The characteristics of seal script:
The style of standard seal script is neat arrangement, round strokes, even and long lines, showing a solemn and beautiful style.
Compared with Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jinwen, it has some basic characteristics: its shape is slender, compact and drawn downwards, which constitutes the visual illusion that the upper part is dense and the lower part is sparse, which is also related to the top-down layout. Symmetry of lines No matter how long the stippling is, the strokes are even in thickness.
This kind of brush with even strength and speed gives people a pure and simple aesthetic feeling. In addition, the font structure tends to be simple and fixed, and the chapter layout of Xiao Zhuan calligraphy can form a sequence of vertical and horizontal lines. The round pen is different from the round pen, which is represented by Qin carved stone; Fang Bi, represented by the Imperial edict of Qin Dynasty, is a popular style in Qin Zhuan.
The traditional writing method of YueFangzheng official script
Yue is short for Han Medical University.
Official script is developed from seal script. Official script is to simplify seal script, turn circle into square and arc into straight.
The structural features of Lishu are: the square is spread from left to right, the silkworm head is dovetail, the circle is square, the arc is straight, the painting is point-to-point, and the thickness is changing.
Extended data:
seal character
After Qin Shihuang unified China, Xiao Zhuan became the official unified script.
Small seal script is slender, symmetrical, even in strokes, dignified and beautiful. Since the Qin Dynasty, calligraphers in all previous dynasties have taken Qin Zhuan as the standard and slender vertical as their physical features.
Li is a model of seal script writers in Tang Dynasty.
Since the Tang Dynasty, there have been Xu Xuan in the Southern Tang Dynasty, Zhang Qianzhong and Yu Jingshi in the Song Dynasty. There were Zhao Mengfu, Zhou and Wu Sui in Yuan Dynasty, all of whom were famous for their seal script.
In the Ming Dynasty, Xu Lin enjoyed a high reputation in the contemporary era. Since the mid-Qing Dynasty, Wang Shu, Ding Jing, Hong,, and even modern Luo Zhenyu, Zhang Linbing, and Wang Zhai have all adopted the scale of "Li Er" (Li Si, Li Yangbing)-writing in the middle, collecting more pens, stopping writing evenly, paying attention to symmetry, and having a square font.
Although critics praised these famous seal writers for "staying away from the pre-Qin Dynasty" and "sentient participation in Zhong Ding", their works were more about expression-writing a few words with a pen, but they failed to break through the barriers of the former sages.
Xiao Man Tui 'an, an old man, thinks that Xiao Zhuan "must be able to write well and write flat to be a good character", which can be described as a hyphenation feature of seal script.
Therefore, when learning seal script, it is appropriate to use a one-and-a-half-word script.
In addition, the potential of glyphs should be considered. Generally speaking, gesture is an important part of font vividness. As far as the character potential of seal script is concerned, it is necessary to pursue dignity and elegance, and the proportion of font height and the ratio of font to vertical foot length must conform to certain restraint.
In this way, we can stretch our ups and downs and look forward to it within a word, between words. Combining the central pen, oblique side combination, multi-side combination, hanging needle and hanging dew combination, and the decorative meaning of overlapping strokes can show a new look of seal script.
official script
Official script is also called "official character" and "ancient book". It is a font produced on the basis of seal script to meet the needs of convenient writing.
The seal script is simplified, and the uniform circle lines of the seal script are changed into straight strokes, which is convenient for writing. This is a font created in prison, which can be divided into "Qin Li" (also known as "Guli") and "Han Li" (also known as "Lishu"). The appearance of Lishu is a great change in ancient writing and calligraphy.
Official script is a common solemn font in Chinese characters, with a slightly flat writing effect, long horizontal drawing and short straight drawing, and pays attention to "swallow tail of silkworm head" and "twists and turns". It originated in the Qin Dynasty and reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Calligraphy is known as "Han Li Tang Kai". It is also said that official script originated in the Warring States period.
Official script is relative to seal script, and its name originated from the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The appearance of official script is another great change of China characters, which brings China's calligraphy art into a new realm, is a turning point in the development history of Chinese characters, and lays the foundation for regular script. Official script is flat, neat and exquisite.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the painting methods such as skimming, pressing and pointing were beautified as upward provocation, with different degrees of severity and artistic beauty of calligraphy. Styles also tend to be diversified, which is of great artistic appreciation value.
According to legend, Li Shu was compiled by Cheng Miao in prison at the end of Qin Dynasty, which simplified traditional Chinese characters, rounded fonts and changed strokes into straight ones. Change "Lian Bi" to "broken pen" and change from line to stroke, which is more convenient for writing. "Li Ben" is not a prisoner, but a small official, that is, a small official in charge of documents, so in ancient times, official script was called "Zuo Shu".
At the same time, cursive script, regular script and running script were derived, which laid the foundation for art.
Official script is basically evolved from seal script, mainly changing the round strokes of seal script into square folds. Because it is difficult to draw round strokes on wooden slips with pigments, the official script is written faster.
Reference link: Baidu Encyclopedia-seal script
Reference link: Baidu Encyclopedia-Lishu