Kindred Spirit

Oct. 19, 2025

Why Do Chinese People Are Crazy About Handwriting

In China, we care about handwriting a lot. There's an old saying “字如其人”, which means your handwriting represent who you are and it tells your personality. Some even use it for psychology analysis purpose. I'm wondering if it can apply to crime analysis too.🤔

Most Chinese people are ashamed of bad handwriting because it usually related to uneducated or uncultured. Having a beautiful handwriting is important for us.

In school, we have calligraphy lessons. We use Xuan paper(宣纸), black ink, and Chinese brush(毛笔) which is usually made of fur of wolf, rabbit or sheep to practice traditional Chinese calligraphy. But that is only for art purpose, and not important for exam, so our Chinese teacher, maths teacher, English teacher and those who think their subject is more important can always take up calligraphy lessons easily, claiming that our calligraphy teacher is sick. Well, what can we say? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Besides that, we have to practice our Chinese and English handwriting everyday by using copybooks(字帖) in preparation for exams. Because if our handwriting is too bad, the computer won't be able to scan it clearly, then teachers can't identify what we wrote which will leave us bad grades.

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There's an old saying “字如其人”, which means your handwriting represents who you are and it tells your personality.

Some even use it for psychologyical analysis purposes.

Most Chinese people are ashamed of bad handwriting because it usually related to being uneducated or uncultured.

Having a beautiful handwriting is important for us.

We use Xuan paper(宣纸), black ink, and a Chinese brush(毛笔) which is usually made of fur of wolf, rabbit, or sheep fur to practice traditional Chinese calligraphy.

But that is only for art purposes, and not important for exams, so our Chinese teacher, maths teacher, English teacher and those who think their subject is more important can always take up calligraphy lessons easily, claiming that our calligraphy teacher is sick.

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Very interesting!

Why Do Chinese People Are Crazy About Handwriting

In China, we care about handwriting a lot.

There's an old saying “字如其人”, which means your handwriting represents who you are and (it) tells your personality.

It would sound more natural without "it".

Some even use it for psychologyical analysis purposes.

I'm wondering if it can apply to crime analysis too.🤔

Most Chinese people are ashamed of bad handwriting because it usually related toimplies they are uneducated or uncultured.

Having a beautiful handwriting is important for us.

In school, we have calligraphy lessons.

We use Xuan paper (宣纸), black ink, and Chinese brush (毛笔), which is usually made of the fur of a wolf, rabbit or sheep, to practice traditional Chinese calligraphy.

Insert a space before each left parenthesis mark.

But that is only for artistic purposes, and is not important for exams, so our Chinese teacher, maths teacher, English teacher and those who think their subject is more important can always take up(?) calligraphy lessons easily, claiming that our calligraphy teacher is sick.

Sorry, I don't understand "take up" in this context? Do you mean these Chinese, English, etc. teachers will teach you calligraphy when the calligraphy teacher is sick? Or will they teach their own subjects during the class period when you would normally study calligraphy?

Well, what can we say? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Besides that, we have to practice our Chinese and English handwriting every day by using copybooks (字帖) in preparation for exams.

"Every day" (two words) does not meant the same thing as "everyday" (one word).

BThis is because if our handwriting is too bad, the computer won't be able to scan it clearly, and then the teachers cawon't identifybe able to read / decipher what we wrote whichand will leagive us bad grades.

Kindred Spirit

Oct. 21, 2025

Thank you!
Could you tell me what's the difference between ''every day'' and ''everyday''?😵

And for ''take up'', I mean the teachers will teach their own subjects when we would study calligraphy lessons at that time. Can I say ''the math teacher occupied the calligraphy class''? or how to express this in English?

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JoeTofu

Oct. 21, 2025

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“Everyday” is an adjective, similar to “日常的”.
“Every day” is like “每天” and usually functions as a noun in a sentence.

Dynamo’s correction to your “take up” phrase seems good to me. It’s hard to make a better correction without knowing the full context.…

Kindred Spirit

Oct. 21, 2025

thank you for the explanation!

Why Do Chinese People Are Crazy About Handwriting

There's an old saying “字如其人”, which means your handwriting represents who you are and it tells your personality.

Some even use it for the purpose of psychologyical analysis purpose.

Moving a few of these words around a bit makes the sentence read a lot more smoothly.

I'm wondering if it canould apply to crime analysis too.🤔

Most Chinese people are ashamed of bad handwriting because it is usually related to being uneducated or uncultured.

Adding "being" here makes the uneducated or uncultured work here. Not sure of a better way to explain the rule behind that though sorry.

HBecause of this, having a beautiful handwriting is important forto us.

Adding "because of this" helps tie all of your individual points together.

But thatcalligraphy is only for art purposes, and not important for exam, so our Chinese teacher, maths teacher, English teacher and thoses, so any teacher who thinks their subject is more important can always take up the time for calligraphy lessons easily, claiming that our calligraphy teacher is sick.

I had a little bit of trouble with the meaning of this sentence. I think you're saying that other teachers can take the time that would normally be for calligraphy class? This isn't something that happens in US schools as far as I recall which is probably the source of my confusion. I made changes with this assumption in mind. I also think listing out all of the different kinds of teachers is unnecessary if you end with "any teacher" so I shortened it a bit to be more concise.

Because if our handwriting is too bad, the computer won't be able to scan it clearly, then. Then the teachers can't identify what we wrote which will leave usresult in bad grades.

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Overall, the message was clear. Mostly some minor nitpicky stuff and tweaking for ease of reading.

Kindred Spirit

Oct. 21, 2025

Yes! That's exactly what I was trying to express. Thank you so much!

Why Do Chinese People Are Crazy About Handwriting


Why Do Chinese People Are Crazy About Handwriting

Why Do Chinese People Are Crazy About Handwriting

In China, we care about handwriting a lot.


This sentence has been marked as perfect!

There's an old saying “字如其人”, which means your handwriting represent who you are and it tells your personality.


There's an old saying “字如其人”, which means your handwriting represents who you are and it tells your personality.

There's an old saying “字如其人”, which means your handwriting represents who you are and (it) tells your personality.

It would sound more natural without "it".

There's an old saying “字如其人”, which means your handwriting represents who you are and it tells your personality.

Some even use it for psychology analysis purpose.


Some even use it for the purpose of psychologyical analysis purpose.

Moving a few of these words around a bit makes the sentence read a lot more smoothly.

Some even use it for psychologyical analysis purposes.

Some even use it for psychologyical analysis purposes.

I'm wondering if it can apply to crime analysis too.🤔


I'm wondering if it canould apply to crime analysis too.🤔

This sentence has been marked as perfect!

Most Chinese people are ashamed of bad handwriting because it usually related to uneducated or uncultured.


Most Chinese people are ashamed of bad handwriting because it is usually related to being uneducated or uncultured.

Adding "being" here makes the uneducated or uncultured work here. Not sure of a better way to explain the rule behind that though sorry.

Most Chinese people are ashamed of bad handwriting because it usually related toimplies they are uneducated or uncultured.

Most Chinese people are ashamed of bad handwriting because it usually related to being uneducated or uncultured.

Having a beautiful handwriting is important for us.


HBecause of this, having a beautiful handwriting is important forto us.

Adding "because of this" helps tie all of your individual points together.

Having a beautiful handwriting is important for us.

Having a beautiful handwriting is important for us.

In school, we have calligraphy lessons.


This sentence has been marked as perfect!

We use Xuan paper(宣纸), black ink, and Chinese brush(毛笔) which is usually made of fur of wolf, rabbit or sheep to practice traditional Chinese calligraphy.


We use Xuan paper (宣纸), black ink, and Chinese brush (毛笔), which is usually made of the fur of a wolf, rabbit or sheep, to practice traditional Chinese calligraphy.

Insert a space before each left parenthesis mark.

We use Xuan paper(宣纸), black ink, and a Chinese brush(毛笔) which is usually made of fur of wolf, rabbit, or sheep fur to practice traditional Chinese calligraphy.

But that is only for art purpose, and not important for exam, so our Chinese teacher, maths teacher, English teacher and those who think their subject is more important can always take up calligraphy lessons easily, claiming that our calligraphy teacher is sick.


But thatcalligraphy is only for art purposes, and not important for exam, so our Chinese teacher, maths teacher, English teacher and thoses, so any teacher who thinks their subject is more important can always take up the time for calligraphy lessons easily, claiming that our calligraphy teacher is sick.

I had a little bit of trouble with the meaning of this sentence. I think you're saying that other teachers can take the time that would normally be for calligraphy class? This isn't something that happens in US schools as far as I recall which is probably the source of my confusion. I made changes with this assumption in mind. I also think listing out all of the different kinds of teachers is unnecessary if you end with "any teacher" so I shortened it a bit to be more concise.

But that is only for artistic purposes, and is not important for exams, so our Chinese teacher, maths teacher, English teacher and those who think their subject is more important can always take up(?) calligraphy lessons easily, claiming that our calligraphy teacher is sick.

Sorry, I don't understand "take up" in this context? Do you mean these Chinese, English, etc. teachers will teach you calligraphy when the calligraphy teacher is sick? Or will they teach their own subjects during the class period when you would normally study calligraphy?

But that is only for art purposes, and not important for exams, so our Chinese teacher, maths teacher, English teacher and those who think their subject is more important can always take up calligraphy lessons easily, claiming that our calligraphy teacher is sick.

Well, what can we say? 🤷🏻‍♀️


This sentence has been marked as perfect!

Besides that, we have to practice our Chinese and English handwriting everyday by using copybooks(字帖) in preparation for exams.


Besides that, we have to practice our Chinese and English handwriting every day by using copybooks (字帖) in preparation for exams.

"Every day" (two words) does not meant the same thing as "everyday" (one word).

Because if our handwriting is too bad, the computer won't be able to scan it clearly, then teachers can't identify what we wrote which will leave us bad grades.


Because if our handwriting is too bad, the computer won't be able to scan it clearly, then. Then the teachers can't identify what we wrote which will leave usresult in bad grades.

BThis is because if our handwriting is too bad, the computer won't be able to scan it clearly, and then the teachers cawon't identifybe able to read / decipher what we wrote whichand will leagive us bad grades.

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