In a broad sense, cursive refers to cursive. First, in ancient times when the characters were not unified, there would naturally be no unified and standardized cursive script, and the cursive script that appeared at that time belonged to the generalized cursive script; Second, it refers to the nonstandard scrawled words written by hand in an emergency, or when drafting documents and recording other people's conversations.
In a narrow sense, cursive script refers to Cao Zhang and Cao Jin.
The development of cursive script can be divided into three stages: early cursive script, Cao Zhang cursive script and today's cursive script. The early cursive script was generally called Cao Li, mixed with some forms of seal grass; Cao Zhang is an elegant cursive style that combines early cursive script with Han Li, with distinct waves, wavy strokes, independent characters, squares and horizontal strokes; Cao Zhang took off Li Shu's strokes, and the strokes of the upper and lower characters were connected, and the radicals were simplified and borrowed from each other, thus forming the present grass.
Extended data
The established grass method is both normative and flexible, and its basic contents include:
1, the strokes are omitted and the structure is simple.
2. It is symbolic to use stippling as the basic symbol to replace some radicals and characters.
3. The strokes echo each other, making it easy to write and express the writer's feelings quickly.
The rules and principles of cursive writing: momentum runs through, intricately changes, and reality and reality coexist.
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