The 18th and 19th centuries are called the age of actual state in which a glorious improvement was made by revealing Chosun's traditional colors as much as possible. The calligraphy also had its indigenous handwriting boom in this age during the latte...
The 18th and 19th centuries are called the age of actual state in which a glorious improvement was made by revealing Chosun's traditional colors as much as possible. The calligraphy also had its indigenous handwriting boom in this age during the latter part of Chosun dynasty with so called Okdong Special Essay as its starting point. These footholds had laid cultural foundation with Sukjong era as their basis and prospered at Young·Jeongjo era. These trends are clearly shown on various cultural aspects over this period as a whole. For example the national painting style called "Jingungsansu" and the national writing style called "Donggukjinche" had appeared. For these interests for the culture as a whole, the calligraphy was not an exception. Jeongjo had made his dedicated efforts to recover "Wangheeji" as he criticized the scattered and impure letter shape of those times with the usage of calligraphy and these features can be found at "Restoration of Calligraphy" which had been attempted in addition to the "Restoration of Literary Style". He also thought that only with the human race who consider academics as their foundation, one's true character could be seen through handwriting and he had tried to purify the human nature through the handwriting.