Explanation: hieroglyphics, hieroglyphics: from 6000 years ago to the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, they were similar to pictures and were very easy to identify.
Oracle Bone Inscriptions: More than 3,000 years ago, it is the earliest recognizable writing, carved on tortoise shells and animal bones in Shang Dynasty. At that time, Oracle Bone Inscriptions recorded the good and bad fortune of divination. The font style is simple, free and random.
Zhong Dingwen: The inscription of Zhou Qin on the Decamerous Stone Drum was discovered in the Tang Dynasty. In ancient times, copper was called gold and bronze inscription, with the tripod of ritual vessels and the clock of musical instruments as the most important. Words produced by image symbols.
Shi Guwen: The inscription of Zhou Qin on the Decamerous Stone Drum was discovered in the Tang Dynasty and is now in the Forbidden City. It is the earliest stone inscription in the history of China. Shi Guwen is no longer like Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jin Wen, and the average size of his handwriting has the bearing of Magnolia officinalis.
Ancient prose: The characters found on the wall of Confucius House in Han Dynasty, Zuo Zhuan in Spring and Autumn Period, are called ancient prose.
Qin Zhuan: "Dazhuan" is a kind of writing that Zhou Xuanwang sorted out ancient Chinese characters, because it was recorded in history books. So it is also called "Moon Hee", which was used by Qin Shihuang to annex six countries and unify the world.
Dazhuan: It is the general name of Zhong Dingwen, Shigu, ancient prose and Qin Zhuan. The font is rough and powerful, thick and simple, and the line style has tended to be linear and standardized.
Biography: In 22 1 BC, Qin unified China and ordered Li Si and others to write with the same characters, resulting in simplified characters based on it. The font is round and neat, tight on the top and loose on the bottom, the cloth is well-proportioned and decorated with patterns.
Lishu: According to legend, during the reign of Qin Shihuang, there was a small official named Cheng Miao who was imprisoned for committing a crime. Official script is simplified from seal script. In order to simplify and sketch, the strokes of seal script were changed to ten thousand fold strokes. Sheng Xing in the Han Dynasty, later generations took the official script as a model, which was round, dignified and elegant, stretching left and right, balanced and beautiful.
Weibei: refers to the stone carvings in the Northern Wei Dynasty, which belong to regular script. In the process of changing Chinese characters from official script to regular script, Wei Bei showed bold innovative spirit and outstanding creative ability. Features: there are many kinds and styles, and I am unprepared.
Regular script: also known as official script and real script. Because it is a model of font, it is called regular script, standard and formal, also called regular script. The Western Han Dynasty began to sprout, and after the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty flourished. Tang Kai has been used as the standard font of Chinese characters for more than 1000 years. Features: square shape, straight strokes, rigorous composition, plump and beautiful.
Cursive script: Cursive scripts include Da Zhuan, Xiao Zhuan, Gu Li and Li Jing. The development of cursive script into a distinctive font began in the Han Dynasty. From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, it was a very prosperous period, with the formation of Cao Zhang, Cao Jin, Wild Grass and Hangcao. It not only has its own rules, but also expresses its feelings. This grass is the main body of cursive script. Their brush strokes are continuous and tortuous, based on the painting, and the situation is connected in one go. Features: strong sense of rhythm, smooth and comfortable.
Running script: a font produced in the late Han Dynasty, which is between the original and cursive script. It has the readability of regular script and the quickness of cursive writing, so it has become a common font like regular script so far. According to legend, it was created by Liu Fasheng, and Wang Xizhi was honored as a "book saint". Its characteristics are: fast strokes, brisk rhythm, smooth stippling and lively pen use.
Song Dynasty: In the Northern Song Dynasty, Bi Sheng invented movable type printing, and lettering produced a printing style that was horizontal and vertical and eye-catching, which was later called Song Style. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, it evolved into Amin style, with clear strokes and square fonts. At that time, a kind of Hongwu style with thin horizontal strokes and particularly thick and flat fonts was popular among the people, such as inscriptions on official posts, lanterns and notices. Features: thin and thick, "left as a knife, sharp as a melon seed, brush as a sweep" with decorative dotted lines, the font is square and elegant, serious and generous, which is the first of fine arts fonts.
Imitation of Song Dynasty: Imitation of Song Dynasty with uniform strokes, exquisite brushwork, tall and straight appearance and suitable for writing, which was called New Song at that time, and Song was also called Old Song. This is a modern song style. Features: graceful word length, combination of Song and Kai, horizontal and vertical, uniform thickness, even interval, pen-on-pen.
Bold: The font has been germinated in the late Qing Dynasty for 57 years and simplified. The strokes are horizontal and vertical, the thickness is consistent, the strokes are thick, and the square head and tail form a square black body, hence the name square body. Features: Song structure, simple strokes, mutual generosity, striking and powerful.
Round black body: evolved from black body, the square angle becomes round, the square head becomes round, and the points, strokes, picks and hooks are slightly bent and slightly lengthened. Although the strokes of a square and a circle are the same, they have different effects. Thick square is the feeling of thick flat plate; Thick circles have a heavy and flexible style. Therefore, the appearance of round black body in printing has a strong impact, giving people a rounded effect and a sense of the times.
The evolution of fonts shows this rule:
1, easy to write replaces the difficult process.
2. Simplify the process of replacing traditional products.
3. The process of new words replacing old words.
4. The process of expanding practical words.