The correct order: Xiaozhuan, official script, cursive script, regular script and running script
00 Xiaozhuan, Qin Shihuang unified the script into Xiaozhuan
00 Official script originated from Xiaozhuan in the Qin Dynasty, and the Wei Dynasty in the Jin Dynasty Heng said in "Four Body Scripts": "Since Qin used seal script, there were many things to do, so it was difficult to write seal script, so it ordered the official script to assist the script, which is called official script. The official script is also the best in seal script."
00 Cursive script originated in the Han Dynasty. The "Cursive Script" written by Xiao Yan, Emperor Kai of Liang Dynasty, believed that the emergence of modern cursive script was due to: "The princes competed for superiority, and the simple letters were passed down from generation to generation. They were looking for beacons to go to the post, and the difficulties of seal script and official script could not be saved quickly, so they went to the post office. "The urgent script is the modern cursive script." This shows that cursive script was created for the convenience of writing. The first time in history that the name of cursive script was mentioned was "Shuowen Jiezi? Xu", which clearly pointed out that "cursive script existed in the Han Dynasty". From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, major forms such as Zhangcao, Jincao and Kuangcao appeared successively. "Zhangcao" has strict organizational rules, so people call the cursive script with official script in the Han Dynasty "Zhangcao" and the later cursive script with regular script "jincao". Generally speaking, cursive script refers to "modern cursive script". At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a famous cursive calligrapher Zhang Zhi, named Boying, appeared. His calligraphy was exquisite and he was known as the "Sage of Cursive Script". Zhang Huaiguan's "Shu Duan" of the Tang Dynasty listed Zhang Zhi's Zhangcao and Jincao as divine products. In the Tang Dynasty, another famous cursive calligrapher Zhang Xu appeared, named Bogao, who pioneered "Kang Cao" and was known as "Cao Xian".
00 Regular script can be used as a French model for calligraphy practice, so it is called regular script. Regular script is a calligraphy style that is based on the Han Li script, with the addition of hooks and hooks. It is also called "zhengshu" or "zhenshu". Regular script evolved from Han Li, so it was also called "Jin Li" in history. In the Three Kingdoms period, Wei Zhongyao and Jin Wang Xizhi further standardized the style and made regular script a completely independent style.
00 Running script is a calligraphy style between cursive script and regular script. It is also the most commonly used calligraphy style in daily life. Therefore, it can be said to be the cursive version of regular script or the regularized version of cursive script. Zhang Huaiguan, a native of the Tang Dynasty, said: "It's not true or crude, it's called running script." In fact, cursive script was created to remedy the difficulty of legible cursive script and the slowness of regular script writing.