Buy a Custom Sisters / Sisterhood Chinese or Japanese Calligraphy Wall Scroll
Note: It's difficult to express just the idea of "sisters" in Chinese and Japanese. This is because the words for "sister" actually mean "older sister" and "younger sister", but there is no generic "sisters". Even if your sister is 1 minute older than you, she is your older sister (and vice versa). Seniority (and respect of elders) is very important in Asian cultures and thus permeates the relationships of brothers and sisters as well.
This is the love between siblings. When you love, protect, care for, and have a deep bond that only brothers or sisters can.
The actual translation is "Hand and Foot" but it is said the relationship between brothers or sisters is like that of hands and feet. They belong together, and complete the body. Even though this says "hand and foot", it will always be read with the brotherly and sisterly love meaning in Chinese.
Note: During the past 20 years, the "One child policy" in China is slowly making this term obsolete.
Impartial & Fair to the Brotherhood & Sisterhood of the World
This is how to write "universal benevolence". This is also how to express the idea that you see all people the same.
If you are kind and charitable to all people, this is the best way to state that virtue. It is the essence of being impartial to all mankind, regardless of social standing, background, race, sex, etc. You do not judge others, but rather you see them eye to eye on the same level with you.
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
Sisterhood / Sisters Relationship
姐妹关系 姐妹關繫
n/a
jiě mèi guān xì jie mei guan xi chieh mei kuan hsi
Impartial & Fair to the Brotherhood & Sisterhood of the World
一视同仁 一視同仁
isshidoujin ishidojin
yí shì tóng rén yi shi tong ren i shih t`ung jen
yi2 shi4 tong2 ren2 yishitongren ishihtungjen i shih tung jen
Sisterhood
姐妹情 姐妹情
n/a
jiě mèi qíng jie mei qing chieh mei ch`ing
jie3 mei4 qing2 jiemeiqing chiehmeiching chieh mei ching
Sisterhood / Association of Women
妇女会 婦女會
fu jo kai fujokai
fù nǚ huì fu nv hui fu nü hui
fu4 nv3 hui4 funvhui
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 "Sisters" 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.
