Adventures in Asian Art
We've carefully transliterated Summer into Mandarin and can offer many custom Chinese calligraphy options for Summer.
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This is the word/character used to describe the Autumn or Fall season in Chinese and Japanese. See Also... Winter | Spring | Four Seasons ![]() ![]() This is one way to express "The Four Seasons " or "All Year Round ". This is the word/character used to describe the Summer season in Chinese, Korean and Japanese. |
This depicts many Chinese families visiting the Ba-Da-Ling area of the Great Wall in Northern China in the warm summer, just north of Beijing.
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The Chinese title written on this artwork means "Summer Wishes", "Essence of Summer" or "Spirit of Summer".
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The Chinese title written on this artwork means "Summer Wishes" or "Essence of Summer".
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"Summer Song" or "Summer Singing" is the translation of the simple Chinese title of this piece.
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"Summer Song" or "Summer Singing" is the translation of the simple Chinese title of this piece.
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This is the very green and lush Summer version of another title by this artist, called "Autumn Flight".
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This white silk brocade wall scroll depicts a very green and lush Summer scene of flying cranes.
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This silk wall scroll is the very green and lush Summer version of another title in this collection, called "Autumn Flight".
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This silk brocade wall scroll depicts a very green and lush Summer scene of flying cranes.
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This silk brocade wall scroll depicts a very green and lush Summer scene of flying cranes.
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This handmade batik features an exotic and sexy Asian woman wearing as little clothing as possible in the warm South China Summer.
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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 | |
| Autumn / Fall | 秋 秋 | aki | qiū qiu ch`iu | qiu1 qiu chiu chiu |
| The Four Seasons | 春夏秋冬 春夏秋冬 | shunkashuutou shunkashuto | chūn xià qiū dōng chun xia qiu dong ch`un hsia ch`iu tung | chun1 xia4 qiu1 dong1 chunxiaqiudong chunhsiachiutung chun hsia chiu tung |
| Summer | 夏 夏 | natsu | xià xia hsia | xia4 xia |
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 "summer" 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.
Some people may refer to this entry as Kanji, Characters, in Mandarin Chinese, Characters, in Chinese Writing, in Japanese Writing, in Asian Writing, Ideograms, Chinese symbols, Hieroglyphics, Glyphs, in Chinese Letters, Hanzi, in Japanese Kanji, Pictograms, in the Chinese Written-Language, or in the Japanese Written-Language.
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