The five main fonts in Chinese characters are: seal script, official script, cursive script, regular script and running script. Chinese characters are one of the oldest characters in the world, with a history of over 6000 years.
Chinese characters, also known as Chinese characters and Chinese characters, are also called square characters, which are the recording symbols of Chinese and belong to morpheme syllables of ideographic characters. One of the oldest characters in the world has a history of more than 6000 years. In form, it gradually changes from graphics to strokes, pictographs to symbols, and complex to simple; In the principle of word formation, from ideographic, ideographic to phonological. As the basis of China's 5,000-year history of civilization, the formation of Chinese characters has gone through the transformation process of Oracle Bone Inscriptions-bronze inscription-seal script-official script-cursive script-regular script-running script. According to the process from complexity to simplicity, people have evolved into five main calligraphy fonts: seal script-official script-cursive script-regular script-running script.
1, Xiao Zhuan: After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he ordered Prime Minister Li Si to implement the policy of "homonym" and unify the national characters. Lisi abolished all kinds of writing forms different from those of Qin State in other six countries, simplified the big seal script used by Qin State, and integrated and standardized it with the simplicity and customs of Ming Dynasty characters, forming a unified writing format-small seal script.
2. Lishu: Lishu began in Qin Dynasty, matured and was widely used in Han and Wei Dynasties. It is called "official book" and "ancient book". Official script was formed on the basis of Xiao Zhuan. Because of the complexity of seal script writing, people changed the flat and round lines of seal script into flat, vertical and square strokes to improve the writing speed and facilitate popularization.
Cursive script: Cursive script originated in Han Dynasty, including Cao Zhang, Jincao and Kuangcao. Cursive script evolved from official script. When writing, the structure is simple without losing the outline, which reduces the regularity of official script and makes the strokes unrestrained. After the Tang Dynasty, cursive script gradually became an art of calligraphy. In particular, the emergence of weeds has greatly reduced the role of cursive script itself in transmitting information, and it is more regarded as a work of art.
4, regular script: also known as regular script, real book. Evolved from official script, the font is more simplified and the font is changed from flat to square. The explanation in Ci Hai is that the font is square, the strokes are straight and neat, and it is a new book style based on the eight-part script (see official script) at the end of Han Dynasty. During the Three Kingdoms period, this kind of calligraphy spread all over the country, and Wei Chu and Zhong You were the ancestors of real books. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the original works have made new development in calligraphy style, such as the original works in Zhi Yong's "Thousand Words True Grass" and Ou Yangxun's "Jiuchenggong Liquan Ming". Real books have been used as orthography since then.
5. Running script: Running script is a combination of regular script and cursive script. When writing, it makes up for the ambiguity of cursive script and the slow speed of regular script.