First of all, briefly introduce the strokes.
Stroke usually refers to the uninterrupted points and lines that make up various shapes of Chinese characters, such as horizontal, vertical, left and right. It is the smallest Lian Bi unit of Chinese characters. Stroke sometimes refers to the number of strokes, such as the Chinese character stroke index in front of a word book. When expressing these two meanings, "strokes" can also be used as "strokes", but now it is standardized as "strokes". In addition, strokes also refer to pictures with pen-and-ink strokes. This meaning is generally used in ancient books, but it is not commonly used or used by people nowadays.
Second, the classification of strokes
(1) Handwriting: refers to the handwritten form of a character, which is flexible and easy to express personal style. There are three main types of calligraphy in modern China: regular script, cursive script and running script. The strokes of handwritten Chinese characters are different due to the use of hard pen and soft pen, such as hard pen vertical strokes, and soft pen (such as writing brush) vertical strokes include short vertical strokes, long vertical strokes, hanging needle strokes and vertical strokes.
(2) Printing: refers to the printing form of characters. There are four types of modern Chinese character prints: Song Style, Imitation Song Style, Regular Style and Bold Style, among which Song Style and Regular Style are the most commonly used. Before the arrangement of Chinese characters, there was a great difference between the strokes and gestures of printed Songti and printed regular script. In order to make the fonts of the printed Song Dynasty and the printed regular script as consistent as possible, and make the fonts of the printed Song Dynasty approach the printed regular script in principle, China issued the List of Printed General Chinese Characters on June 30th, 1965, which standardized the fonts of printed general Chinese characters.