The entrances and exits of Lanzhou Railway Station are all written by Zhang Bangyan, who is also very prestigious in the calligraphy world and is known as the "father of bamboo slips". Standing in Lanzhou, you will find the word "Lan", the first horizontal line is the longest, but when writing Chinese characters, the longest word "Lan" should be the last horizontal line.
In fact, the reason why the word "Lan" in Lanzhou is long and short is mainly because after liberation, many fonts have been standardized into simplified characters, including the word "Lan" in Lanzhou, which is very different from the traditional writing in history. Therefore, calligraphers who have just changed from traditional Chinese characters to simplified Chinese characters will write many "non-standard" and "non-unified" writing forms at this time, just like the languages of the six countries were not unified at that time.
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The Origin of Zhang Bangyan and Bamboo Slips Calligraphy;
In 1980s and 1990s, the creation and research of bamboo slips calligraphy entered a new stage of development. Calligraphers in Gansu have also made achievements in this respect. Zhang Bangyan, Zhao Zheng, Xu Zufan and others became the representatives of contemporary Han bamboo slips calligraphy research and creation.
Gansu calligraphers are more conscious of the research and acquisition of local calligraphy resources, and learning and acquiring bamboo slips calligraphy has become a common consciousness in Gansu calligraphy circles, forming a group of teams keen on bamboo slips calligraphy creation and combining the old with the young. From the perspective of calligraphy style, there are pure Qin bamboo slips, Han bamboo slips official script, ancient cursive script, silk script and so on. As well as Lishu and Cao Zhang, they absorbed the calligraphy elements of bamboo slips to create.
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