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![]() This is the name of the earth (our planet) in Chinese, old Korean Hanja and Japanese Kanji. This is earth, soil, ground or Terra. ![]() ![]() This four-character phrase suggests that you should be practical, realistic, and grounded. Some translate this as a suggestion to be down-to-earth. ![]() This is the title of the five elements which are: wood, fire, water, earth and metal. The first character means "5" and the second character is simply "elements". See Also... Wood | Fire | Water | Metal | Five Elements ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a list of the Chinese characters for the five elements in a comfortable order (meaning that they simply "feel right" to a Chinese person who views this arrangement). ![]() This is the specifically-Japanese version of the five elements. This is a little different than the ancient or original Chinese version. |

Deadliest of the Four Beauties of Ancient China.
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The Chinese title written on this artwork means "Couple's Gaze". These two birds are catching a glimpse of each other.
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This depicts some boys enjoying the Chinese zither being played by an elder.
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This depicts men enjoying tea. The title suggests that it is a quality white tea (tea made from very young leaves).
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A couple of ducks relax in the shade of lilies and lotus flowers.
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The man in the tea pot loved tea so much that he decided to live inside his tea pot. The deeper meaning suggests that if there is something you really love in life, make it the focus of your life.
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Certainly this painting is done with a lot of fantasy at heart. Even though China is a big country, the pumpkins do not quite dwarf the chickens like this.
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Deadliest of the Four Beauties of Ancient China.
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In 487BC Xi Shi was born to a tea trader from a mountain village in what today is known as the Zhejiang Province of China.
She was always known for her beauty from a young age...
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This colorful handmade batik features a beautiful woman of southern China. She seems to be dancing with the cranes in the scene depicted here.
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The Chinese title basically means "Guanyin Bodhisattva" (Buddha).
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This painting depicts a group of Chinese villagers as they prepare the huge harvest of hot Sichuan peppers.
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A group of workers from the village swing their sickles to reap the harvest of millet.
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The berries, fruits, nuts, and vegetables the grow on the mountain above this village are being gathered.
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These are Chinese persimmons which are a bit different than the ones we enjoy in the west. They have a leather-like orange skin, and are filled with jelly-like juice that you can squeeze directly into your mouth to enjoy.
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All of our calligraphy is completely done by hand in the ancient way.
When the calligrapher finishes creating your artwork, it is taken to our art mounting workshop in Beijing where a wall scroll is made by hand from a combination of silk, rice paper, and wood.
After we create your wall scroll, it takes at least two weeks for air mail delivery from Beijing to you.
Therefore, allow a few weeks for delivery from the time you place your order. Rush options are available!
When you select your calligraphy, you'll be taken to another page where you can choose various custom options.
The scroll that I am holding in this picture is a "medium size"
4-character wall scroll.
As you can see, it is a great size to hang on your wall.
(We also offer custom wall scrolls in larger sizes)
Professional calligraphers are getting to be hard to find these days.
Instead of drawing characters by hand, the new generation in China merely type roman letters into their computer keyboards and pick the character that they want from a list that pops up.
There is some fear that true Chinese calligraphy may become a lost art in the coming years. Many art institutes in China are now promoting calligraphy programs in hopes of keeping this unique form
of art alive.
Even with the teachings of a top-ranked calligrapher in China, my calligraphy will never be good enough to sell. I will leave that to the experts.
The same calligrapher who gave me those lessons also attracted a crowd of thousands and a TV crew as he created characters over 6-feet high. He happens to be ranked as one of the top 100 calligraphers in all of China. He is also one of very few that would actually attempt such a feat.
The following table is only helpful for those studying Chinese (or Japanese), and perhaps helps search engines to find this page when someone enters Romanized Chinese or Japanese
| Title | Characters Simplified Traditional |
Japanese Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| Earth | 地球 地球 | chi kyuu chikyuu chi kyu | dì qiú di qiu ti ch`iu | di4 qiu2 diqiu tichiu ti chiu |
| Earth | 土 土 | tsuchi | tǔ tu t`u | tu3 tu tu tu |
| Keep Your Feet on the Ground | 脚踏实地 腳踏實地 | n/a | jiǎo tà shí dì jiao ta shi di chiao t`a shih ti | jiao3 ta4 shi2 di4 jiaotashidi chiaotashihti chiao ta shih ti |
| Five Elements | 五行 五行 | gogyou gogyo | wǔ xíng wu xing wu hsing | wu3 xing2 wuxing |
| Five Elements | 金木水火土 金木水火土 | n/a | jīn mù shuǐ huǒ tǔ jin mu shui huo tu chin mu shui huo t`u | jin1 mu4 shui3 huo3 tu3 jinmushuihuotu chinmushuihuotu chin mu shui huo tu |
| Five Elements (Japanese) | 地水火风空 地水火風空 | chi sui ka fuu kuu chisuikafuukuu chi sui ka fu ku | n/a | |
If you have not set up your computer to display Chinese, the characters in this table probably look like empty boxes or random text garbage.
This is why I spent hundreds of hours making images so that you could view the characters in the "earth / the world" listings above.
If you want your Windows computer to be able to display Chinese characters you can either head to your Regional and Language options in your Win XP control panel, select the [Languages] tab and click on [Install files for East Asian Languages]. This task will ask for your Win XP CD to complete in most cases. If you don't have your Windows XP CD, or are running Windows 98, you can also download/run the simplified Chinese font package installer from Microsoft which works independently with Win 98, ME, 2000, and XP. It's a 2.5MB download, so if you are on dial up, start the download and go make a sandwich.
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