Everyone is talking about calligraphy, but do you know when calligraphy originated?

In the primary stage of China's calligraphy, China's characters also experienced changes from Oracle Bone Inscriptions, inscriptions on bronze, big seal script, small seal script, official script, cursive script, running script and original works. Calligraphy during the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties to Sui and Tang Dynasties, the art of calligraphy also entered a new realm. Cursive lines and real calligraphy became the main mainstream calligraphy at that time. Calligraphy theory in Han Dynasty is the source of China's calligraphy history. At that time, calligraphy theory was still immature, including the basic contents of China and calligraphy theory. Some commonly used aesthetics, critical methods and calligraphy ideas appeared in calligraphy theory in Han Dynasty.

The Han Dynasty was also a period when calligraphy was popular. According to historical legends, many emperors were good at calligraphy. After Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty, Zhang Di, Andy and Ling were all people who loved calligraphy. Especially in the period of Emperor Ling, they set up an institution about calligraphy privately, so many calligraphers were concentrated there at that time, and the atmosphere of calligraphy reached its peak. This atmosphere of calligraphy creation directly provides the foundation for the creation of calligraphy works.

The Han Dynasty was a period when calligraphy gradually divorced from practical significance and moved towards pure art .. Therefore, early calligraphy and theory of things were often mixed with academic articles and writing theories. The different development directions are the two pillars of China's calligraphy and theory of things, namely, respecting the will and becoming a monk.

The Han Dynasty was also an era when calligraphy blossomed. Seal script was also widely valued in the Han Dynasty. For example, the ancient Chinese school took the Confucian classics written by seal script as the research object. It is said that the official script was founded by Qin people, but it actually became popular in the Han Dynasty. The font structure and writing method of official script are relatively simple, but varied. Because people's social affairs are diverse, and their dependence on words is getting stronger and stronger in daily life, which means that they are used more and more frequently, so a simple and quick word is needed, and cursive script is born naturally accordingly. Cao Zhang prevailed in the Han Dynasty, but now cursive script and regular script have been formed since the Han Dynasty.