Small popular science of calligraphy knowledge? ? ? Liye Qin bamboo slips

More than 36,000 Liye Qin bamboo slips were found in the well 1 in Longshan County, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province from June to July, 2002. The main content is the archives of Ganling County, Dongting County, Qin Province, including ancestral agricultural bamboo slips, place name mileage bamboo slips, household registration bamboo slips and so on. The significance of the discovery of Liye bamboo slips in Qin Dynasty is considered by academic circles to be another major archaeological discovery in Qin Dynasty after the Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Qin Dynasty, and its research results will greatly fill the lack of historical materials. Its importance lies in that it will greatly change and enrich people's original knowledge structure. In a sense, Liye Qin bamboo slips are as important to Qin history as Oracle bone inscriptions are to Shang history research, which will fundamentally change the face of Qin history research.

Calligraphy research

Li Jiahao, a professor of Chinese Department in Peking University, pointed out that most of the characters and fonts in Liye Qin Bamboo Slips belong to Qin Li, which evolved from Xiao Zhuan, similar to Sleeping Tiger Bamboo Slips in Longgang, Hubei. The professor said that after Qin unified China, characters were written in the same language, and seal script was used all over the country. However, there are exceptions on some occasions. For example, in order to pursue practicality, convenience and conciseness, official documents are written in Li Qin.

Guo Weimin, deputy director of Hunan Institute of Archaeology, said that a large number of bamboo slips found in Liye Qin Bamboo Slips include ancient seal script, ancient official script and official script with regular script in the middle. Characters are written in pen and ink, with neat handwriting and smooth brushwork; Bamboo slips have different fonts and postures.

Zhang Chunlong, an ancient philologist, thinks that the characters in Liye Qin bamboo slips are centered, with vigorous brushwork and bright artistic conception. Many strokes in Qin bamboo slips, especially the left, right, vertical and dotted strokes, are very beautiful. There are so many bamboo slips that it is of great significance to study the evolution of Biography and Li Shu.