The main feature of official script is straightness.
Clerical script is a font of Chinese characters, including Qin Li, Han Li, etc. It is generally believed to be developed from seal script. The fonts are mostly wide and flat, with long horizontal strokes and short vertical strokes. They pay attention to the "silkworm head and swallow tail" ", "Twists and turns." According to the unearthed slips, official script was founded in the Qin Dynasty. It is said that Cheng Miao was the official. Han official script reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It inherited the tradition of seal script at the top and opened up the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. It has a considerable influence on later calligraphy, and the calligraphy world It is known as "Han Li Tang Kai".
As for the definition of official script, a recent scholar, Mr. Wu Botao, said in an article: "Looking at Early Qin and Han Official Script from Unearthed Qin Bamboo Bamboo Bamboo Scripts": "The original meaning of this word can be used to explain it." "Li" means "attachment", while "Book of the Later Han·Feng Yichuan" explains that it means "affiliation". This meaning is still used today, and the word "affiliation" exists in modern Chinese.
"Book of Jin Wei Heng Biography", "Shuowen Jie Zi Preface" and paragraph annotations also believe that official script is "not covered by Sasuke Seal", so official script is an auxiliary font of Xiaozhuan. "Secondly, what is the truth? What is called Li, and what are the strict differences between Li and Zhuan? Mr. Wu Botao has analyzed and determined it in the above-mentioned article. Here are a few excerpts from Wu's article that are worthy of consideration.
Wu Yun: "The small seal script also preserves the legacy of the pictographic characters, and draws the finished objects to fit with the body; the official script goes a step further, using stroke symbols to destroy the knots of the pictographic characters, becoming an inseparable Pictograms of pictograms” (he has examples of glyphs, please refer to the original text).