Chinese calligraphy lesson: the eight basic Chinese strokes （English explanation）

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In Chinese calligraphy, three are eight basic strokes, which most of other strokes were developed based on. And the Chinese character 永Yǒng (means forever) covers all this eight strokes, which is known as 永字八法yǒng zì bā fǎ (eight Chinese calligraphy methods included in the Chinese character Yǒng). This Chinese calligraphy tutorial will give you a detailed introduction of these eight methods. This is the time-table of this video calligraphy lesson:

0:00:08.490 -- 0:01:02.910 Four treasures of writing Chinese calligraphy
0:01:14.960 -- 0:02:09.670 Demonstration of writing Chinese character Yǒng, means forever.
0:02:25.470 -- 0:03:15.829 Details of basic calligraphy stroke Diǎn, dot
0:03:10.010 -- 0:04:30.300 Details of basic calligraphy stroke Héng, horizontal stroke
0:04:20.609-- 0:05:40.700 Details of basic calligraphy stroke Shù, vertical stroke
0:05:40.700 -- 0:06:28.870 Details of basic calligraphy stroke Gōu, hook
0:06:31.840- 0:09:35.680 Details of basic calligraphy stroke Tí, slash moving up from southwest to northeast fast, and long Piě, long slash moving down from the northeast to the southwest fast
0:09:50.760 -- 0:10:48.140 Details of basic calligraphy stroke Duǎn Piě, short slash moving down from the northeast to the southwest
0:10:56.840 -- 0:12:59.640 Details of basic calligraphy stroke Nà, slash moving from the northwest to the southeast.

By the way, there are many writing styles and calligraphy styles in Chinese calligraphy, the writing style that I showed you in this video is called kǎishū, which is considered as the regular script in Chinese writing system since 2000 years ago, and it didn’t changed a lot in the past 2000 years.