From the development of cursive script, the development of cursive script can be divided into three stages: early cursive script, Cao Zhang cursive script and modern cursive script.
Early cursive script and official script were parallel, generally called official script, but in fact some forms of seal script were mixed.
The early cursive script broke the strict rules of official script and was a hasty writing. It's called Cao Zhang. Cao Zhang is an elegant cursive style, which combines early cursive and Han Li, and has obvious waves, wavy strokes, independent characters, square glyphs and horizontal strokes. Cao Zhang was the most popular in the Han and Wei Dynasties, but it was revived in the Yuan Dynasty and transformed into the Ming Dynasty.
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In order to facilitate writing, after a long process of convention, especially in the period of the transformation from seal script to official script, the popular cursive script has gradually increased and the writing method has gradually unified. After the process of quantitative change to qualitative change, a cursive script with statutes was finally produced, that is, Cao Zhang, which further developed into today's cursive script. In a narrow sense, cursive script refers to Cao Zhang and today's grass.
Cao Zhang's cursive calligraphy has basically taken shape, and the established cursive calligraphy is both standardized and flexible. Its basic contents include the following three aspects: cursive script or cursive script with omitted strokes and simple structure. The cursive script is the most symbolic style, which takes stippling as the basic symbol to replace radicals and a certain part of characters. It is a cursive script with strokes connected and echoing each other, and it is a kind of writing that is convenient for writing quickly and expressing the writer's feelings.