Excerpt from I Love You, Chinese Characters

Really, they are not rigid symbols, but elves with unique character. You see, each character has a different flavor. The word "sun" makes you feel heat and power, while "moon" shines with a clear light. The word "light" gives you a sense of floating, while the word "heavy" sinks at first sight. The word "laugh" is cheerful, while the word "cry" looks like tears. The word "frosty" seems to give off a cold air, and the word "deep" makes you seem to enter a forest or a quiet courtyard. When you write the word "man", you cannot help but stand in awe and marvel at the creation of "heaven" and "earth". These shadowy and invisible pictures, these marvelous combinations of horizontal and vertical outlines, are so similar to the temperament of human beings. They enter the imagination in a moment, and then flow out of it, leaving only an endless aftertaste in the memory. These are some cute little elves! And in the pen of the calligrapher, they can give birth to endless changes, or upright as a peak, or bright as a stream, or as vast as the sea, or smooth as fat. They themselves have a kind of wisdom power, a world of imagination, let you fly and gallop to your heart's content. In the ancient river of mankind, which nation can be like the Chinese nation has such a rich calligraphy treasure?