The legendarily ugly Ōuyáng Xún was a practitioner of this artform who designed the kāiyuán tōngbǎo coin. Lady Wèi Shuò’s concept of Seven Powers describing this artform evolved into the Eight Principles of Yǒng. A practitioner of this artform who allegedly learned to turn his wrist while watching geese was one of its Four Worthies and named Wáng Xīzhī (“wong shee juh”), who specialized in its (*) “running hand” style. The Four Treasures of the Study refer to items used in this artform, such as a stone used to grind sticks made of animal glue and soot also used in ink wash painting. Many practitioners of this art form produced cǎoshū (“tsao-shoo”), a difficult to read cursive script. For 10 points, name this art form of producing Chinese characters. ■END■
ANSWER: Chinese calligraphy [or shūfǎ]
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