Examples are as follows:
1. Cheng Miao created official script (Qin Dynasty).
Legend has it that the official script was created by a man named Cheng Miao in the Qin Dynasty. Cheng Miao first worked as a minor official in a county, responsible for copying relevant documents. Later, because he committed a crime, he was imprisoned in a prison in Yunyang County (today's northwest of Chunhua County, Shaanxi Province) by Qin Shihuang.
In prison, with nothing to do all day, he remembered that when he was copying documents, the Qin Dynasty's small seal script was more complicated and difficult to write, so he came up with the idea of ??changing the writing method of small seal script. .
He thought about it for several years in prison. After he was released from prison, he collected and studied for a few more years. A full ten years later, Cheng Miao simplified and evolved the seal script on the basis of the seal script, and compared the original seal script with the original seal script. The round strokes are transformed into square folds. In terms of the structure of the characters, the original pictographic structure like painting is changed into the form of strokes. In this way, Chinese characters are easier to write than before.
After Cheng Miao succeeded in his research, he wrote a memorial of 3,000 official script characters that he had successfully collected and researched over 10 years, and sent it to Qin Shihuang. After reading it, Qin Shihuang admired Cheng Miao very much and appointed him. He is the censor. At that time, there were many official documents to be submitted to the emperor, and it was difficult to write in seal script, so more and more people used official script.
Because this font is often used by low-status officials and is easy to write, it is called official script.
2. The plaque inscribed by Xiao He deep in thought (Western Han Dynasty).
Xiao He, the minister of the Western Han Dynasty, assisted Liu Bang in establishing the Han Dynasty. Because of his great achievements, Liu Bang named him the Minister of Zan, and later promoted him to the position of prime minister. Xiao He's calligraphy was very good, and he was especially good at writing on plaques with a bald pen. Once, someone asked Xiao He to inscribe a name for a newly built palace. Xiao He thought hard for three months before he started writing.
On the day of writing, some people heard that Xiao He thought about it for three months before writing it, and they all came from far away to see it. I saw that Xiao He was like leading troops to fight. The movements of his wrists seemed to be commanding thousands of troops. The words he wrote were like the civil servants and generals he led. Every word was so powerful. Everyone present was impressed by his wonderful gestures. Deeply impressed.