Eight Chinese characters the actress wrote with brush and ink at a theme park in the eastern city of Ningbo were sold earlier this month, the Liberation Daily newspaper said Wednesday, without identifying the auction house or buyer. [break]
"The style of calligraphy is childish, unskilled," said the newspaper, which is backed by Shanghai´s Communist Party branch.
Sola Aoi, 29, is best known for her work in adult movies, with some of her less risque titles including Virgin Sky and Cosmic Girl. Despite China´s official censorship of films, pornography is widely available on pirate DVDs.
She has recently moved into mainstream films, appearing in one 2010 movie as a zombie-killing stripper, and her Chinese blog has nearly 14 million followers.
Her fans have jumped to defend her honour.
"´Teacher Aoi´ excels in both performing skills and moral integrity, this price is certainly worth it," Duoyan Sanwei said in a microblog posting.
But many dismissed the auction as a marketing ploy by the theme park that sponsored her trip in April. A spokeswoman for the park declined to comment.
Dressed demurely in a pink and white dress, the 1m 55cm (five-foot, two-inch) tall actress was surrounded by mainly male fans on her visit, when she wrote: "Fun Phoenix Mountain Theme Park".
"This matter is a commercial activity," said the deputy head of the Shanghai Youth Calligraphers Association, Tang Jihui.
"Her calligraphy has nothing to do with art and the people buying and selling it don´t care about whether or not what she writes is art," he was quoted by the Liberation Daily as saying.
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