Calligraphy is divided into several styles.

Generally speaking, calligraphy is divided into five styles: seal script, official script, regular script, running script and cursive script.

1, seal style

Seal script, one of the ancient Chinese characters, also known as seal script, is a general term for ancient Chinese characters. "Seal makers spread it, spread its physics, and apply it endlessly." The ancients thought that seal script was written by Cang Xie, but this is not credible.

2. Official script

Lishu is a Chinese font, including Qin Lishu and Han Li. It is generally believed that it is developed from seal script, with wide and flat font, long horizontal painting and short vertical painting, and pays attention to "swallow tail of silkworm head" and "twists and turns".

3. Regular script

Regular script, a font of Chinese characters, is also called regular script, regular script, original script and regular script. It gradually evolved from official script, becoming more simplified and more horizontal and vertical. The book Ci Hai is interpreted as "square in shape and straight in brushwork, which can be used as a model".

4. Running script

Running script is a kind of calligraphy, which is divided into running script and running script. It is developed and originated on the basis of regular script, and it is a font between regular script and cursive script, which is produced to make up for the slow writing speed of regular script and the illegibility of cursive script.

5, cursive script

Cursive script is a font of Chinese characters, which can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. In a broad sense, regardless of the age, all scribbled words are regarded as cursive. Narrow sense, that is, as a specific font, was formed in the Han Dynasty and evolved on the basis of official script in order to write simply.