1, different kinds
Running script is a form of China's calligraphy, and it belongs to running script.
2. Different styles
Clear lines and neat strokes. Running scripts are mostly cursive, which are relatively smooth and have random strokes.
3. Different uses
Running script pays more attention to practicality and is less artistic. Running script pays more attention to artistry and is less practical.
Running script is developed on the basis of official script, between regular script and cursive script, in order to make up for the slow writing speed of regular script and the difficulty in recognizing cursive script. "Go" means "go". Not as scrawled as cursive script, nor as straight as regular script. If there are more script methods than script methods, it is called "running script", and if there are more script methods, it is called "running script".
Running script appeared at the same time as eight-part essay, and its form was very close to eight-part essay and later official script. This is equivalent to changing (chapter) cursive script from official script to other branches derived from "regular script". In addition to official script, the "regular script" in Huanling period was followed by "eight-part essay", so people think that running script is another branch of "eight-part essay".
In fact, it is the same as other calligraphy styles. It was originally founded as a general mass writer. As long as it is written in other calligraphy, it becomes a running script without official style. It can be seen everywhere in bamboo slips unearthed at the end of Han Dynasty. At the end of Han dynasty, running script was not widely used. It was not until the appearance of Wang Xizhi in Jin Dynasty that it became popular.
Extended data:
Running script is a kind of calligraphy between regular script and cursive script, which appeared in the late 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.
In the Ming Dynasty, Feng Fang had a more vivid description in Ji Shu: "Write without stopping, write without engraving, gently turn and press again, like running water, without interruption, for business will last forever." Because of its unique artistic expression and wide practicability, running script has been favored and widely circulated since its birth.
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