History of official script development:
Official script is a kind of font with clear starting and ending, and it is called the seal script of Yanbian. Because official script originated from the scribbled writing of seal script, the two scripts have a long existence period from the late Warring States to the middle and late Western Han Dynasty.
Transforming a scribe into a scribe is a revolutionary change in the development of Chinese characters, completely liberating Chinese characters from pictographic meanings. After the Confucian classics were transformed into ancient Chinese characters, Chinese characters entered the present writing stage, which promoted the continuous development and perfection of the Chinese character system and opened a new chapter in the development of Chinese characters. This change is of epoch-making significance in the history of China writing and calligraphy. Therefore, it is necessary to study the connotation, reasons and influence of the change of official script.
Chinese characters are the recording symbols of Chinese, and are also used in Japanese, Korean and other languages. Different from English, Russian, Hindi and Arabic, Chinese characters are typical linguistic signs. Different from monosyllabic or polysyllabic meanings of phonetic words, Chinese characters generally have monosyllabic meanings.
The earliest existing Chinese character is Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Shang Dynasty, about 1300 BC. Later, bronze inscriptions appeared, which evolved into the seal script of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and then unified the six languages in the seal script of the Qin Dynasty. Official script appeared at the end of Qin Dynasty, cursive script appeared in Western Han Dynasty, and regular script and running script appeared in Eastern Han Dynasty. The strokes of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Jinwen and Zhuanshu are tactfully continuous. When the strokes of Lishu become horizontal and vertical, they become pure square characters, which are convenient for writing and become the dividing line between ancient and modern Chinese characters.
With a history of 6,000 years, Chinese characters are the longest-used, fault-free characters in the world, and the only characters that have been inherited and preserved by the ancients. The derivatives of Chinese characters, such as Vietnamese, Xixia, Jurchen and Khitan, have died out, while Japanese, Korean/Korean only partially retain Chinese characters. Modern Chinese characters are divided into traditional characters and simplified characters.