The origin of official script: Qin Dynasty.
official script, a font of Chinese characters, includes Qin Li, han li, etc. Generally speaking, it is developed from seal script, and its font is wide and flat, with long horizontal drawing and short vertical drawing, and it pays attention to "swallow tail of silkworm head" and "twists and turns". According to the unearthed bamboo slips, Lishu was founded in the Qin Dynasty, and it is said that Cheng Miao was a Li, and han li reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
inheriting the tradition of seal script, and opening the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, it has a great influence on later calligraphy, and the calligraphy circle is known as "han li Tang Kai". Regarding the definition of official script, Mr. Wu Botao said in an article entitled "Looking at the Early Official Script of Qin and Han Dynasties from the Unearthed Silk Slips of Qin Bamboo Slips" that it can be explained by the original meaning of this word.
in Shuo Wen Jie Zi, the meaning of explaining Li is attachment, while in The Biography of Feng Yi in the Later Han Dynasty, it is taught to belong. This meaning is still used today, and there is a word subordinate in modern Chinese. "Biography of Wei Heng in the Book of Jin", "Preface of Explaining Words" and paragraph notes also think that official script is beyond the reach of Sasuke Zhuan, so official script is an auxiliary font of Zhuan Zhuan.
Lishu is a common solemn font in Chinese characters, with slightly wide and flat writing effect, long horizontal painting and short straight painting, and paying 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. The calligraphy circle is known as "han li Tang Kai". It is also said that Lishu originated in the Warring States Period.
structural features:
1. The left and right sides of the square glyph are divided into two parts: the vertical trend of Li characters is reversed, and the horizontal trend is changed, resulting in the square glyph, and the strokes contract the vertical trend and strengthen the horizontal trend.
2. Swallowtail is a typical feature of the pen used in official script, especially in the official script, which is almost always used for horizontal and horizontal painting. The so-called "silkworm head" means that in the process of using a pen to hide (reverse) the front, at the same time, the stroke shape formed in the process of starting a pen is written into a shape similar to that of a silkworm head. "Swallowtail", that is, press the pen at the pen-receiving place, and then pick the pen obliquely to the upper right.
3. Turning a circle into a square and an arc into a straight line are two basic ways to simplify seal script. However, if you don't understand the circle of seal script, it is not easy to master the side of official script. Because the straight painting or square folding in the official script all contain the arc potential of seal characters, the straightness of the official script often has obvious fluctuation and is full of vitality. In fact, the brushwork of official script is based on the way of stroke movement.