In fact, when people write, each stroke will change in various forms, and the stroke forms of various books are different, which makes the stippling forms more diverse. Here, let's take regular script characters as an example and quote one or two strokes to illustrate their style. For example, there are more than 20 kinds of stippling in regular script and more than 0 kinds of tick 10. We only show some of them in the picture on the right.
In a small square space, when strokes are combined into characters, it is inevitable to use different strokes and various connection arrangements in order to make the glyphs easy to identify and beautiful. Therefore, the strokes and parts of each character are all combined up and down, left and right, on and off, crossed, interspersed, overlapped, piled up and wrapped together to distinguish them from other characters.
Western pinyin characters are completely different from Chinese characters in style and combination. They have twenty or thirty letters, more than the basic strokes of Chinese characters, but their line styles are only straight lines, arcs and dots. In particular, the way pinyin combines letters is this: no matter how many letters are used, a word is arranged from left to right. It is difficult to create neat, uneven and dense forms and customs like Chinese characters by using various combinations and construction methods of strokes.
Generally, there are only two or three kinds of characters in the world, regular characters and cursive script, which are much less than about ten kinds of characters commonly used in China's calligraphy. I only introduce five kinds of calligraphy in China's calligraphy. The first three are used in daily life now, and the last two are ancient. Now they are only used in calligraphy art and are no longer used in daily life.
Regular script, which has been popular for 1000 years, is the basic character of Chinese characters composed of strokes in various combinations. This font is also the main type of Chinese characters used in modern printing and computer keyboards. Its main features are: standardized strokes, strict statutes and slow writing speed. Its image is the easiest to identify, and it is often used in formal occasions in calligraphy art, such as shop signs, architectural plaques, Spring Festival couplets, tombstones, monuments, books, newspapers and official documents.
Running script Today's running script is written quickly from regular script, which is between regular script and cursive script. Its statutes are looser than regular script, with more stripes and Lian Bi between stippling, and more oblique font changes. It is concise, fluent, light and easy to read, and is often used in letters and daily life.
Cursive script is the fastest among all kinds of fonts, and its shape is farther away from the basic character regular script than running script. In cursive script, the font shape is either distorted or the strokes are staggered, and some strokes and parts are even simplified. Therefore, cursive script is difficult to write and recognize.
The oldest seal script. It is no longer used in daily life, just like the pages of Qian Shoutie's official script. The ancient seal script is Oracle Bone Inscriptions carved on tortoise shell, ox bone and deer bone, bronze inscriptions cast on bronzes, and later seal script. It has the least strokes, no dots, hooks and folds. Lines emphasize the consistency of thickness. The strokes should be even and symmetrical. In the eyes of modern people, seal script is the most difficult to identify, but it has its own artistic charm and mystery. Modern people can see the naive artistic mind of our earliest ancestors from the fonts commonly used in printing and computers, and we cannot but admire our ancient culture.
Basic characters of the second generation official script after seal script. Mainly used in Han dynasty. The lines with uniform thickness in seal script have been changed into uneven ones, and the pictographs and signifiers in seal script have been greatly reduced or disappeared, and their stroke forms are not as many as those in regular script. Official script has another feature: the font is flat, which is different from the other four fonts, and most of them are tall and long. Li's calligraphy also has an antique flavor, but it is easy to identify.
Today, the main Chinese characters used in print and computers are Song Style, Imitation Song Style, Regular Script and Bold Style. Song style is a common printing style after the invention of movable type printing in Song Dynasty. It is based on the fonts of calligraphers Ou Yangxun and Ouyang Tong in the Tang Dynasty. After a little improvement in the Ming Dynasty (mainly changing the stroke thickness to horizontal and vertical thickness), it became the main printing form of16th century, and it is still called Song Style. Imitation of Song Dynasty means imitating the shape of Song Dynasty, but all of them use fine strokes. Regular script is a kind of printing closest to handwriting. In recent years, in addition to the original regular script, other regular script characters have been used in printing and computers. Among them, there is a "calligraphy-style character" based on the characters of the famous contemporary calligrapher Shu Tong (1906- 1998).