The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title
Characters
Romaji (Romanized Japanese)
Various forms of Romanized Chinese
...And this above all to thine own self be true
尤其要緊的你必須對你自己忠實尤其要紧的你必须对你自己忠实
yóu qí yào jǐn de nǐ bì xū duì nǐ zì jǐ zhōng shíyou2 qi2 yao4 jin3 de ni3 bi4 xu1 dui4 ni3 zi4 ji3 zhong1 shi2you qi yao jin de ni bi xu dui ni zi ji zhong shi
yu ch`i yao chin te ni pi hsü tui ni tzu chi chung shihyu chi yao chin te ni pi hsü tui ni tzu chi chung shih
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese.
When the calligrapher finishes creating your artwork, it is taken to my 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.
Allow a few weeks for delivery. Rush service speeds it up by a week or two for $10!
When you select your calligraphy, you'll be taken to another page where you can choose various custom options.
The wall scroll that Sandy is holding in this picture is a "large size" single-character wall scroll. We also offer custom wall scrolls in small, medium, and an even-larger jumbo size.
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.
Some people may refer to this entry as ...and This Above All to Thine Own Self Be True Kanji, ...and This Above All to Thine Own Self Be True Characters, ...and This Above All to Thine Own Self Be True in Mandarin Chinese, ...and This Above All to Thine Own Self Be True Characters, ...and This Above All to Thine Own Self Be True in Chinese Writing, ...and This Above All to Thine Own Self Be True in Japanese Writing, ...and This Above All to Thine Own Self Be True in Asian Writing, ...and This Above All to Thine Own Self Be True Ideograms, Chinese ...and This Above All to Thine Own Self Be True symbols, ...and This Above All to Thine Own Self Be True Hieroglyphics, ...and This Above All to Thine Own Self Be True Glyphs, ...and This Above All to Thine Own Self Be True in Chinese Letters, ...and This Above All to Thine Own Self Be True Hanzi, ...and This Above All to Thine Own Self Be True in Japanese Kanji, ...and This Above All to Thine Own Self Be True Pictograms, ...and This Above All to Thine Own Self Be True in the Chinese Written-Language, or ...and This Above All to Thine Own Self Be True in the Japanese Written-Language.
