This is a good model for learning how to write Chinese characters beautifully. Both English and Chinese prefaces are used. So that both Chinese and Western people can understand the description. There are 76 pages of written model facsimiled from real hand writings in this book. The cover used Johnson K. Gao's color painting with two persons on the beach to pick up shells. That is a metaphor to readers that authors wanted to presant the beautiful shells they picked up from the "sea of calligraphy".