Chinese characters are divided into five styles: seal script, official script, running script, cursive script and regular script. But today, regular script, official script and running script are very practical and have been widely used in real life. Among them, Lishu, which originated in Qin Dynasty and matured in Han Dynasty, as a calligraphy style, has been highly praised by calligraphers and has become an important form of expression.
Official script originated in Qin dynasty and developed from seal script. Lishu is a kind of seal script that turns complexity into simplicity, roundness into square, and arc into straightness. Most of the characters are wide and flat, and the horizontal painting is long and the vertical painting is short, and it pays attention to "silkworm head and goose tail" and "twists and turns".
Zhang Qianbei is a work in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Simple and honest, strong and powerful, it can be called the masterpiece of this style in the Han monument. "Fang Bi" is often used in the whole brushwork, with sharp edges and corners, and is characterized by uniformity, straightness, squareness and flatness. The thickness of strokes is between bisection and trisection.
There is less white cloth in the characters, and compared with other Han steles, the sense of heaviness and volume is particularly obvious. The space occupied by each word is also relatively symmetrical, and the complex changes are manifested in the strokes.
The tablet structure is mainly flat, with unique characters, square and crisp, rigorous structure and concise brushwork. The style of this book is correct, simple and powerful. At first glance, it seems naive, but careful taste can make it exquisite. The composition and style are also smart, calm and powerful, and quaint.