Lishu has a flat shape, and the structure of characters is mostly square corners, and the strokes are thick and thin, forming wave potential and picking method. Representative works include Zhang Qianbei and Cao De Monument.
In a broad sense, cursive script is a scribbled font. There are ancient Chinese characters and modern Chinese characters. In a narrow sense, cursive script is a writing style, characterized by a combination of strokes and a simple structure. Representative works include Zhang Xu's Thousand-Character Works and Huai Su's Autobiographical Notes.
Regular script can be used as a French model for learning Chinese characters, so it is called regular script. Regular script is a writing style based on Han Li, also known as "official script" and "real script". Regular script evolved from Han Li, so it is also called "regular script" in history. In the Three Kingdoms period, Zhong Wei had Wang Jinxi, and the font was further standardized, making regular script a completely independent font. Compared with official script, regular script has straighter lines and stronger font stereotypes. Specifically, Han Li's strokes are mostly flat and spread outward, while regular script strokes are rectangular and concentrated inward. Han Li's pens are mostly wavy, and the thickness changes greatly, while regular script pens are stable or hard to fold, and the thickness changes relatively little. Regular script has strict rules and very standardized writing forms, such as paying attention to "eight laws of ancient characters" Representative works include Yan Zhenqing's Duota, Oriental Painting Praise Monument, Liu Gongquan's Mysterious Tower, Shence Army Monument and so on.
Running script is a writing style between cursive and regular script, and it is also the most commonly used one in daily life, so it can be said to be cursive or cursive. Zhang Huaiguan of the Tang Dynasty said: "This is a kind of running script." . In the process of writing, the movement of brush strokes is obvious in various forms of stippling. This movement of brush strokes often leaves traces of each other between stippling and between words, which is delicate and delicate. The most famous masterpiece is Preface to Lanting written by Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.