Re: fengxing (was Re: Familynames (was [OT] Re: Conlangea Dreaming)

>From: czHANg <fengxing-czhang@...>
>Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 13:31:15 -0700
>
>Thanx... ::wry grinnage::
>
I like that response!

> >
> >  Adam whose Chinese name is Hua4 Ren2jia2
> >
>
>nifty... what does it roughly mean... if at all... 0_o?
>
Well Hua4 is the character normally read Hua1 which means "flower" or
"China".  Ren2 is the character written with the "person" radical on the
left and the number "two" on the right which means "kindness".  Jia2 is the
character which means "excellent" or "great" and is written in radically
(pun intended) different ways in Real vs. Mutilated characters.  For that
matter Hua4 is "radically different too.

This question is sorta in between conlang and conculture, but how do your
cultures treat the written word?  In the west calligraphy is seen as an
craft.  In China it is an art.  Thursday night at the nightmarket, I bought
this beautiful four-color painting of my Chinese name.  The artist did them
while you watched.  She made a beautiful tropical painting of birds and
sunsets and bamboos and fish and shrimps and flowers, etc.  Do your confolk
treat their writing as art?

Adam

>czHANg
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