1, Oracle Bone Inscriptions: Oracle Bone Inscriptions mainly refers to Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins, which was written by the royal family on tortoise shells and animal bones in the late Shang Dynasty (14 ~1century). Documents based on tortoise shells and animal bones in Shang Dynasty and early Western Zhou Dynasty in China (about 16 BC-0/0 BC).
2. Bronze inscriptions: The application time of bronze inscriptions is about 1 200 years, from the early Shang Dynasty to the Qin Dynasty. According to Rong Geng's Jin Wen Bian, there are 3,722 inscriptions, of which 2,420 can be identified.
3. Dazhuan: Dazhuan began in the late Western Zhou Dynasty and traveled in Qin during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The fonts are similar to those of Qin Zhuan, but the configurations of glyphs overlap. Representing the present Shi Guwen, it was named after a book written by Tai Shihuan of Zhou Xuanwang. On the basis of the original text, he transformed it and got his name because it was engraved on the stone drum. It is the earliest stone carving text that has been circulated so far, and it is the ancestor of stone carving.
4. Xiao Zhuan: Xiao Zhuan is also called "Qin Zhuan". During the Qin Dynasty, Li Si was ordered to unify the characters, which was called Xiao Zhuan. It was in the Qin dynasty. The shape is long, even and neat, and it evolved from Da Zhuan.
5. Official script: Official script is basically evolved from seal script, mainly changing the round strokes of seal script into square folds, which makes writing faster, and it is difficult to draw round strokes when writing with pigments on wooden slips. Lishu prevailed in Han Dynasty and became the main style of calligraphy. As a start-up Qin Li, seal script has many meanings, and it has been continuously developed and processed.
6. Regular script: Regular script, also known as official script, or real script, began in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
7. Cursive script: Cursive script was formed in the Han Dynasty and evolved on the basis of official script for simple writing.
8. Running script: Running script was produced in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. It is a font between regular script and cursive script, which can be said to be cursive script or cursive script.
Font definition:
Glyph: The appearance of a single character.
Font: that is, the character type (such as writing style), or font, is a collection of glyphs with the same appearance style (style) and the same typesetting size (word width, word height and line spacing). Note: as far as "style" (style category) is concerned, it is a type; Figuratively speaking, it is a set.
Typeface: refers to the collection of various fonts, especially the collection of fonts with the same appearance style but different typesetting sizes.
There is no universal translation of words and fonts in different Chinese regions. The national standard of Chinese mainland (GB/T16964.1-1997, the official translation of international standards) translates words into "font names" and fonts into "fonts". Professionals in Taiwan Province Province also translated typeface into "fonts". Typeface can generally be translated as "font" and font can be translated as "font".
Seal script, official script, strict style, regular script, cursive script, song style, imitation song style, bold type, etc. It is a collection of many fonts of a similar style (also called "calligraphy style"), not a font. The regular script written by two calligraphers can be called two fonts; There are fonts such as Zhong Yi Songti and Xin Xiaoming on the computer.