The awakening period of China's calligraphy was the Eastern Han Dynasty.

From 206 BC to 426 AD, the dynasty was divided into two historical periods: the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), which were collectively called the Han Dynasty. The Han Dynasty was a powerful empire and created a splendid civilization. Known as "Han and Tang Dynasties" together with the later Tang Dynasty, it represents the most powerful era of China's imperial system. Han Empire, Roman Empire and Indian Peacock Dynasty were the most advanced civilizations in the world at that time. The society and system established during the Han Dynasty continued into the 20th century. China people still call themselves "Han people", and the tribes in the Central Plains, which are dominated by Chinese people, are gradually called "Han people", and their writing system is also called "Chinese characters".

Han Dynasty is a key generation in the history of calligraphy development in China. Calligraphy in Han Dynasty inherited from Qin Zhuan and Qin Li, and started from Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. It is the beginning of cursive script, so it is an extremely important period in the history of calligraphy in China.

At this time, the characters of seal script gradually decreased, which were mostly found in inscriptions, seals, tiles, bronze mirrors and a small number of stone carvings, and the brushwork was also influenced by official script. Lishu is a popular calligraphy style in the Han Dynasty, with a large number of bamboo slips and carved stones as the main circulation methods, resulting in extremely artistic and stylized calligraphy of Han steles.

1. official script stereotype

The greatest contribution of calligraphy art in the Han Dynasty lies in the stereotype of official script in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which fundamentally changed the "six scripts" rule of Chinese character structure modeling before Xiao Zhuan and became the official script norm with strict laws and regulations. Because of its writing characteristics, because of the stroke of the pen and the opening of the body, it is called "eight-point book"