Appreciation of China's Traditional Hard Pen Calligraphy Works
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The evolution of calligraphy fonts
The structural form of Chinese characters has undergone many changes. The evolution of fonts originated from simple writing, and the general trend is simplification.
The traces of books unearthed in the pre-Qin period tell us that since the Shang Dynasty, the characters have been handed down from generation to generation. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, "variant characters" were accompanied by "governors' efforts to govern", and writing in various countries became more and more localized. Qiu Xigui said: "The characters in the late Shang Dynasty and the early Zhou Dynasty, the characters in the late Spring and Autumn Period and the early Warring States Period are very similar, and it is often difficult to distinguish them. The upper limit of the Qin dynasty (country) writing era is the Spring and Autumn Period, and the content is partially repeated with the Spring and Autumn Period of the Western Zhou Dynasty. "Ancient Chinese characters in the pre-Qin period can be regarded as a separate development stage of Chinese characters.
The style of writing at that time and how people named it at that time are unknown. According to the textual research of scholars in the Han Dynasty, there are Shi Shuo Da Zhuan, Wen Shu, Wen Gu and Chess Piece (Xu Shen's Preface to Explaining Words). These names later developed into various names, such as Tadpole Book (a four-body book written by Wei Heng in the Western Jin Dynasty), and China ancient seal script (the wood of Wang Kui in the Southern Dynasties).
Such as Shu (Yu Lun Shu in Southern Dynasties). The pre-Qin books unearthed in the 20th century are called "Oracle Bone Inscriptions", "Jinwen", "Wen Tao" and "Warring States script" by philologists, or named after written materials or times. The traces of ancient books are the same, the ancient and modern names are mixed, and even the meanings are inconsistent. Even if linguists come to the road, it will take a lot of trouble.
After the abolition of the Six-country script in Qin Dynasty, Xiao Zhuan, a provincial reform of Da Zhuan, was the main body, and the popular writing method was Li Shu, which was originally popular in Qin Dynasty. In the Han dynasty, which inherited the Qin system, official script became official script. Also in the Han Dynasty, cursive script, running script and regular script appeared one after another, and the formation of these three fonts is closely related to the fonts that appeared before or at the same time. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the evolution of fonts generally ended.
The mainstream style of Chinese characters is nothing more than five structural types: seal script, official script, cursive script, running script and regular script. These five types of fonts have a long and short time from appearance to maturity. Generally speaking, seal script has a long font, official script is equivalent to cursive script, and running script and regular script are short.
Historically, seal script, official script and regular script have played the role of regular script. Cursive script and running script have always been auxiliary characters. If the development stage of calligraphy history is divided by Chinese characters, it should be marked by seal script, official script and regular script.