Chinese Calligraphy: The King Teng's Pavillion, Part 1

One way to learn Chinese calligraphy is to pattern after a calligraphy copybook that could be the original works of calligraphy greats in the years of yore but preserved for posterity through generations, or of calligraphy masters of today but following the same established script style, with the proviso that one already knows the stroke sequence of Chinese characters and has the basic mastery of the constituent brush strokes. This is also a great way to practice Chinese calligraphy during the breaks from calligraphy classes (image taken from here).

And this is what I did in the last few days, and the copybook that I have chosen is one published in China (2007) and procured through my friend, Viky, on his last trip back to China. It is an ancient metrical composition written in the Tang Dynasty by the poet, Wang Bo, that describes the breathless views from the King Teng's Pavillion, their personifications and by extension, a retrospection of the poet's own predicament of untapped talents. Because of its length, I am doing it in several instalments.