A Czech designer's passion for calligraphy

A piece of calligraphy script by Czech graphic designer Jana Janeckova. [Photo/China.org.cn]

According to Janeckova, as China is playing an increasingly important role in the international community in regard of its fast-growing economy, Europeans consider Chinese a valuable language.

Just consider the population of Beijing which is twice as many as that of Czech, people can understand how huge the market potential is, said the designer, who graduated in marketing and public relations with a master's degree from a Prague university.

Apart from economic relations, Janeckova believes the two countries also have something else in common. People of her generation in Czech, a country where the contact lens and lightning rods in Europe were invented, also wore red scarves, a popular communist youth league signal of the past, when they were young.

Although Janeckova hopes to establish economic ties between her company and the Chinese market, she adds that her purpose to learn Chinese and calligraphy is not only that of marketing.

Janeckova enjoys watching people exercising or writing calligraphy with water on the ground in the city's parks.

People may think they can be happy when they are flaunting their expensive cars, she concludes, however, that they are wrong. According to Janeckova, she'd rather pick up the tranquil lifestyle of practicing calligraphy on the ground as those people do in the parks because "that's the happiness which wealth cannot bring."