The shortage of silk materials as writing materials is that they are expensive and difficult to popularize.
Silk script refers to the characters written on silk. The original meaning of silk is white silk fabric, that is, the original silk fabric. At the latest in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, silk has generally referred to all silk fabrics. At that time, silk was widely used, among which, as a writing material, bamboo and silk were often used together, and silk was one of the precious ones. However, because silk is much more expensive than bamboo slips, its use should be limited to dignitaries.
Artistic features of silk books:
As far as the calligraphy art of silk books is concerned, its ranking is generally neat, the spacing is basically the same, and it is natural and unrestrained while striving for standardization and neatness. Its font is flat and stable, balanced and symmetrical, correct and serious, between Zhuanli and Zhuanli. Its brushwork is smooth and smooth, with twists and turns, and the music is attractive, showing its beauty in the change of thickness, and showing its rhyme in the frustration of stippling, fully demonstrating the author's deliberate pursuit of artistic writing.