After more than 6,000 years of changes, the evolution process of Chinese characters is: Oracle Bone Inscriptions → inscriptions on bronze → seal script → official script → regular script → running script → cursive script.
Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the earliest and most complete ancient script discovered by China. It is considered as an early form of modern Chinese characters, and sometimes it is considered as one of the characters of Chinese characters, and it is also the oldest mature character in China. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is also called Wen Qi, tortoise shell or tortoise shell animal bone.
The bronze inscriptions on Yin and Zhou bronzes are also called Zhong Dingwen. Shang and Zhou Dynasties were the bronze age, with the tripod as the representative ritual vessel and the bell as the representative musical instrument. The application time of bronze inscriptions is about 1200 years, from the early Shang Dynasty to the Qin Dynasty's destruction of the Six Kingdoms. Compared with Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Oracle Bone Inscriptions has thin strokes, more straight strokes and more twists, which is different from Oracle Bone Inscriptions. His brush strokes are fat and thick, with many bends and lumps.
Dazhuan is a kind of writing in Zhou Xuanwang in the late Western Zhou Dynasty, also known as Wen Zhuan. Its physical characteristics are generally consistent with bronze inscriptions, and it has the characteristics of many strokes. 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. ? It 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.
Xiao Zhuan was a unified font issued in the Qin Dynasty when the policy of "homonym" was implemented, which was revised by Li Si and others after sorting out the characters. Because it is a unified font issued by the government, after finishing and simplifying, the variant characters are greatly reduced, and the font is rectangular, which lays the foundation for the "square characters" of Chinese characters. Xiao Zhuan's strokes are more symmetrical and neat, the lines are even in thickness, more rounded, more symbolic, and the picture meaning is greatly weakened. Because Xiao Zhuan is simplified on the basis of Da Zhuan, it is generally said that Xiao Zhuan is a simplification of Da Zhuan.
Lishu, also called Han Li, is a solemn font commonly used in Chinese characters. Its writing effect is slightly wide and flat, the horizontal painting is long and straight, and it is rectangular, paying attention to "silkworm head and goose tail" and "twists and turns". Lishu originated in the Qin Dynasty, formed by Cheng Miao, and reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Calligraphy is known as "Han Li Tang Kai". Official script is a common solemn font in Chinese characters, with a slightly flat writing effect, long horizontal drawing and short straight drawing, and pays attention to "silkworm head and goose tail" and "twists and turns" It originated in the Qin Dynasty and reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Calligraphy is known as "Han Li Tang Kai". It is also said that official script originated in the Warring States period.
Regular script, also known as authentic script and official script, came into being at the end of Han Dynasty, prevailed in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, matured in Tang Dynasty and is still in use today. The influence of the remaining seal script in official script was completely eliminated, and a perfect stroke system was formed. Regular script is characterized by square, horizontal and vertical, and clear strokes. Today, it has become a common font for Chinese characters. From the perspective of calligraphy art, Ou Yangxun, Yu Shinan, Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan in the Tang Dynasty were the main writers, and they formed different styles of regular script masters.
Running script is produced on the basis of regular script, which is a font between regular script and cursive script. "Line" means "line", so it is not as scribbled as cursive script, nor as straight as regular script. Whether it is cursive or cursive in essence. Those with more patterns than grass patterns are called "running patterns", and those with more grass patterns are called "running grass".
Cursive script: a style of Chinese characters characterized by simple structure and continuous strokes. Formed in the Han Dynasty, it evolved on the basis of official script for the convenience of writing. There are Cao Zhang, Cao Jin and Crazy Grass. Cursive writing is a convenient way to write. "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" says: "There are cursive scripts in Han Xing". The cursive script began in the early Han dynasty, and its characteristics are: keeping the outline of characters, damaging the official rules, rushing away and rushing away quickly. Because of the meaning of grass, it is called cursive script.