The historical development of Xiaozhuan in the Qin Dynasty is as follows:
Since King Ping of the Zhou Dynasty moved eastward to Luoyi (now Luoyang, Henan) in 770 BC, it experienced more than 500 years of development by the princes. During the Spring and Autumn Period of annexation and the Warring States Period when the Seven Kingdoms competed for hegemony; in terms of language and writing, the phenomenon of "speech with different sounds" and "writing with different shapes" appeared. According to historical records, there were 194 different ways of writing "宝" at that time.
There are 104 ways to write the word eyebrow, and there are more than a hundred ways to write the word "shou". Some fonts are soft and flowing, dense and exaggerated, some are long and long, and some have crazy structures. Although this provides rich content for the development of calligraphy art, it brings inconvenience to the exchange of ideas.
After Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms (221 BC), he implemented the policy of "writing with the same text and carriages with the same track" and unifying weights and measures. Li Si, the Prime Minister, was responsible for it. The large seal script was originally used in the Qin State. On the basis of the tumor text, it was simplified and a unified Chinese character writing form was created. It was popular from the Qin Dynasty to the end of the Western Han Dynasty (about 8 AD), and was gradually replaced by official script.
However, because of its beautiful font and quite ancient charm, it has always been favored by calligraphers. And because its strokes are complex, its form is ancient, and its eyes can be twisted at will. For seal engraving, especially official seals that require anti-counterfeiting, seal script has been used until the fall of the feudal dynasty and the emergence of new anti-counterfeiting technology in modern times.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the feudal lords were divided, and the Chinese characters of each country appeared to be different from simplified to traditional, and one character had multiple shapes. After Qin Shihuang destroyed the six kingdoms, he ordered that the "Xiaomeng" of Qin be used as the standard to unify the national writing system. Seal script, also known as "Meng script", is the collective name of small seal script and large seal script. Because it is customary to call "box script" large seal script, later generations often refer to "zhuan script" specifically as small seal script.
Chinese characters have developed into the Xiaozhuan stage, and they have gradually begun to take shape (outlines, strokes, and structures). The pictographic meaning has been weakened, making the characters more symbolic and reducing confusion and difficulties in writing and reading. This is also For the first time in Chinese history, administrative means were used to regulate written products on a large scale.
The Qin Dynasty used the compiled Xiaozhuan script to unify the national script. important meaning.