The writing methods of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten in oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, small seal script, official script, regular script and running script are as follows:
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It has a history of more than 3,000 years from the development of oracle bone inscriptions to today's Chinese characters. The development of writing has gone through several stages such as bronze inscriptions, large seal script, small seal script, official script, cursive script, regular script, and running script. The circulation time of these types of fonts is sometimes not clearly divided before and after, but in parallel or intersecting.
Bronze inscriptions, also known as bell and tripod inscriptions and inscriptions, are characters engraved on bronze vessels. It began to appear on bronzes in the late Shang Dynasty and developed in the Western Zhou Dynasty.
In general, the inscriptions on bronzes in the late Shang Dynasty did not exceed 50 words, and the inscriptions on Mao Gong's tripod in the Western Zhou Dynasty were as long as 497 words. The shape and structure of bronze inscriptions are very similar to oracle bone inscriptions, which are basically the same glyph.
In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the economy and culture developed vigorously, and the application of writing became more and more widespread. The ancient script of the Six Kingdoms is also a kind of "seal script", and in terms of glyphs it has a closer relationship with the bronze inscriptions of the Western Zhou Dynasty than the characters of the Qin Dynasty. The meaning of seal script is to lengthen the strokes into a soft and beautified long line.
In 221 BC, Qin Shihuang unified China, unified characters, currency, weights and measures nationwide, and stipulated standard glyphs that could be used throughout the country. Let the whole country write in their simplified font, which is Xiaozhuan.
Xiaozhuan was gradually replaced by the more convenient and simplified official script. By the Han Dynasty, Xiaozhuan became the official writing style nationwide. The Han Dynasty steles handed down in the contemporary era are written in this kind of official script.
Official script later evolved into cursive script. This is a fast writing style of official script. It developed into an independent font and began around the Eastern Han Dynasty. At the same time as cursive script, regular script also emerged, also known as "zhengshu" or "real script". It matured in the Eastern Han Dynasty and became popular in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.
The last font that appeared in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was running script, which basically looks like regular script and can be said to be a branch of regular script. Regular script, running script and cursive script have been handed down to this day.
Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia - History of Chinese Writing