1. Different development histories
Cursive script: a font created for the convenience of writing. It began in the early Han Dynasty. What was commonly used at that time was "Cao Li", that is, scrawled official script. Later, it gradually developed into a kind of "Zhang Cao" with artistic value. In the late Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhi changed "Zhangcao" to "Jincao", forming the style of the characters in one stroke. In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Xu and Huai Su developed "Kang Cao" with continuous and convoluted strokes and numerous changes in glyphs.
Running script was produced around the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Running script is a font between modern cursive and regular script. It can be said to be the cursive version of regular script or the regular script version of cursive script. The most famous representative work is the "Orchid Pavilion Preface" written by Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. His predecessors described his calligraphy as "dragon leaping over the Tianmen, tiger crouching in the Phoenix Pavilion", and was praised as "the best running script in the world".
2. Different characteristics
The characteristics of cursive script are simple structure and continuous strokes. "Big grass" and "small grass" are relatively symmetrical. The big grass is purely made of grass and is difficult to identify. Zhang Xu and Huaisu are good at this. Their characters are written in one stroke, with occasional discontinuities, but the blood flow is continuous.
Running script is a calligraphy style between regular script and cursive script. Those who write more freely and freely, closer to cursive script, are called Xingcao; those who write more upright and steady, closer to regular script, are called Xingkai. In the process of writing, the movement of the brush strokes is more obvious in various forms of stipple painting. This movement of the brush strokes often leaves traces of mutual involvement between the stipples and between the words, as thin as a gossamer. traces, this is Silian.
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Development of cursive script
From the perspective of the development of cursive script: the development of cursive script can be divided into three stages: early cursive script, chapter cursive script and modern cursive script.
Early cursive script is a calligraphy style parallel to official script, generally called official script. In fact, it is mixed with some seal cursive styles.
The early cursive script broke the rules and strict rules of official script and was a hasty writing method. It's called "Zhangcao". Zhangcao is an elegant cursive style that combines early cursive script and Han official script. It has clear waves, the strokes are connected in a "wave" shape, the characters are independent, the characters are all square, and the pen is horizontal. Zhangcao was most popular during the Han and Wei dynasties. It was revived in the Yuan Dynasty and transformed into the Ming Dynasty.
At the end of the Han Dynasty, Zhangcao was further "cursed", removing the traces of official script strokes, and the strokes between the upper and lower characters were connected. The radicals were also simplified and borrowed from each other, which was called "Jincao". Jincao evolved from Zhangcao's elimination of waves and challenges. Jincao style has been popular since the Wei and Jin Dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty, Jincao was written more indulgently, with continuous and winding strokes and various character shapes, which was called "Kangcao", also known as Dacao.
Today, the aesthetic value of cursive script far exceeds its practical value. Cursive script is a combination of dots and dashes of words according to certain rules, with a simple structure and borrowed radicals. It is not just random writing. One of the main features of cursive symbols is that the strokes are connected with hooks, including upper and lower hooks and left and right hooks. The horizontal tendency of Lihua's brushwork provides the basis for the cursiveization of left and right hooks.
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