30 years of economic development at breakneck speed has left modern Chinese society lacking ways to unwind. Amidst the frenzy of daily life, a traditional form of artistic expression, calligraphy, just might be the next answer to the modern day call for stress relief.

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Feature: Calligraphy Therapy

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett recently called for all billionaires to give away half of their wealth. Here in China a guy called Wang Zhenyao took note. Wang, the head of China’s first philanthropic research institute, is calling on all Chinese billionaires to donate a million yuan, or about $150,000 US dollars a year to charity. Wang says multimillionaires should give the equivalent of about $15,000 US dollars.

Last May, the Da Wang Jing villiage has been demolished, more than 2000 villagers' lives were changed just over night, all of them become millionaires, and most of them made investment, bought cars and houses. 

Now, if you go to the the Da Wang Jing village today, you only can see a park there and plain lands. This land has been sold with very high price, the government is planing to build the second CBD in Beijing, even more prosperous than Wangjing which is near the village.   

Ancius talks about two forms of calligraphy script, semi-cursive and cursive.