If you need a strange homage to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, this might be it.
不要恐慌 says “Don't Panic” in Chinese. A Chinese person who is not familiar with this masterpiece of a book, will not see the humor but that will be your chance to suggest reading some Douglas Adams (which has been translated into Chinese).
Note: Because this title is entirely Japanese Katakana, it should be written by a Japanese calligrapher.
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title
Characters
Romaji (Romanized Japanese)
Various forms of Romanized Chinese
Don’t Panic
不要恐慌
bú yào kǒng huāngbu2 yao4 kong3 huang1bu yao kong huangbuyaokonghuang
pu yao k`ung huangpuyaokunghuangpu yao kung huang
Douglas
道格拉斯
dào gé lā sīdao4 ge2 la1 si1dao ge la sidaogelasi
tao ko la ssutaokolassu
Douglas
ダグラス
dagurasu
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese.
All of our calligraphy wall scrolls are handmade.
When the calligrapher finishes creating your artwork, it is taken to my art mounting workshop in Beijing where a wall scroll is made by hand from a combination of silk, rice paper, and wood.
After we create your wall scroll, it takes at least two weeks for air mail delivery from Beijing to you.
Allow a few weeks for delivery. Rush service speeds it up by a week or two for $10!
When you select your calligraphy, you'll be taken to another page where you can choose various custom options.
The wall scroll that Sandy is holding in this picture is a "large size" single-character wall scroll. We also offer custom wall scrolls in small, medium, and an even-larger jumbo size.
Professional calligraphers are getting to be hard to find these days. Instead of drawing characters by hand, the new generation in China merely type roman letters into their computer keyboards and pick the character that they want from a list that pops up.
There is some fear that true Chinese calligraphy may become a lost art in the coming years. Many art institutes in China are now promoting calligraphy programs in hopes of keeping this unique form
of art alive.
Even with the teachings of a top-ranked calligrapher in China, my calligraphy will never be good enough to sell. I will leave that to the experts.
The same calligrapher who gave me those lessons also
attracted a crowd of thousands and a TV crew as he created characters over
6-feet high. He happens to be ranked as one of the top 100 calligraphers
in all of China. He is also one of very few that would actually attempt
such a feat.
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