Early cursive script:
Early cursive script and official script were parallel, generally called official script, but in fact some forms of seal script were mixed.
An example of official grass
Commemorative manuscript
Cao Zhang is a writing form that evolved from seal script to official script. It belongs to a link in the process from the embryonic stage to the standardization of cursive script.
At first, the font "Cao Zhang" was only called "cursive script", but after the appearance of "Cao Jin", it was renamed "Cao Zhang" to show the difference.
Cao Zhang was roughly formed in the first year of Xuanyuan in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms and the Western Jin Dynasty. It has become a mature and perfect calligraphy style, representing the face of cursive art from the Western Han Dynasty to the Eastern Jin Dynasty for more than 400 years.
The example of Cao Zhang.
Modern cursive script
On the basis of inheriting Cao Zhang, this grass has completed the development from official script to regular script, line style and style change, and further eliminated the little waves of Cao Zhang, becoming a more free and simple grass style. The brush strokes of this grass are continuous and tortuous, and there are couplets between words, so writing is simple and convenient.
Zhang Zhi was one of the earliest modern grass masters in China in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and later generations listed Zhang Zhi as a "sage of grass". This kind of grass was developed and perfected by Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Weeds is one of the most indulgent cursive scripts. The strokes are continuous and tortuous, and the font is changeable. Legend has it that it originated from Zhang Zhi in Han Dynasty and spread to Zhang Xu and Huai Su in Tang Dynasty.
Examples of this grass
Example of weeds