Daily Writing Research

The task of this paper is to re-understand calligraphy by the perspective of everyday writing. Everyday writing is important for Chinese calligraphy, because it is essentially a kind of art that grow up in the soil of everyday writing. Thanks to everyday writing, calligraphy is been firmly bond to everyday life; thanks to everyday writing, people view calligraphy as a supreme art under the Chinese traditional culture context, which highly praise a philosophy of uniting the most wise and mean. So this philosophy which makes natural Tao as its supreme paradigm also gives everyday life a privilege status. And the important concept "san" in the calligraphy theory is also an important concept in Chinese philosophy, and I will trace this concept to find out how it connects to calligraphy and everyday writing. But finally we will be back to the question "what is calligraphy?" And I will answer this question by considering Chinese calligraphy as a "poetic of gesture". If we want to understand everyday writing, we have to consider it through language and character, because the Chinese culture has endowed Chinese character with divinity, and by this way it endows calligraphy with divinity and makes it a kind of holy and poetic writing.So, what exactly does everyday writing means? Since it grows out of the using of language, so firstly everyday writing means its adherence to language and character. It is unconscious, non-reflective, repetitive, and successive, at the same time various and full of contingency. It escapes the control of the governing of dominating ideology, expanding its field to the world of the anonymous. Within the connection of everyday writing and non-everyday writing, the artistic self-consciousness of calligraphy plays a key role, which makes it necessary to closely examine this subject. And we will find the paradoxical relation between calligraphy and its artistic self-consciousness:the more it become self-conscious, the more it far away from everyday writing and nature. But the works of the period of Wei Jin show the ideal status of everyday writing. And the phenomenon of scribble and the writing play in the works of Mifu, should be read in the horizon of everyday writing.Chinese calligraphy is just under the period of post-everyday writing, after the huge changes have taken place in the 20th century in the Chinese society. But at the same time, it appears some artistic practices that are concerning the subject of everyday writing that we should take a close look at them. Repairing the break between calligraphy and its nature would be the fundamental question that facing the people in the period of post-everyday writing.