The Jiucheng Palace Nationwide Calligraphy Contest 2010 is now open.

All Chinese calligraphers, amateur or professional, are welcome to submit their entries by July 10 online at www.chinanap.net.

An exhibition featuring 100 calligraphic works by veteran artists and 136 of the contest's winning works is scheduled to run from Aug 28-31 at the Shaanxi Museum of Art.

The Jiucheng Palace in Linyou county, Shaanxi province, once a Tang imperial resort, is well known for a stone tablet carved with a calligraphic work by Tang official-scholar Ouyang Xun.