Why is official script the basis of Chinese characters?

Official script, also known as Han Li, is a solemn Chinese character style relative to seal script. The writing effect is slightly wider and flatter, and the horizontal painting is long, straight and short, exquisite? Silkworm head dovetail? 、? Three twists and turns? .

After the reunification of China, Qin Shihuang tried to implement it? Same book? After Li Si was ordered to create the seal script, he also adopted the official script compiled by Cheng Miao. Because the writing speed of Xiao Zhuan as an official script is slow, it turns the official script into a square fold and improves the writing efficiency. Xu Shen recorded this history in Shuo Wen Jie Zi in Han Dynasty:? Qin burned the scriptures and washed the old ones, which made great contributions to the garrison, and there were countless prison posts. There was an official script to make an appointment. Qin Shihuang was made by the next person, Cheng Miao. ?

Zhang Tang's book Huai Guan also said:? Cheng is the originator of official script. According to legend, Dangshan was originally a jailer in the county, which offended the first emperor. He spent ten years in Yunyang prison, and gained a lot. The brushwork of seal script became an official script of 3,000 words. At the beginning, the emperor was good at it as a suggestion. Its books are convenient for officials and prisoners to write books, so it is called official books. ? So, people call this official script? Qin Li? .

In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, Qin Li's style was still used, but great changes began to take place in Xin Mang, resulting in the wave ending writing of stippling. The appearance of flat, neat and exquisite Han Li is a major reform of China's writing.

The Eastern Han Dynasty was the most prosperous period, and Li Shu's strokes, such as left and right strokes, were beautified as upward provocation, with different weights. Calligraphy was artistic and beautiful, resulting in many styles, leaving a large number of stone carvings, which had high artistic appreciation value. Do people call this official script? Han Li? .

Official script actually evolved from seal script, mainly changing the round strokes of seal script into square folds, which is the origin of square Chinese characters and the writing speed is faster. Qin Li, as a start-up, has many traces of seal script, which has gradually laid the foundation of regular script after revision by later generations. In the Han dynasty, cursive script, regular script and running script were derived, which laid the foundation of art.

From the later Han Dynasty to the Western Jin Dynasty? Cao Li? , is the scribble writing of official script, or the brushwork of lines and cursive script is integrated into official script, which means official script, but less failure and more roundness. However, most of the official documents at that time were regular script. After Wei and Jin Dynasties, among the calligraphy categories, running script, cursive script and regular script developed rapidly. Although the official script was not abandoned, it developed slowly and almost kept its original appearance. There are many calligraphers in the official script of the Tang Dynasty, such as Xu Hao. Song Yuanming's official script can hardly inspire Han Li's brilliance.

It was not until the Qing Dynasty that official script showed new vitality again. At that time, it was the revival of stele study, and people paid attention to official script again. A group of famous Yi calligraphers, such as Zheng Bi and Jin Nong, have their own unique innovations on the basis of inheriting Han Li.