The Four Styles of Calligraphy: Zhen, Cao, Li, and Zhuan
The Four Gentlemen of Traditional Chinese Painting: Plum, Orchid, Bamboo, and Chrysanthemum
Four Heroes in the Literary Circle of the Early Tang Dynasty in my country: Wang Bo , Yang Jiong, Lu Zhaolin, Luo Binwang
The four great literary masters of the Northern Song Dynasty in my country: Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi, Su Dongpo, Huang Tingjian
The four great masters of regular script in my country: Tang Dynasty-Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, Ouyang Xun, Yuan Dynasty - Zhao Mengfu
The Four Arts of Ancient Chinese Scholars: Qin, Chess, Calligraphy, and Painting
The Eight Styles of Calligraphy
amp; The Eight Styles of Qin Book refers to The Qin Dynasty's BaTi refers to the eight writing fonts. Here are the following descriptions:
1. Large Seal Script: These are fifteen texts written by Taishi Zhou during the reign of King Xuan of Zhou Dynasty. A "Zhenwen" is named after the writer. According to the paragraph annotation, it includes ancient texts (see page 766 of "Shuowen").
2. Small Seal Script: Li Si, Zhao Gao, and Hu Mu of the Qin Dynasty made changes based on the Big Seal Script and wrote "Cangjie", "Yanli", and "Boxue" respectively. The fonts are different from the Big Seal Script. So it is called Xiaozhuan. It is also called "Qin Seal" because these glyphs were created by people in the Qin Dynasty and are popular in contemporary times, so they are called "Qin Seal".
3. Engraved talisman: It is the font engraved on the talisman section.
4. Chongshu: It is the font written on flags or talismans. Because some of these fonts resemble birds and some resemble insects, and birds are also called feather insects, they are called insect books.
5. Copy: It is the font written on the printing material. Printing materials have different sizes, so they must be planned before writing and engraving. This is why it is called "copying". This font is characterized by careful curvature.
6. Signature is the text inscribed on the plaque.
7. Shushu are the words cast on weapons. Shu is a kind of weapon.
8. The official script was written by Cheng Miao, a native of Xiadu (now south of Chang'an County, Shaanxi Province) ordered by Qin Shihuang. This font is convenient for writing and cannot assist seal script.
According to the literary knowledge in middle school Chinese textbooks, the font changes of Chinese characters are: oracle bone inscriptions - bronze inscriptions (inscriptions, bells and tripods) - seal script (large and small seal script) - official script - cursive script - Regular script - running script.