2022 National High School Calligraphy Championship
National Highest Award

Traditional Japanese calligraphy on paper, with black ink brush strokes in vertical lines.

大堤曲

汪中

東風吹江水

花開照顔色

相思人未歸

日暮隄上立

Song of the Great Embankment

Written by Wang Zhong

The spring breeze ripples across the river’s surface.

Flowers bloom in vivid brilliance.

Yet the one I long for has not returned. Alone.

I stand in sorrow upon the embankment.