This literally translates as: Troops/soldiers/warriors have no fixed [battlefield] strategy [just as] water has no constant shape [but adapts itself to whatever container it is in].
Figuratively, this means: One should seek to find whatever strategy or method is best suited to resolving each individual problem.
This proverb is about as close as you can get to the military idea of “adapt improvise overcome.” 兵無常勢水無常形 is the best way to express that idea in both an ancient way, and a very natural way in Chinese.
This in-stock artwork might be what you are looking for, and ships right away...
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese.
When the calligrapher finishes creating your artwork, it is taken to my art mounting workshop in Beijing where a wall scroll is made by hand from a combination of silk, rice paper, and wood.
After we create your wall scroll, it takes at least two weeks for air mail delivery from Beijing to you.
Allow a few weeks for delivery. Rush service speeds it up by a week or two for $10!
When you select your calligraphy, you'll be taken to another page where you can choose various custom options.
The wall scroll that Sandy is holding in this picture is a "large size" single-character wall scroll. We also offer custom wall scrolls in small, medium, and an even-larger jumbo size.
Professional calligraphers are getting to be hard to find these days. Instead of drawing characters by hand, the new generation in China merely type roman letters into their computer keyboards and pick the character that they want from a list that pops up.
There is some fear that true Chinese calligraphy may become a lost art in the coming years. Many art institutes in China are now promoting calligraphy programs in hopes of keeping this unique form
of art alive.
Even with the teachings of a top-ranked calligrapher in China, my calligraphy will never be good enough to sell. I will leave that to the experts.
The same calligrapher who gave me those lessons also
attracted a crowd of thousands and a TV crew as he created characters over
6-feet high. He happens to be ranked as one of the top 100 calligraphers
in all of China. He is also one of very few that would actually attempt
such a feat.
Some people may refer to this entry as Warriors Adapt and Overcome Kanji, Warriors Adapt and Overcome Characters, Warriors Adapt and Overcome in Mandarin Chinese, Warriors Adapt and Overcome Characters, Warriors Adapt and Overcome in Chinese Writing, Warriors Adapt and Overcome in Japanese Writing, Warriors Adapt and Overcome in Asian Writing, Warriors Adapt and Overcome Ideograms, Chinese Warriors Adapt and Overcome symbols, Warriors Adapt and Overcome Hieroglyphics, Warriors Adapt and Overcome Glyphs, Warriors Adapt and Overcome in Chinese Letters, Warriors Adapt and Overcome Hanzi, Warriors Adapt and Overcome in Japanese Kanji, Warriors Adapt and Overcome Pictograms, Warriors Adapt and Overcome in the Chinese Written-Language, or Warriors Adapt and Overcome in the Japanese Written-Language.
