Guan cursive script

The cursive script is as follows:

1. The horizontal line at the top of "Pipe" begins to write, inclining slightly upward from left to right, and slightly crossing the vertical line at the back.

2. Draw a vertical line downward from the right side of the horizontal line, the line falls vertically and bends slightly to the left.

3. After writing the vertical line, draw a small horizontal line from the lower right corner to the upper right corner of the vertical line as the lower horizontal line of the ending word.

4. After completing the lower cross, connect a small curved vertical hook from the right side of the lower cross and extend slightly downward.

5. Connect a small curved diagonal line from the upper right to the lower right of the lower hook to form the lower right curve of Guanzi, and finally bend slightly to the right.

Cursive script has broad and narrow meanings. In a broad sense, regardless of the age, all scribbled words are regarded as cursive. Narrow sense, that is, as a specific font, was formed in the Han Dynasty and evolved on the basis of official script in order to write simply. Because cursive script is too simple and easy to be confused with each other, it can't replace official script, and it becomes the main font just like official script replaces seal script.

Classification of cursive script

1, Cao Zhang's strokes are simple, connected by winding ribbons, similar to today's grass. However, its structure is straight, its brushwork is blunt, and there are waves in the strokes, especially at the beginning and end of the painting, which obviously retains the brushwork of the official script, and its words are independent, intermittent and orderly, which is obviously different from grass and weeds.

2. This kind of grass, commonly called cursive script, is based on Cao Zhang and regular script, which removes the traces of official script left by Cao Zhang, speeds up writing, and adds a hook. Zhang Huaiguan's "Broken Book" said: "The book of Cao Zhang has different characters, and Zhang Zhi has turned it into a modern grass, increasing its flow rate, plucking its hair, linking it up and down, or borrowing the suffix as the next prefix, which is odd-shaped, and has both numbers and meanings."

3. Weeds was founded in the Tang Dynasty, and Zhang Xu, a native of the Tang Dynasty, was the founder of Weeds, so he was called "the sage of grass". Huai Su, a later monk, was also a master of weeds. Weeds are simpler and faster than today's grass, and their brushwork is more continuous and tortuous, lively and flying, and they are unrestrained and have the potential to gallop thousands of miles.