese artifacts. The further we get into this semester, the more I become fascinated by Chinese History. This week we read a post that contained three different collector&#8217;s items. Calligraphy, Ceramics, and Bronzes. I have touched on the last two items but I have not really touched on Calligraphy yet. So this week will be based around Calligraphy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First off, what is Calligraphy? The basic definition of Calligraphy is decorative handwriting or handwritten lettering. Calligraphy was a fairly hot commodity. Who is someone that may be interested in Calligraphy? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The people who would be most interested in Calligraphy would probably be people that are up higher on the social ladder. Calligraphy was considered very popular due to it&#8217;s beautiful looks and meanings. However, what if I told you people tried to fake Calligraphy? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, that is correct, there was &#8220;fraudulent manufacturing&#8221; of Calligraphy. People in the educated class in China learned how to handle a brush just like the famous writers. They also learned how to copy the exact hand motions of these writers.  They even went as far as to recreate the type of paper these famous writers used. They did this to try to make their fake Caligrpahy look as real as possible. The lesson of the day, make sure you look into what you are buying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hst137stephensocks.stevesocks.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Calligraphy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hst137stephensocks.stevesocks.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Calligraphy.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.hst137stephensocks.stevesocks.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Calligraphy-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/artmuseum.princeton.edu\/collections\/objects\/61904\">Calligraphy<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">References<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clunas, Craig.\u00a0<em>Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China<\/em>. Honolulu: Univ Of Hawai&#8217;i Press, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a huge advocate for historic Chinese artifacts. The further we get into this semester, the more I become fascinated by Chinese History. This week we read a post that contained three different collector&#8217;s items. Calligraphy, Ceramics, and Bronzes. I have touched on the last two items but I have not really touched &#8230; <a title=\"Calligraphy Collectors\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hst137stephensocks.stevesocks.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/hst137\/calligraphy-collectors\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Calligraphy Collectors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hst137"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hst137stephensocks.stevesocks.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hst137stephensocks.stevesocks.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hst137stephensocks.stevesocks.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hst137stephensocks.stevesocks.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hst137stephensocks.stevesocks.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.hst137stephensocks.stevesocks.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/www.hst137stephensocks.stevesocks.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hst137stephensocks.stevesocks.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hst137stephensocks.stevesocks.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hst137stephensocks.stevesocks.bergbuilds.domains\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}