Official script is the pinnacle of Han art, with rich and colorful styles, which is the progress in the history of calligraphy. The characteristic of official script calligraphy is that stippling inherits the curve beauty of seal script, which is a font developed on the basis of seal script and forms a profound artistic style of Chinese culture. Compared with seal script and regular script, official script has its own characteristics in stippling, structure and composition.
Regular script and official script were both regular scripts at that time. Now, regular script is actually a simplified variant of official script. Therefore, regular script also has a name, called golden calendar. Compared with today's official script, there are also ancient official scripts, that is, official scripts with unchanged strokes at the end of Qin Dynasty and the beginning of Han Dynasty.
The characteristics of official script:
"Official script" includes Qin Li and Han Li. Generally speaking, it is developed from seal script, with wide and flat font, long horizontal painting and short vertical painting, and pays attention to "swallow tail of silkworm head" and "twists and turns" According to the unearthed bamboo slips, Lishu was established in the Qin Dynasty.
Legend has it that Cheng Miao was a servant, and Han Li reached the peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty, inheriting the tradition of seal script and opening the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, which had a great influence on later calligraphy. The calligraphy circle was known as "Tang Kai of Han Li".
Official script is relative to seal script, and its name originated from the Eastern Han Dynasty. The appearance of official script is another great change of China characters, which brings China's calligraphy art into a new realm, is a turning point in the development history of Chinese characters, and lays the foundation for regular script.