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Chinese characters, also known as Chinese characters and Chinese characters, are also called square characters, which are the recording symbols of Chinese and belong to morpheme syllables of ideographic characters. One of the oldest characters in the world has a history of more than 6000 years. Modern Chinese characters refer to capitalized Chinese characters, including traditional characters and simplified characters. Modern Chinese characters have developed from Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, seal script and seal script to official script, cursive script, regular script and running script.
Chinese characters were invented and improved by Han ancestors, which is an indispensable link to maintain the Han dialect area. The earliest existing Chinese characters are Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Shang Dynasty and later inscriptions on bronze in about 1300 BC, which evolved into seal script in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and then to seal script and official script in the Qin Dynasty, until the official script prevailed in the Han and Wei Dynasties, and the official script was changed to regular script at the end of the Han Dynasty. Regular script prevailed in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.
When writing Chinese characters, the direction and order of strokes, that is, the order of strokes, are relatively fixed. The basic rules are: horizontal before vertical, paving before pressing, top-down, left-right, outside before inner, outside after inner, then sealing, middle before both sides. The warning order of Chinese characters with different writing styles may be different.
In terms of fonts, the fonts of various Chinese characters can be divided into three types. The first category is Song Style and Bold Style developed from movable type printing in Song Dynasty. The second category is the fonts evolved from calligraphy, such as regular script, imitation song style, running script, official script, official script, regular script, regular script, thin gold script, pen type and so on.
The third category belongs to fine arts fonts, such as variety, tanning, amber, water column and so on. Most other fonts belong to the variants of the above three types of fonts, such as: Da Dian Song, Xiao Dian Song, Bao Song, Chang Song, Zhong Song, Yao Ti, etc. Big black, flat black, thick black, equilateral, etc. Evolved from black body; Chinese style and refined imitation of Song Dynasty evolved from file style and imitation of Song Dynasty. Beauty and black evolved from black body and song style; The body evolved from Li et al.