cursive script
Cursive script is a font of Chinese characters, which can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. 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.
About from the Eastern Jin Dynasty, in order to distinguish it from the new cursive script at that time. The cursive script of the Han Dynasty was called Cao Zhang. The new cursive script is relatively called today's grass, which is divided into big grass (also called crazy grass) and small grass. It feels beautiful in madness. As Li Zhimin said: "Close to the pool, consider the reason, get the heart from things, realize the image, and then enter the beauty of cursive script."
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.
Knowledge expansion:
In a broad sense, cursive refers to cursive. Including two situations: first, in ancient times when the characters were not uniform, there would naturally be no unified and standardized cursive script, and the cursive script that appeared at that time belonged to the generalized cursive script.
Second, after the unification of words, in case of emergency, or when drafting documents and recording other people's conversations, the strokes are quick, the strokes of Lian Bi are omitted, and the scribbled words written by letters are not standardized. This scribble is difficult to communicate with, and even after a long time, it is difficult for the writer to recognize it. This scrawled word belongs to the generalized cursive script.
Any style of writing requires simplicity and easy writing, and there is a tendency to preserve stick figures and scrawled handwriting. This trend is the main reason for the evolution of characters. In the period of social change and cultural development, characters are frequently used, individuals are easy to simplify, and variant characters are accelerated. In order to make the text more conducive to application, it is necessary to revise it.
There are traces of cursive script in Oracle Bone Inscriptions period. Tai Shi Shu, Li Si Zhuan, Cheng Miao Li Shu and Cai Yong's Xiping Book of Songs, written in eight-part script, are all standard characters promulgated by Zhou, Qin and Han dynasties respectively to standardize the popular characters at that time, and are also recognized as the beginning of a new script that has formed regular script.