Time of appearance: Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the cultural product of Shang Dynasty (about17th century BC-0 BC/1century BC), about 3600 years ago.
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1, majestic period
From Pan Geng to Wuding for about 100 years, influenced by the flourishing age of Wuding, the calligraphy style is magnificent, which is the acme of oracle calligraphy. Generally speaking, the strokes are round, sharp, tortuous and varied, and they are full of vigor regardless of their size.
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It took about forty years from Zu Geng to Zujia. Both of them are holy kings. Calligraphy in this period was sincere, generally inherited the style of the previous generation, stuck to the rules, and rarely made new creations, but it was not as vigorous and bold as the previous generation.
3. Decadence period
It has been fourteen years since Suan Xin came to Kangding. This period can be said to be the autumn of the decline of literary style in Yin Dynasty. Although there are still many neat books, the paragraphs are scattered and irregular, not so regular, a little childish and confused, and the number of typos is not uncommon.
4. Steep period
It took about seventeen years to get from Wuyishan to Dingding. Wu Wending is determined to restore the grandeur of the Wuding era, and his calligraphy style has turned vigorous and vigorous, showing the atmosphere of ZTE, with a very strong style in his slender brushwork.
5. Strict period
It's about 89 years since I first came to Di Xin. Calligraphy style tends to be rigorous, slightly close to the second phase; Lengthened in length, cautious, not decadent, and lacking in heroic spirit.
Ancient bronze inscriptions
Time of appearance: Bronze Age of Shang and Zhou Dynasties. The bronze inscriptions on Yin and Zhou bronzes are also called Zhong Dingwen. Shang and Zhou Dynasties were the bronze age, with the tripod as the representative ritual vessel and the bell as the representative musical instrument. "Zhong Ding" was synonymous with bronze ware.
China entered the Bronze Age in Xia Dynasty, and the technology of copper smelting and bronze ware manufacturing was very developed. Because the Zhou Dynasty called copper gold, the inscriptions on bronzes were called "inscriptions on bronzes" or "auspicious words"; This bronze ware was called "Zhong Dingwen" in the past because it had the largest number of characters on Zhong Ding. ?
Prevailing time: the application of bronze inscriptions lasted for about 800 years from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the Qin Dynasty. According to Rong Geng's Jin Wen Bian, there are 3,722 inscriptions, of which 2,420 can be identified.
big seal character
Time of appearance: Da Zhuan appeared more than 6000 years ago. Three thousand years ago, Oracle Bone Inscriptions in the Yin and Shang Dynasties, bronze inscriptions in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties and Shi Guwen in the Spring and Autumn Period were called the Great Seal of the Qin Dynasty.
Prevailing time: Dazhuan was widely used in the late Western Zhou Dynasty.
Small/small seal characters
Time of appearance: After Qin Shihuang unified China (22 1 year ago), Xiao Zhuan implemented the policy of "homonym, cars on the same track", and the policy of unified measurement was under the responsibility of Prime Minister Li Si. On the basis of the seal script originally used by Qin State, Xiao Zhuan simplified it, canceled the other six characters and created a unified writing form of Chinese characters.
Prevailing time: Xiao Zhuan was popular in China until the end of the Western Han Dynasty (about 8 AD), and was gradually replaced by official script. Until the fall of the feudal dynasty, modern new anti-counterfeiting technology appeared.
official script
Time of appearance: According to the unearthed bamboo slips, official script originated in Qin Dynasty, and it is said that Cheng Miao was an official, and Han Li reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty, inheriting the tradition of seal script and opening the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Prevailing time: from Qin Dynasty to Qing Dynasty. After Wei and Jin Dynasties, calligraphy, cursive script, running script and regular script formed and developed rapidly. Although the official script has not been abandoned, it has not changed much and has been silent for a long time. In the Qing Dynasty, in the wave of the revival of stele study, official script was re-valued, and famous calligraphers such as Zheng Xie and Jin Nong appeared, who made innovations on the basis of inheriting Han Li.
regular script
Time of appearance: The development history of regular script in China is divided into four periods: the embryonic period of regular script-Qin and Han dynasties, the development period of regular script-Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the prosperity period of regular script-Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, and the regular script period-Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Prevailing time: From the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Jin and Tang Dynasties, regular script prevailed in China feudal society.
cursive script
Time of appearance: cursive script was formed in Han Dynasty. The origin of cursive script is uncertain when it began.
Prevailing time: Simplified characters of official script in the Western Han Dynasty have become popular. In the era of Xin Mang, there were more stroke-saving and ligature characters. In the 22nd year of Jianwu (AD 46), the bamboo slips were completely cursive.
Semi-cursive/running/calligraphy (China's calligraphy)
Time of appearance: the running script appeared at the same time as the eight-part essay, and the form was very close to the eight-part essay and the later official script.
Prevailing time: The appearance of Wang Xizhi in Jin Dynasty made it popular.
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Chinese characters
Chinese characters have changed for more than 6000 years, and the evolution process is as follows:
Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, big seal script, small seal script, official script, cursive script, regular script and running script.
Such as "Ming → Sun and Moon", "Yi → Sun and Moon" and "Dan → Sun and Moon" (the bottom "one" means "land" and "?" Divination, three yang, such as "heaven, man and earth") and "manifestation → sun karma" ("karma" means that there are dense trees on the ground, and "sun" has reached the treetops, too bright and too obvious).
These words can form more words. Such as: "alliance → opening dishes" and "kicking →? Yi ","wet → obvious "and" Dan → Dan ".
Word-making and Yi-li are completely connected here, that is, the so-called fuzzy thinking of "image-taking physiology" and the dichotomy principle of "yin-yang interaction".
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