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李小龍 is the real full name of Bruce Lee.
Many people have no idea that Bruce Lee had a “real” Chinese name. In Mandarin and Cantonese, he is known as “Lǐ XiǎoLóng” and “Léi SíuLùng” respectively.
He kept his family name pronunciation (Li = Lee). 李 is a common family name that also means “plum.”
His given name 小龍 (Xiao-Long), literally means “little dragon.” 李小龍 is why you often see the character for dragon associated with Bruce Lee on various posters etc.
For a pronunciation lesson, the “X” in Romanized Mandarin is pronounced like a “sh” sound but with your tongue at the bottom of your mouth. The vowel sound in “Long” is like the English “oh,” not like the “ah” sound in the English word “long.”
If you are a big Bruce Lee fan, you should know this information, and you should have this wall scroll hanging in your room or martial arts studio.
Note: Japanese use these same Chinese characters / Kanji to write Bruce Lee's real name (with different pronunciation - which is a bit like how the name “Bruce Lee” sounds in English).
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I was going to write this phrase as “God is with me always” but as a wall scroll, hanging in your room, it is talking to you (you're not talking), so it works better with you.
上帝總是與你同在 is a nice phrase that any Chinese Christian would enjoy on his/her wall.
If I annotate this, it sounds a little strange in English but it's perfectly natural in Chinese:
上帝 God | 总是 always | 与 and | 你 you | 同 together | 在 existing
Cho Wa
調和 is one of the several ways to express harmony in Chinese and Japanese.
Note: The first character means harmony but also suggests a musical meaning. It can also describe warriors marching in perfect cadence (in step) or to regulate something.
The second character carries the meaning of harmony and peace by itself.
Together, these characters create a word that can be defined as harmonious, to mediate, to reconcile, to compromise; mediation, temper, to mix, blend, blended, season, seasoning (getting the flavors of the food in balance), to placate, or be in harmonious proportion.
The meaning varies depending on the context. However, when hanging as a wall scroll, this will refer to the person (you) being balanced and in harmony while rational and under control simultaneously.
地獄 is the way that hell is written in modern Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.
There's more than one way to express hell, but this is the one that has stood the test of time.
The first character refers to the ground or the earth.
The second character means jail or prison.
You can also translate this word as infernal, inferno, Hades, or underworld.
It should be noted that this is a somewhat terrible selection for a wall scroll. Hanging this in your home is like telling the world that your home is hell. Oddly, many people search for this on our website, so I added it for reference.
Ancient way to say Hell
陰司 is the ancient way to say “Hell” or “Netherworld” in Chinese.
This title can also refer to the officials of Hell or the judges of Hades or the Netherworld.
Please note that this is a somewhat terrible selection for a wall scroll. Hanging this in your home is like telling the world that your home is hell. Oddly, a lot of people search for this on my website, so I added it for reference.
A state of mind
入靜 is used in Taoism and Qi Gong to describe the state you can reach while sitting quietly in meditation. It contains the idea of achieving a highly-tranquil and peaceful state. Some may describe this state as “sleeping while still awake.”
If you have a relaxation or meditation room, this is the calming wall scroll that you would want hanging in that room.
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Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your hanging scroll search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
幛 see styles |
zhàng zhang4 chang |
hanging scroll |
軸 轴 see styles |
zhòu zhou4 chou jiku じく |
see 壓軸戲|压轴戏[ya1 zhou4 xi4]; Taiwan pr. [zhou2] (n,n-suf) (1) axis; shaft; axle; (2) center; centre; focal point; key point; (3) stalk; stem; (4) (See 掛け物・かけもの・1) hanging scroll a roller for a scroll |
喜幛 see styles |
xǐ zhàng xi3 zhang4 hsi chang |
celebratory hanging scroll |
掛物 see styles |
kakemono かけもの |
(1) hanging scroll; (2) sugared sweets; (3) quilt |
掛軸 挂轴 see styles |
guà zhóu gua4 zhou2 kua chou kakejiku かけじく |
hanging scroll (calligraphy or painting) hanging scroll |
条幅 see styles |
joufuku / jofuku じょうふく |
type of hanging scroll (made from paper of approx. 130cm x 30cm in size) |
軸物 see styles |
jikumono じくもの |
(hanging) scroll |
風鎮 see styles |
fuuchin / fuchin ふうちん |
hanging-scroll weight |
掛け字 see styles |
kakeji かけじ |
hanging scroll |
掛け物 see styles |
kakemono かけもの |
(1) hanging scroll; (2) sugared sweets; (3) quilt |
掛け軸 see styles |
kakejiku かけじく |
hanging scroll |
茶掛け see styles |
chagake ちゃがけ |
hanging scroll in a tea-ceremony room |
諸飾り see styles |
morokazari もろかざり |
(1) decorating the alcove of a tea room with a hanging scroll and flowers (in more formal tea ceremonies, during only the first and second half respectively); (2) (orig. meaning) style of decorating a traditional Japanese room (esp. a study) in which incense, a pair of vases and a pair of candlesticks are placed on a table in front of a trio of hanging scrolls |
Variations: |
kakemono かけもの |
(1) hanging scroll; kakemono; (2) bed covering (quilt, futon, blanket, etc.); (3) sugared sweets |
Variations: |
kakejiku かけじく |
hanging scroll |
Variations: |
kakekaeru かけかえる |
(transitive verb) (1) to replace (a picture, sign, hanging scroll, etc.); to substitute; to take down (an old picture, etc.) and put up a new one; to rebuild (a bridge); (transitive verb) (2) to move (a picture, etc.) to another location; to hang somewhere else |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Bruce Lee | 李小龍 李小龙 | bu ruu su ri buruusuri bu ru su ri | lǐ xiǎo lóng li3 xiao3 long2 li xiao long lixiaolong | li hsiao lung lihsiaolung |
God Is With You Always | 上帝總是與你同在 上帝总是与你同在 | shàn dì zǒng shì yǔ nǐ tóng zài shan4 di4 zong3 shi4 yu3 ni3 tong2 zai4 shan di zong shi yu ni tong zai shandizongshiyunitongzai | shan ti tsung shih yü ni t`ung tsai shan ti tsung shih yü ni tung tsai |
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Harmony Balance | 調和 调和 | chou wa / chouwa / cho wa | tiáo hé / tiao2 he2 / tiao he / tiaohe | t`iao ho / tiaoho / tiao ho |
Hell | 地獄 地狱 | jigoku | dì yù / di4 yu4 / di yu / diyu | ti yü / tiyü |
Hell Judges of Hell | 陰司 阴司 | yīn sī / yin1 si1 / yin si / yinsi | yin ssu / yinssu | |
Sit Quietly in Meditation | 入靜 入静 | rù jìng / ru4 jing4 / ru jing / rujing | ju ching / juching | |
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. |
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All of our calligraphy wall scrolls are handmade.
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.
Check out my lists of Japanese Kanji Calligraphy Wall Scrolls and Old Korean Hanja Calligraphy Wall Scrolls.
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