The evolution order of Chinese characters is: Oracle Bone Inscriptions-> Jinwen->; Xiao Chuan-> Official script-> Cursive script-> Regular script-> semi-cursive/running script/hand (in Chinese calligraphy)
1, cursive script was formed in the early Han Dynasty and evolved from official script for simplicity.
At that time, it was "Cao Li", that is, scribbled official script, which gradually developed into a kind of "Cao Zhang" with artistic value. Before the Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhi changed "Cao Zhang" to "modern grass", and the character style was formed in one stroke. In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Xu and Huai Su developed into "weeds", with continuous strokes and changeable glyphs.
The cursive script is characterized by simple structure and continuous strokes. "Big grass" and "small grass" are symmetrical. Big grass is pure grass-based and difficult to identify. Zhang Xu and Huai Su are good at it, and their words are written in one stroke, sometimes out of line, but the context is constant.
2. Regular script began in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the official script founded by Cheng Miao gradually evolved. It is more simplified, square in shape and straight in strokes, which can be used as a model and popular in modern times.
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The evolution of Chinese characters:
China script, Chinese characters, came into being in the late Shang Dynasty, about14th century BC, when a preliminary stereotyped script, namely Oracle Bone Inscriptions, was formed. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is both a hieroglyph and a phonography. Until now, there are still some pictographs in Chinese characters, which are very vivid.
In the late Western Zhou Dynasty, Chinese characters developed into Da Zhuan. Later, Li Si, the prime minister of Qin Dynasty, simplified Da Zhuan and changed it to Xiao Zhuan. However, seal script also has its own fundamental shortcoming, that is, it is very inconvenient to write lines with a pen, so almost at the same time, a kind of official script with flat sides has been produced. Almost at the same time, it also produced a kind of official script, whose shape expanded into a flat square on both sides.
By the Han dynasty, it had reached a mature stage, and the readability and writing speed of Chinese characters had been greatly improved. After Li Shu, it evolved into Cao Zhang, and now it is grass. In the Tang dynasty, there was Weeds, which expressed the writer's thoughts and feelings with a pen. Subsequently, regular script (also known as original script), a combination of official script and cursive script, became popular in the Tang Dynasty.
Modern printing is evolved from regular script.
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