Cursive script can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense.
Broadly speaking, regardless of the times, all scribbled words can be regarded as cursive.
In a narrow sense, that is, as a specific font.
? Formed in the Han Dynasty, it evolved on the basis of official script for the convenience of writing.
It is characterized by simple structure and continuous strokes.
At the end of the Han Dynasty, Cao Zhang was further "grassed" and the strokes of Lishu were removed. The upper and lower characters and strokes are connected, and the radicals are simplified and borrowed, which is called "modern grass".
In the Tang Dynasty, this kind of grass was described as "wild grass", also known as "big grass", with continuous strokes and changeable glyphs.
Today, the aesthetic value of cursive script far exceeds its practical value.
Cursive script is to connect words with dots according to certain rules. It has a simple structure and is used while borrowing, not scribbling at will.
Cao Zhang's brushwork is "I", while modern Cao Cao's brushwork is "S".
This is the fundamental difference between the two.
Indulge with a pen, draw messy, also called big grass or crazy grass.
The established grass method is both normative and flexible.
Extended data:
The script of longevity is written as follows:
Running script is a kind of calligraphy between regular script and cursive script, which appeared in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
The name of running script first appeared in Wei Heng's Four-body Calligraphy in the Western Jin Dynasty.
Because of its unique artistic expression and wide practicability, running script has been favored and widely circulated since its birth.
Great calligraphers of past dynasties wrote a glorious history of running script development.
In the vast treasure house of calligraphy art, running script is undoubtedly the richest and heaviest treasure.
Among them, Wang Xizhi created Preface to Lanting, which is regarded as the best running script in the world. Wang Xun created Yuan Botie; Wang Xianzhi created the duck head pill tie and so on.
Running script writing should be easy, lively and fast, and master the combination of illness and stagnation, movement and static.
The ink color arrangement should be strong at the beginning and dry at the end.
The lines are long and thin, short and thick, moderate in thickness and alternating in depth.
It's similar to cursive, but it's not so grassy.
With the vigorous development of contemporary calligraphy art, the exploration and innovation of running script creation has set off wave after wave of upsurge, showing a diversified and prosperous scene.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-cursive script