Viet Tam But calligraphy club was founded in 2004 by Kieu Quoc Khanh, a fashion designer, because of Vietnamese love and then attached to Vietnamese calligraphy. The “charm” began when in 2000, Kieu Quoc Khanh visited acquaintances in Ho Chi Minh City. When walking through the street for words, looking at the Chinese scriptures, he was immediately “fascinated” by the curving lines.
Returning to work, Kieu Quoc Khanh cherished the dream of developing National language calligraphy in the North. He shifted from playing Chinese calligraphy to Vietnamese calligraphy, setting up young calligraphy groups, opening many classes of calligraphy for free. After careful preparation, in 2004, UNESCO Viet Tam But calligraphy club was officially established by Kieu Quoc Khanh as Chairman. The club is a meeting place for Vietnamese calligraphy lovers, honoring Vietnamese beauty, thereby spreading elegant entertainment to the community. Currently, the club has more than 40 members, activing once a month. Besides, the club also invited other clubs to exchange calligraphy. The good news is that the Vietnamese calligraphy classes of the club have been organized not only in Hanoi but also in many provinces and cities. Every year, many members of the club are allowed to participate in writing letters at the Spring Literature Association (held at Lake Van), and are trusted by many people to seek letters.
In fact, the National language calligraphy has a common sense because of its ease of understanding, because it is simply Vietnamese words written with artistic curves in the ideas of the author. However, writing a beautiful calligraphy requires writers to have certain knowledge and research. According to Mr. Khanh, the difficulty of writing calligraphy is the curved and round lines. On the other hand, since Vietnamese characters are matched from many letters, the size of each character is different, creating a balance of letters is the most difficult when wring Vietnamese calligraphy.
If the Chinese calligraphy has standard patterns, Vietnamese characters do not follow a certain pattern. The same word but under the hand of talent and the writer’s idea, will produce different works. The profession is also very elaborate, as Mr. Khanh said: “Depending on the words that the writer stylized, he formed a mountain and waterfall shape. It requires every gamer to constantly explore new things. ” Since 2017, Mr. Khanh is no longer the Chairman of the Calligraphy Club of UNESCO Viet Tam But but he is still attached to, living with the club and assisting the club with the role of advisor. His dreams and cherishes continue to be preserved and promoted by his student – Bui Chinh Hung. And also because of his love of Vietnamese language, Mr. Hung created many intellectual games related to calligraphy in which the most typical one is Vietnamese word game. The game uses 54 integrated calligraphic cards. This is an intellectual crystallization product of integration thinking on Vietnamese calligraphic cards with the aim of bringing Vietnamese calligraphy into life’s application, helping people to improve their intellectual level to be more successful in learning and working. , life. If you have the right mindset, good method, real action, the result will be successful.
Vietnamese calligraphy is increasingly asserting its position, becoming a hobby, cultural beauty in the daily life of Hanoi people and tourists, especially every Tet comes Spring returns. Over the past 14 years, members of UNESCO Viet Tam But club have always practiced according to the club’s principles, constantly learning, exploring and expressing their love and enthusiasm for Vietnamese words through each work. The number of people applying for letters increases every year is the encouragement and recognition for the efforts of the club members.
Another spring is coming. Out there, peaches were blossomed, the streets were full of Spring atmosphere. In the journey to Ky Hoi Spring 2019, stopping at the Spring Festival, there will be many people coming to the booth to write calligraphy in National Language. Looking to this elegant hobby, release yourself into his talent and skill through every character, to feel in every Vietnamese calligraphy work, national love and pride; In order to better understand the aspirations of those who love Vietnamese calligraphy of the Calligraphy Club of UNESCO Viet Tam But, it is sent to the poems:
“Borrow the word to show your heart.”
Borrowing the words that express our love
Bold momentum of the Vietnamese language
The gift of giving away from the invitation
Nguyen Tam