What are Chinese characters, calligraphy and fonts?

Oracle Bone Inscriptions; Da Zhuan (Shu Shu, Jinwen/Zhong Dingwen, Shi Guwen, Miao Zhuan, Flower, Bird and Insect Zhuan, etc. ): First, it is linear. In the early days, the lines with uneven thickness became even and soft, and the lines drawn in kind were very concise and vivid; Second, standardization, the glyph structure tends to be neat, and gradually deviates from the original shape of the picture, laying the foundation for the square characters. The big seal is for the later small seal.

Small seal; Jade Luo tattoo, jade hairpin body, and unique people like "Tianfa Shenbei" and so on. ): the shape is long, even and round, which evolved from Dayin. Xiao Zhuan was ordered to be unified in the Qin Dynasty, and Li Si himself was the best Xiao Zhuan.

Official script (regular script, Han bamboo slips, Han Li, etc.). ): Official script is basically evolved from seal script, mainly changing the round strokes of seal script into square folds, which makes writing faster, and it is difficult to draw round strokes when writing with pigments on wooden slips.

Cao Zhang: Cao Zhang is the predecessor of "modern grass". The main difference between Cao Zhang and "Modern Grass" is to keep the brushwork of official script, and the upper and lower characters are independent and unconnected.

Today's grass (wild grass): Wild grass is a continuous writing of stippling on the basis of today's grass, forming a "pen book", which is in the same strain as today's grass in composition.

Weeds, expressionism in calligraphy. The achievement of Crazy Grass is another manifestation of the peak of calligraphy in Tang Dynasty. Its representative figures are Zhang Xu and Huai Xu, known as "Cao Sheng" in history.

Regular script (official script/original script, regular script): Regular script, also called regular script, regular script, official script or original script, is a common font in China's calligraphy. Its glyph is square, unlike the flat one written in official script. Regular script is still the reference standard of modern calligraphy in China, and another kind of calligraphy, pen-and-ink, has also developed.

Personally, I prefer Yu Shinan and Ou Yangxun.

Running script: Running script is a font between regular script and cursive script, which can be said to be cursive script or cursive script. It is to make up for the shortcomings of slow writing in regular script and illegible cursive script. The brushwork is not as sloppy as cursive script, and it is not required to be as correct as regular script. Running script into Wang Xizhi's hand perfectly combines practicality and artistry. As a result, the colorful southern calligraphy art has emerged and become the most influential school in the history of calligraphy.