Cursive script began in the early Han Dynasty. At that time, it was "Cao Li", that is, scribbled official script, which gradually developed into a kind of "Cao Zhang" with artistic value.
Before the Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhi changed "Cao Zhang" to "modern grass", and the character style was formed in one stroke. In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Xu and Huai Su developed into "weeds", with continuous strokes and changeable glyphs.
The characteristics of cursive script:
1, stippling:
One of the main characteristics of cursive script is to simplify the complex and draw pictures with dots. Cursive writing is fast, mainly because of simplification and Lian Bi. So now cursive stippling is simplified and strokes are reduced. This phenomenon is quite common. Generally, more than two strokes are used for one stroke, and strokes between adjacent words can be borrowed.
2. Structural activities:
Ou Yangxun concluded that there are "thirty-six laws" for the structure of regular script, but we haven't found a specific rule for the structure of cursive script, because the structure of cursive script is flexible and changeable, and it is difficult to stipulate it with a unified standard.
3. There are many rules:
Compared with other books, cursive script is more dynamic, vivid and diverse in composition. On the one hand, word spacing and row spacing try to avoid average monotony, break local balance and break the general pattern of horizontal rows and vertical columns.
Especially for big grass and weeds, it is sometimes impenetrable, sometimes sparse, with coherent momentum and continuous blood, seeking unity in change, giving people the beauty of swaying and magnificent sports.