1, tight inside and loose outside: this type of official script has a tight stroke in the middle, which is called the contraction in the middle of the font. The lines around the middle palace extend outward to varying degrees, slightly radiating, elegant and beautiful, such as Cao Quanbei.
2. Loose inside and tight outside: The word with this structure has a loose and open structure in the middle, and the strokes at the four corners have a standing feeling, and the whole word looks square and heavy. For example, Hengfangbei is one of the representative works of this structure.
3. Taking care of two categories: The so-called taking care of two categories means that this kind of official script has the characteristics of the above two categories in structure, and when combined into one, it shows a special temperament and implication that is both vigorous and elegant, such as Zhang Qianbei.
Development of official script
Li Shu, sealing the valerian also. This is a classic description of Lishu itself and its background in Wei Heng's Four Books of the Western Jin Dynasty. In fact, the regular script of seal script refers to a new relatively independent font that changed in structure and writing during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In other words, official script was born out of seal script font through "official change".
Li Bian is an important calligraphy cultural event in the history of calligraphy in China. The internal motivation of the official change is to adapt to the requirements of the social development at that time for the application of characters. "Li change is mainly manifested in two aspects: one is the change of font structure, which is not only the change of font structure of regular script, but also the main direction of this change is simplification.
The second is the change of writing style, which is not only to change the writing style of the original regular script, but also to be concise and convenient. The simplification of font structure and the simple flow of writing style constitute the core content of the transformation process of officialdom.
The simplification of glyph structure and writing style here is not only for the improvement of writing speed, but also for the inherent writing movement situation that is more in line with people's physiological movement track, so that official script was widely used with the political changes at the turn of Qin and Han Dynasties.