1, seal script, that is, pictographic characters; The font before official script. Seal script is divided into big seal script and small seal script. Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Jin Wen, Wen Shu, Shi Guwen, Xiao Zhuan is a masterpiece of calligraphy by Li Si, the prime minister of Qin State. It is also the font used by Qin Shihuang to implement the same book.
2. Official script is developed from seal script. Official script is to simplify seal script, turn circle into square and arc into straight. The horizontal (left-right) potential of Li character is changed to vertical potential to form a square, and the strokes contract the vertical potential to strengthen the horizontal potential.
3, cursive script, there are broad and narrow sense. In a broad sense, regardless of the age, all scribbled words are regarded as cursive. Narrow sense, that is, as a specific font, was formed in the Han Dynasty? It evolved on the basis of official script in order to write simply.
Running script is a kind of calligraphy, which is divided into running script and running script. It is developed and originated on the basis of regular script, and it is a font between regular script and cursive script, which is produced to make up for the slow writing speed of regular script and the illegibility of cursive script.
5, regular script, word name, also known as regular script, regular script, regular script, official script. It gradually evolved from official script, becoming more simplified and more horizontal and vertical. The book Ci Hai is interpreted as "square in shape and straight in brushwork, which can be used as a model". This kind of Chinese character has the correct font and is a modern popular handwritten orthographic Chinese character.