1. The development history is different
Cursive script: a font produced for writing convenience. It began in the early Han Dynasty. At that time, it was "Caoli", that is, scribbled official script, which gradually developed and formed a kind of "Zhangcao" with artistic value. Before the Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhi changed "Zhangcao" into "Modern Grass", and the style of characters was formed in one stroke. In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Xu and Huai Su developed into "wild grass" with continuous brushstrokes and varied glyphs.
Running script came into being at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Running script is a font between modern cursive script and regular script, which can be said to be cursive script or cursive script. The most famous masterpiece is Preface to the Lanting Pavilion by Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The predecessors described it as "the dragon jumps into the heaven and the tiger lies in the phoenix pavilion" and praised it as "the best running script in the world".
2. Different characteristics
The cursive script is characterized by simple structure and continuous strokes. "Big Grass" and "Little Grass" are symmetrical. Big Grass is purely grass-based, which is difficult to identify. Zhang Xu and Huai Su are good at it, and their words are formed in one stroke, occasionally disconnected, but their veins are constant.
the running script is a kind of writing style between the script and the script. Write more indulgent flow, close to the cursive script called cursive; The writing is relatively correct and stable, close to the standard of regular script. In the process of writing, the stroke of the brush is obvious in various forms of stippling. This stroke of the brush often leaves a delicate trace between stippling and words, which is silk connection.
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Development of cursive script
From the development of cursive script, the development of cursive script can be divided into three stages: early cursive script, chapter script and modern script.
The early cursive script was parallel to the official script, commonly called official script, but actually mixed with some forms of seal script.
The early cursive script broke the strict rules of the official script and was a sloppy writing. It is called "Zhangcao". Zhangcao is an elegant cursive style that blends early cursive script with han li. Its waves are distinct, the strokes are linked in a wave shape, the characters are independent, the glyphs are all over the square, and the strokes are horizontal. Zhangcao was the most popular in the Han and Wei Dynasties, but it was revived in the Yuan Dynasty and transformed into the Ming Dynasty.
at the end of the Han dynasty, Zhangcao was further "grassed", and the strokes of Lishu were removed, so that the strokes of the upper and lower characters were connected, and the radicals were simplified and borrowed, which was called "modern grass". Today's grass evolved from Zhang Cao, and the calligraphy style of today's grass has been popular since Wei and Jin Dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty, this grass was written more indulgently, with continuous strokes and varied glyphs, which was called "Crazy Grass", also known as Big Grass.
Today, the aesthetic value of cursive script far exceeds its practical value. The cursive script is to connect the words with dots according to a certain law, with simple structure, and it is borrowed by the side, and it is not arbitrary scribbling. One of the main features of cursive symbols is the hook connection of strokes, including up and down hook connection and left and right hook connection. The horizontal tendency of Li Hua's brushwork provides a basis for the grassization of left and right hooks.
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