New Tales of the World

The beauty of Chinese characters leaps from inscribed plaques, cliff carvings, official documents, letters, shop signs, wine banners, even prescriptions and contracts. Characters vary dramatically in complexity and structure, with compound characters built through radical stacking. Through deconstruction, borrowed forms, recombination, and varied writing styles, they merge traditional culture with aesthetic spirit.

Ancient China's Wei-Jin era bequeathed timeless cultural 'memes': Wang Ziyou visiting Dai Andao on a snow y night; Wang Xizhi lying bare-chested on the eastern bed; Cao Zhi composing a life-or-death poem within seven paces; Zhang Han yearning for perch and water-shield soup—all became legendary anecdotes echoing through history. Today, internet neologisms emerge: "crispy college students" (vulnerable youth), "straw-dummy teams" (improvised systems), "love disability" (emotional apathy). As the fourth stop of the Daily Writing Project, New Tales of the World employs modular character design to create a series of "new" tales for our era.