Lishu is a Chinese font, including Qin Lishu and Han Li. It is generally believed that it is developed from seal script, with wide and flat font, long horizontal painting and short vertical painting, and pays attention to "swallow tail of silkworm head" and "twists and turns". ?
Lishu is a Chinese font, including Qin Lishu and Han Li. It is generally believed that it is developed from seal script, with wide and flat font, long horizontal painting and short vertical painting, and pays attention to "swallow tail of silkworm head" and "twists and turns". According to the unearthed bamboo slips, official script originated in Qin Dynasty, and Cheng Miao was also called official script. Han Li reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty, inherited the tradition of seal script, and opened the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, which had a great influence on later calligraphy. The calligraphy circle called it "Tang Kai of Han Li".
Regarding the definition of official script, Mr. Wu said in the article "Looking at the Early Official Script of Qin and Han Dynasties from the Unearthed Silk Slips of Qin Bamboo Slips": "It can be explained by the original meaning of this word. Shuo Wen Jie Zi explains that Li means "attachment", while The Biography of Feng Yi in the Later Han Dynasty teaches it as "genus", which has been used up to now and has the word "cong" in modern Chinese.
Official script is also called "official script" and "ancient script", which is based on seal script. Official script is a font based on seal script to meet the needs of convenient writing. From the perspective of the history of calligraphy style, official script is a major turning point in the evolution of calligraphy style, and also a great progress in the history of calligraphy in China.
Lishu is characterized by a slightly wide and flat writing effect, a long horizontal painting, a short vertical painting, and a rectangular shape, with emphasis on "silkworm head and goose tail" and "twists and turns". Its use of pen, get rid of the monotonous bondage of seal script pen, showing a clear wave, simple and strong, natural and unrestrained style characteristics.