There are five major fonts for calligraphy: regular script, seal script, running script, cursive script, and official script. Brush calligraphy refers to calligraphy written according to traditional methods, rather than words written randomly with a calligraphy pen.
1. Regular script, also called regular script. It is a calligraphy style that has been developed for the longest time in our country. Regular script has a square shape and straight strokes. There are four famous calligraphers in regular script: Ouyang Xun of the Tang Dynasty, Yan Zhenqing of the Tang Dynasty, Liu Gongquan of the Tang Dynasty, and Zhao Meng of the Yuan Dynasty. Regular script is generally used as an introductory script. The upper part can be traced back to seal script and the lower part can be cursive, which serves as a link between the previous and the following.
2. Seal script is the collective name for large seal script and small seal script. The brushwork is thin, strong and straight, with many straight lines. There are square pens, round pens, and pointed pens, and there are many "hanging needles" in the handwriting. Seal script is the earliest calligraphy style, and its writing style is relatively simpler than other calligraphy styles. The knotted characters in seal script are rich in decoration. . The style of seal script is serious and the layout is rigorous. Learning seal script can avoid the problems of being weak, vulgar, wild and oblique. ”
3. Running script is a font between regular script and cursive script. Running script is the most famous in the Song Dynasty, including Mi Fu, Su Shi, Cai Xiang, Huang Tingjian, etc. Among the representative works of running script, "Lanting Preface" The most famous one is "Lanting Preface" written by Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. His predecessors described his calligraphy as "a dragon leaping over the Tianmen, a tiger crouching in the Phoenix Pavilion", and was praised as "the best running script in the world".
4. Cursive script can be divided into zhangcao, jincao and kuangcao. The strokes in zhangcao have rules and regulations to follow. The representative works are the Songjiang version of Wu Huangxiang of the Three Kingdoms. Su is the representative, with wild and uninhibited strokes, becoming an artistic creation completely divorced from practicality. From then on, cursive script was just a calligraphy work that calligraphers copied from Zhangcao, Jincao and Kuangcao.
5. After seal script, official script is a very special kind of calligraphy. The beautiful calligraphy style has the beauty of waves and zhe (zhe). The so-called "wave" means that the left strokes are like curved waves, which become abbreviated in regular script; " is a pen stroke. When writing long horizontal strokes, the strokes should start against the front and cut in like a "silkworm's head". The strokes in the middle will have a wave and pitch, and the ending will have a tail.