At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, Qin Li's style was still used, but it began to change greatly in the Xin Mang period, resulting in the writing method of stippling. By the Eastern Han Dynasty, many styles had been produced, leaving a large number of stone carvings. Zhang Qianbei, Ying Ying North and Cao Quanbei are the representative works of this period.
In the Han Dynasty, official script replaced Xiao Zhuan as the main script. After the Han Dynasty, the writing style of Chinese characters gradually changed from wooden slips and bamboo slips to writing on silk paper with a brush. The appearance of official script laid the foundation of modern Chinese character glyph structure and became the watershed of ancient and modern characters.
Official script is one of the eight major fonts in Qin Shu, and it is a common solemn font in Chinese characters. Its writing effect is slightly wide and flat, and the horizontal painting is long and the vertical painting is short, showing a rectangle, paying attention to "silkworm head and goose tail" and "twists and turns". Lishu originated in the Qin Dynasty and was reportedly compiled by Cheng Miao, reaching its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Calligraphy is known as "Han Li Tang Kai".
Li Bian, also known as Li Ding, is the evolution of Chinese characters from Xiao Zhuan to Li Shu, which happened during the Qin and Han Dynasties. It is a turning point in the development of Chinese characters and has a great influence on later Chinese characters. Before Xiao Zhuan, China characters still followed the principle of "six characters", while Han Li no longer followed the principle of "six characters" and changed the font by himself. Modern writing methods of regular script and running script are not far from those after the official reform.