Cursive script can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. Broadly speaking, regardless of the times, all scribbled words can be regarded as cursive. In a narrow sense, that is, as a specific font. Formed in the Han Dynasty, it evolved on the basis of official script for the convenience of writing. The cursive script is divided into Cao Zhang and today's grass, and today's grass is divided into big grass (also called crazy grass) and small grass, which feels beautiful in madness.
Structural features of cursive script:
Although cursive script has a fixed writing method, it provides a lot of space for the change of body structure because of its simple stippling, and pays attention to the principle that the joints of stippling between words are suitable for pen rotation. Otherwise, the stippling structure will appear chaotic. The constant transformation of brush strokes forms the word potential, and cursive script pays special attention to the word potential or body potential, which can be said to be the core of cursive script structure.
Extended data:
Characteristics of cursive writing with pen;
Because cursive scripts are divided into three categories: Cao Zhang, Grass and Grass, so when it comes to cursive stippling, the pens of these three cursive scripts should be separated.
(1) Line is the basic element of a glyph? The stippling of Chinese characters consists of various lines such as thickness, length and straightness. "Line" is the basic element of a glyph. So some people directly call the beauty of calligraphy the beauty of lines. Straight lines give people a feeling of being vigorous, straight and strong, while curves give people a feeling of being round, changeable and soft.
(2) cursive lines should have "strength"? The key to the aesthetic feeling of calligraphy lines lies in "force". Whether the appearance of the line is soft or hard, it needs internal strength. The origin of this power is to give full play to the writer's pen skills and ability to control strokes.
Let the action of the pen and the reaction of the paper form adhesive friction, so that the written lines can reflect the beauty of "force", such as heaviness, ups and downs, linear changes in shape and radian, or graceful and smooth, or thick and concise, or soft and vigorous.
(3) Should cursive lines be dynamic? Cursive lines pursue a sense of turbulence. Turbulence produces changes, and turmoil is full of infinite vitality. Because this line of writing is full of the writer's passion, and this line is based on the "circle" of the pen that represents the center of skill, it is smooth, dynamic and unambiguous.