What are the font characteristics of running script?

Running script is the rapid writing of regular script, which is said to have started at the end of Han Dynasty. There is no neat regular script, and there is no cursive script. The most famous masterpiece is Preface to Lanting written by Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Predecessors described it as "a dragon descending from heaven, a tiger lying in a phoenix pavilion" and praised it as "the best running script in the world". Tang Yan Zhenqing's book "Sacrificing a Nephew" is very bold, and the ancients rated it as "the second running script in the world". What are the font characteristics of running script?

1. The characteristics of the running script font are straight, smooth and flowing. When writing running script, the main writing method of stippling is that the front is exposed to the paper, the font is flat rather than flat, and the more complicated strokes become simpler and omitted. Use hooks, picks and lines to strengthen the echo between stippling, and use round strokes instead of square folding strokes.

2. Running script is a font between regular script and cursive script. The appearance of running script makes up for the defects of slow writing speed of regular script and low recognition of cursive script. Running script is different from official script, regular script and cursive script in writing, and it is more like a variant of regular script in writing.

3. Running script originated in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, but changed after it was introduced into Wei Chu. Zhong Yao and Hu Zhao mainly run scripts. Later, Wang Xizhi's The First Running Script in the World, Preface to Lanting, Wang Xianzhi's Duck Head Pill Post, Yan Zhenqing's The Second Running Script in the World, Su Shi's The Third Running Script in the World and Cold Food Post are all representative works of running scripts.

There are so many font features in running script.