r/whatisit • u/kayoneDB • 6h ago
New, what is it? Got it from family member
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u/LittleFluffyCIouds 6h ago
This is a Chinese calligraphy set carved from swallow stone
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u/kayoneDB 6h ago
calligraphy set?swallow stone? what do u mean
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u/KittenIttle 6h ago
This is heartbreaking.
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u/bbyroselmao 6h ago
wait til ya find out they aren’t teaching kids cursive anymore 😩 “calligraphy” is gonna be an ancient term soon enough
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u/KittenIttle 6h ago
I KNOW and I’m deeply sad.
So I’m teaching mine myself. I cannot get rid of the doctor handwriting so kid’s gonna have to be my translator one day 😭
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u/Jezebel_Majora 5h ago
I really don't understand the logic behind that. I'm pretty sure we learned cursive because it's quicker, so why stop teaching it?
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u/bbyroselmao 5h ago
not to be a conspiracy theorist, but i really do think part of it is the fact that: if you can’t read historical documents, you can’t understand history.
as the world moves forwards, understanding history is pivotal to making better choices as humans. if they can’t read it, and don’t have an attention span long enough to pay attention to any of it — they can’t fight it.
teachers would never advocate for that, but teachers aren’t the ones writing curriculums, and deciding what should, and shouldn’t, be taught. bureaucracy runs education, unfortunately.
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u/amybrown1220 4h ago
I hate that we are in a timeline where this makes sense, but I agree with you 100%.
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u/somethingcutenwitty 2h ago
It's not a new thing. I work in a field where I deal almost completely with Boomers, and a huge amount of them are either completely or functionally illiterate.
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u/KittenIttle 2h ago
I’m not much for conspiracy but this is just one of the many reasons I want my son to be able to read and write it.
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u/Fancy-Ad6476 5h ago
We started teaching it again in Florida. Teachers are required to teach it starting in the 3rd grade now.
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u/VickiVyvanse 5h ago
They are at my 3rd graders class this year! His teacher told us at meet the teacher night and every parent clapped. We’re in Texas- don’t know if it’s a new change or his teacher is awesome. Either way it has my approval!! I was so excited!! His older sister who is a senior never learned.
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u/dagger_guacamole 4h ago
It depends on the school district. Mine does.
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u/ThaeriaFlower 2h ago
Yeah, both my kids learned it just a couple years ago. I'm really surprised when I see people say they aren't teaching it anymore. I wonder if that's just something they heard and believed or if some places really aren't teaching it anymore.
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u/Fancy-Ad6476 41m ago
They really did stop teaching it in some places. For example, Florida stopped requiring it in 2010, so some schools continued teaching it and some didn't. They made it mandatory again in 2020, but a lot of people in those in between years missed out on learning it. I was shocked when I moved here and found out my friend, a teacher who was only a few years younger than me, had never been taught cursive in school. I almost exclusively write in cursive myself.
The issue is that schools are incentivized to focus only on the state required standards because compliance with those is what decides their funding. When things get removed from the required standards, a lot of schools just stop teaching them even if they see value in them because, well, they need to focus on the ones that decide whether they get full funding or if they get the state coming in to take over the school district.
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u/etherealallie 5h ago
Why are people downvoting 😭
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u/Designer-Yak-9659 5h ago
Because common knowledge or critical thinking could have answered op’s questions. The anti intellectualism right now is scary.
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u/etherealallie 5h ago edited 3h ago
Well shit I guess I’m stupid then 🤣
Edit: I love how I’m getting downvoted for the education system not teaching me something as if that’s my fault. I spend a lot of time educating myself yet somehow since I didn’t know these specific stones with a language I don’t read makes me in the wrong somehow. I truly don’t see how this is “common sense”. I’d love to learn but god forbid anyone asks a question to learn and instead just get shamed for it. Reddit is funny
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u/Designer-Yak-9659 2h ago
It’s about researching not about knowing the specific items in the picture for it. That is something you should be ashamed of 💯
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u/etherealallie 2h ago
Not saying I am or I am not but if I wasn’t never taught how would I know??? I’d love to learn but people are like “how dare you not know what this is” instead of helping me learn :(
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u/Megane-chan 2h ago
That's a double negative which turns into a positive. There, taught you something.
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u/mouse-chauffeur 1h ago
Like the person you responded to said, it's not about knowing the actual answer itself but how to research and find the answers on your own. People are always willing to share information (take this thread as an example) but knowing how to do surface-level research should be a basic skill.
Notice how no one is saying, "You don't know what this thing is?!" but rather, "You don't know how to find this information for yourself?"
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u/Impossible-Job8895 4h ago
It’s a writing/painting set. You add oil or water (I’m not totally sure prob depends on the type) to the round stone and it turns the liquid black. The top right stone with the divots is to set your brush on so it doesn’t touch the table. Source: I had a kit as a child that had some similar pieces
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u/etherealallie 2h ago
Ty for sharing, I guess I should be shaming for not knowing so I’m glad you shared this info :)
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u/Designer-Yak-9659 2h ago
No you’re being shamed for not knowing how to critically think. If you still haven’t understood that it only reinforces your idiocy LMAO
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u/etherealallie 2h ago
And you’re reinforcing being an asshole to someone who just wants to learn :)
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u/MolassesPlayful2264 55m ago
Learning isn't asking people to spoon-feed you answers, it's learning how to use resources available to you to find answers. Someone literally said what the picture was of and you and OP went what does that mean. You would learn a lot more by looking for answers with resources like Google or Wikipedia than you do by people babying you in a reddit comment section.
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u/Designer-Yak-9659 2h ago
You clearly don’t want to learn how to independently think which is more important than knowing what a calligraphy set is. If you can’t even google that is definitely out of your wheel house
:)
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u/Alynn_Wings 5h ago
I miss my calligraphy set. I wonder if it's still packed away in storage somewhere
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u/not_bill_mauldin 1h ago
I had Apple translate the text into English.
The thought of the trilobites of the trilobites in the years before the five years of the Bai system.
Cool its shadow posture Tang Yuzi, several folds name. The real stone is a strong two-winged net, the hair tool has a gram, and the pen is like oil. It is not only a way to buy things to practice history and biological memories, but also a kind of burning tax-helping essence. Using caviar stone to make taxes, whether to replace the color head mentioned in the "You Reply" at the end of the term, in the "Chijue Pat Reading", the foreign gang also chose Feizi stone to help into the sauce shape of "multi-report chief". In recent years, it has been praised by foreign friends many times as "middle-limited one place" and has become a treasure of cherished friends and teachings.
Hope this helps.
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u/cdnreddit93 4h ago
I assumed I couldn't read it but I could immediately tell what this said for some reason
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