How to write Li's official script: horizontal, vertical, left, na, horizontal left/horizontal hook, vertical hook, horizontal.
Clerical script is a font of Chinese characters, including Qin Li, Han Li, etc. It is generally believed to be developed from seal script. The fonts are mostly wide and flat, with long horizontal strokes and short vertical strokes. They pay attention to the "silkworm head and swallow tail" ", "Twists and turns." According to the unearthed slips, official script was founded in the Qin Dynasty. It is said that Cheng Miao was the official. Han official script reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It inherited the tradition of seal script at the top and opened up the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. It has a considerable influence on later calligraphy, and the calligraphy world It is known as "Han Li Tang Kai".
Structural Features
1. The font is flat and square. Li characters are spread out on the left and right, contrary to the normal situation of seal characters taking the vertical direction, and are instead taken horizontally (left and right), resulting in a flat and square font. , the strokes shrink the vertical strokes and strengthen the horizontal expansion.
2. Starting the pen with a silkworm head and closing it with a swallow tail. This is a typical feature of the pen used in official script. In particular, the horizontal and vertical strokes of the main strokes in official script are almost all made using this method. The so-called "writing silkworm head" means that in the process of using the pen to hide the (reverse) edge of the pen, the outline of the strokes formed during the starting process is written into a shape similar to that of a silkworm's head. "Closing the pen swallowtail" means pressing the pen at the end of the pen and then lifting the pen diagonally to the upper right to strike.
3. Turn circles into squares and arcs into straight lines. These are the two basic ways to simplify seal script in official script. However, if you don't understand the circle of seal script, it will be difficult to master the square of official script. Because the straight drawings or square folds in the official brush all contain the arc of the seal characters, the straightness of the official brush often has obvious fluctuations and is full of vitality. In fact, the meaning of official script is based on the movement of strokes.
4. Change the drawing into dots and change the connection into breaks. We know that dots are not needed in seal characters. Even if dots are used, they are just round dots. However, the dots in official scripts have become independent and no longer attached to paintings, and the dot methods have become increasingly rich, including flat dots, vertical dots, left and right dots, three connected dots (next to water), four connected dots (next to fire), etc.
In addition, the official script also breaks up the many circling and continuous strokes in the seal characters, which opens the door to the convenience of writing. Later, the regular script further developed this method, allowing the pen and the pen to move freely. There are traces of connection between them, and even the connection between writing and meaning is broken.
5. Strengthen the changes in the thickness of the strokes. When writing seal script, the vertical strokes of the pen are required to leave no traces, while the official script intentionally emphasizes the stroke movement, resulting in significant thickness and inheritance changes in the stroke trajectories. The three processes of moving and collecting the pen are clearly reflected. This is very similar to the later regular script.