Running script font is a font between regular script and cursive script. Running script font is produced to make up for the defects of slow writing speed of regular script and illegible cursive script.
"Go" means "go", so it is not as scribbled as cursive script, nor as straight as regular script. Whether it is cursive or cursive in essence. Those with more patterns than grass patterns are called "running patterns", and those with more grass patterns are called "running grass".
Running script font is one of the six major fonts, namely seal script font, official script font, cursive script font, regular script font, running script font and horse script font. The first five fonts were produced in ancient times, and Ma Shu fonts were independently created by contemporary calligrapher Ma Yongan. Running script font is a writing style after regular script, which came into being in Han Dynasty.
Running script reached its peak when Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty matured, and it only appeared in about two thousand years. Zhang Huaiguan, a theorist in the Tang Dynasty, said in Shu Duan that "calligraphers were created by Liu Desheng in Yingchuan, the later Han Dynasty, that is, the small mistakes in the correct book and the simple work are called running books." Liu Desheng changed the regular script and created the running script, so he was called "the master of running script". Running script is more important than regular script.
The development of running script writing;
Running script is a writing style between regular script and cursive script, which appeared in the late Western Han Dynasty and the early Eastern Han Dynasty. The name of the running script first appeared in Wei Heng's Four Books in the Western Jin Dynasty: Zhong (Yao) and Hu (Zhao) all studied calligraphy under Zhang Huaiguan's Shu Duan in the Tang Dynasty: "The calligrapher is like Liu Desheng.
That is, the official book is small and fake, and the service is simple and popular, so it is called a running account. "Lun Heng" also said: "Fu Shu is neither grass nor true, which is a matter of Ji Meng. Those who are both true are called true, and those who bring grass are called grass. " Feng Fang has a more vivid description in Ji Shu: "Write without stopping, write without carving, turn gently and press gently, like running water, without interruption, and last forever."
Because of its unique artistic expression and wide practicability, running script has been favored and widely circulated since its birth. After the golden period of Wei and Jin Dynasties and the development period of Tang Dynasty, running script reached a new peak in Song Dynasty and gradually occupied the mainstream position in various calligraphy styles.