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With those is the venerable technique, combining speed, pressure, direction, stroke order—and knowing the darn language. A tomb excavation in Lintong, Shaanxi province tells us that that Chinese calligraphy dates to the Yangshao culture six to seven thousand years ago—basically to the edges of...