The social progress in the Han Dynasty promoted the prosperity of culture and art. The increasingly busy information exchange made the official script simpler than seal script insufficient for daily application. Although Zhangcao can emerge as the times require, a more concise and standardized font is needed in solemn occasions to serve the king's government and economy. Under the long-term gestation of social practice, a new Chinese character-regular script was born at the end of Han Dynasty. With the strong vitality of new things, this new calligraphy style has developed from Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties to Sui and Tang Dynasties, and has become a modern Chinese character style with the widest application range and the longest use history, and has shined brilliantly in the practical field of Chinese character and calligraphy creation.
Section 1 Origin and Formation Period
The change of grass has always been the inducement of the evolution of calligraphy, but. The development of culture and art in Han Dynasty promoted the prosperity of calligraphy in China. Full-time calligraphers and folk calligraphers carried out the same evolution of Chinese characters and artistic creation practice in different fields. It can be seen from 1973 the fragments of the silk script of the Warring States period unearthed from Mawangdui No.3 Han Tomb in Changsha, Hunan Province that some characters such as "Wen" and "Xin" had been written in regular script as early as the Western Han Dynasty.