In this process, it can be said that writing has played an important role in the popularization of practical writing in Cao Zhang. For example, many famous calligraphers at that time, such as You Shi, Du Du, Cui Yuan and Huang Xiang, attached great importance to the popularization of Cao Zhang and made many works. Articles? Write? Chapter? The popularity of this form greatly promoted the popularization of cursive art in the Eastern Han Dynasty. However, in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the cursive art has gradually separated from the practical category of words, and its purpose is artistry and expressiveness. For example, at that time, the new cursive script was only popular in aristocratic families and literati circles with high cultural literacy, such as Wang, Xie, Yu, etc., while craftsmen living at the bottom of society and even many lower-level literati could only use old cursive scripts, which was basically out of touch with the emerging cursive scripts. This is also the inevitable development of cultural history and calligraphy history, and it is an objective reality that no one can avoid.
The appearance of this grass broke the cursive script? What's the difference between words? Mode, the writing speed is greatly accelerated, until the Lian Bi phenomenon appears, that is, the lines have a coherent movement relationship. Of course, this is related to the calligraphy style of Jin people, but it is also a sign that calligraphy art is becoming conscious. The emergence of this grass means that literati and calligraphers have taken another big step in expressing their ups and downs and unpredictable emotional world, among which Wang Xizhi is undoubtedly an outstanding representative. It was he who really matured cursive script and formed his own free and easy, detached and open-minded personality style. On the basis of Xi, his son made bold innovations. Breaking the body? Reform, instead of? Do what you want? 、? Decorate the flowers? what's up A book? It is undoubtedly a glorious period in the history of cursive script. In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the comprehensive maturity of regular script art marked the end of the evolution of calligraphy style. It is impossible and unnecessary for literati calligraphers to make a fuss about calligraphy style, but they can only do something unconventional in calligraphy style, so there is the most artistic expression of Mad Grass. Because of the low level of literacy, it is completely divorced from practical purposes and has nothing to do with the evolution of fonts. This is purely an artistic means for calligraphers to express their individuality and pursue themselves. Individualized calligraphy style and pure pursuit of visual effects form two fulcrums on which the calligraphy style of Crazy Grass depends.
Of course, as Confucius said? Crazy people make progress, and arrogant people do something. ? The emergence of cursive script is also related to two epoch-making calligraphy predecessors in the Tang Dynasty. Crazy element? Inseparable. For example, Zhang Xu was reckless, slovenly, and often drunk. Who knew it was Li Bai and others? Drink eight immortals? ; Huai Su believed in Buddhism, but he was charming and informal. He bluntly said in the post about eating fish? The old monk ate fish in Changsha, but he ate more meat in Chang 'an. , is a completely unruly image. However, it was these two people who, under the influence of romanticism in the middle Tang Dynasty, created the acme of cursive art? Crazy grass reached the peak of cursive art, gave full play to the lyricism of China's calligraphy, and even fell into it in his creation? Crazy? Realm can be said to be the inevitable product of calligraphy's high consciousness, and it also lays a solid foundation for calligraphy art to expand its living space in today's great artistic atmosphere. Any style of writing requires simplicity and easy writing, and there is a tendency to preserve stick figures and scrawled handwriting. This trend is the main reason for the evolution of characters. In the period of social change and cultural development, characters are frequently used, individuals are easy to simplify, and variant characters are accelerated. In order to make the text more conducive to application, it is necessary to revise it. There are traces of cursive script in Oracle Bone Inscriptions period. ? Master Zhou Xuanwang wrote a script? 、? Li Si is a seal character? 、? Official script written by Cheng Miao? As well as Cai Yong's Eight-legged essay "Xiping Shijing", which was published in Qin and Han Dynasties in two weeks, standardized the popular characters at that time, and was also recognized as the beginning of a new book that had formed regular script.
But the trend towards simplicity has not stopped. As early as the Shang Dynasty, Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Zhou Dynasty, which recorded great events between emperors and generals, there were simple strokes and scrawled handwriting. Is Qu Yuan Cao Meng? 、? Didn't Dong Zhongshu's letter go up? It shows that it is wrong to write the ancient prose of the Warring States and the official script of the Western Han Dynasty quickly. According to the records of Wei and Jin Dynasties, Liu Mu, the king of Beihai in the Eastern Han Dynasty? A good history book, when the world thinks it is a model? Before Liu Mu died, Ming Di sent a letter to Ma? Make ten cursive letters? . During the reign of Zhang, it was a good example to learn Chinese characters. Emperor Zhang once ordered the writing of cursive script. It can be seen that since the middle of 1 century, cursive characters have not been written in a hurry, but have been cherished and imitated. It can be seen from the Han bamboo slips unearthed in modern times that the simplified characters of the official script of 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. However, from the Zhou Dynasty to Xin Mang, cursive script was never listed as a kind of calligraphy.
Shuo Wen Jie Zi was written in 12 years (AD 100). What is Xu Shen talking about? Hanxing has cursive script? , is the beginning of cursive as a writing style. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, famous artists such as Zhang and later Zhong You emerged in large numbers, each of which became a genre. At that time, Zhao Yi had an article "Non-cursive script", and Cai Yong also had a similar discussion on maintaining the status of orthography, which reflected that cursive script was very popular. From the end of the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, cursive script developed from Cao Zhang with the meaning of official script to today's cursive script, and even to wild cursive script.