It is wrong for Qin Xiaozhuan’s strokes to be thick, thick, round and plump. This is not the characteristic of Qin Xiaozhuan.
Thick, thick, round and plump strokes are the characteristics of official script, and the characteristics of Qin Xiaozhuan are: the shape of the characters is slender, no matter how many strokes there are, they must be written in a rectangular shape, and the entire characters must form a beautiful form of dense top and sparse at the bottom. The structure of seal script is symmetrical. During the evolution of seal script from hieroglyphic large seal script to small seal script, the symmetrical beauty of the structure is preserved and strengthened.
The lines are round and smooth. No matter the length of the stipple, the strokes show the beauty of even thickness. They must be smooth in the round and have rhythm in the smoothness.
Xiaozhuan
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. Prime Minister Li Si was responsible for this. Based on the large seal script originally used in China, 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 twists and turns can be added at will, seals were carved in seal script, especially official seals that required anti-counterfeiting, 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, when the feudal lords were separated, the Chinese characters in various countries appeared to be different from simplified to traditional, and one character had multiple shapes. After Qin Shihuang destroyed the six kingdoms, he ordered to use Qin's "Xiaozhuan" as the standard to unify the national writing system. Seal script, also known as "seal script", is the collective name of small seal script and large seal script. Because it is customary to call "zhuan 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 gradually begun to take shape (outlines, strokes, and structures). The pictographic meaning has weakened, making the characters more symbolic and reducing confusion and difficulties in writing and reading. This is also the Chinese For the first time in history, administrative means were used to regulate writing products on a large scale.
The Qin Dynasty used the compiled Xiaozhuan script to unify the national writing system, which not only basically eliminated the phenomenon of different writing styles in various places, but also greatly changed the situation of many different styles of ancient writing. In the history of Chinese writing development has important significance.