Who is the founder of running script?

Liu Desheng.

Liu Desheng, a native of Yingchuan (now Yuzhou City), was a famous calligrapher during the Huan and Ling Dynasties in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The founder of running script calligraphy, because he created a "running script" font between regular script and cursive script, was also called "the originator of running script" by later generations.

Although Desheng's running script calligraphy was created in the first generation, its handwriting is beautiful, graceful and unpretentious. The strokes are concise, the book is thick and fast, and it is listed as a "wonderful flower" by later generations.

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Run script function:

Big and small. That is, each word presents a different size, and there is a pen-to-pen connection of a word. The connection between words is both true and intentional, and there is a connection between them.

The combination of recovery and release. Generally short-term collection, long-term release; Back and front, side and front; Most of them are left hand, right hand, upper right hand and lower left hand, but they can also be converted to each other. Left-handed and right-handed, top-handed and bottom-handed are not excluded.

Dense and decent. Generally, it is dense on the top and sparse on the bottom, dense on the left and sparse on the right, and dense on the inside and sparse on the outside. The middle palace is compact, the white space in the box is as small as possible, and the white space of the circled strokes is as small as possible. On the layout, the word spacing is tight, the line spacing is wide, vigorous and powerful, and the colors are bright.

Light and shade blend together. Running script writing should be easy, lively and fast, and master the combination of illness and stagnation, movement and static. The ink color arrangement should be strong at the beginning and dry at the end. The lines are long and thin, short and thick, moderate in thickness and alternating in depth. It's similar to cursive, but it's not so grassy.

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