It is correct to say that among the various styles of seal script, official script and regular script, running script is the most practical, easiest to write and the most popular.
Xingshu is a general term for calligraphy, which is divided into two types: Xingkai and Xingcao. It was developed on the basis of regular script and is a font between regular script and cursive script. It was created to make up for the slow writing speed of regular script and the difficulty of identifying cursive script. "Xing" means "walking", so it is not as sloppy as cursive script, nor as straight as regular script.
Essentially, it is the cursiveization of regular script or the regularization of cursive script. Those with more regular script than cursive script are called "Xing Kai", and those with more cursive script than regular script are called "Xing Cao". Running script has high practicality and artistry, while regular script is a text symbol, which is highly practical and requires skill. In comparison, cursive script has high artistic quality, but its practicality is relatively insufficient.
Cursive script
Cursive script is a font of Chinese characters, which has two meanings: broad and narrow. Broadly speaking, regardless of age, all scrawled words are counted as cursive writing. In a narrow sense, that is, as a specific font, it was formed in the Han Dynasty and evolved on the basis of official script for the convenience of writing. Starting around the Eastern Jin Dynasty, in order to distinguish it from the new cursive script at that time.
The cursive script of the Han Dynasty is called Zhangcao. The new cursive script is relatively called Jincao, which is divided into big grass (also called crazy grass) and small grass. It feels beautiful in the madness. As Li Zhimin said: "Be present in the pond, learn from the principles, learn from things, get from the heart, understand from the image, and then enter the wonderful realm of cursive script.
Regular script
Regular script, A type of Chinese character script, also called regular script, regular script, and regular script. It gradually evolved from the official script and became more simplified, with horizontal and vertical lines. The book "Cihai" explains that it has a "square shape, straight strokes, and can be used as a script." "Serve as a model." This kind of Chinese character font is correct and is the modern traditional handwritten Chinese character.
Regular script is also a kind of official name. "New Book of Tang·Hundred Officials 2" is written in Zhongshu Provincial History Museum There are twenty people in regular script and eighteen people in regular script who write the history of the country. As an official name, regular script is also called a regular script hand. They are in charge of writing and writing, and they are co-located in the same organization, but the specific division of labor is different. 2. The regular calligrapher was named Liuwaixunpinguan. There was no regular calligrapher in the Song Dynasty, but it was called regular script.