Cao Zhang, one of the traditional calligraphy styles, is an early cursive script, which began in the Qin and Han Dynasties and evolved from a cursive official script to a standard cursive script. Cao Zhang is the predecessor of Today's Grass, which was produced at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and was changed by Cao Zhang.
As Li Zhimin said: "Close to the pool, consider the reason, get the heart from things, realize the image, and then enter the beauty of cursive script." The main difference from Modern Grass is that it retains the brushwork of official script, and the upper and lower characters are independent and basically unconnected.
Cao Zhang is a calligraphy style that evolved from official script to cursive script. It belongs to a link in the process from the embryonic stage to the standardization of cursive script.
Cao Zhang's pen and its structural features are as follows:
First, the horizontal painting of the first pen and the last pen often has the style of "silkworm head and goose tail" in official script, which is to the right, but not all, or it is not important.
Second, the right oblique stroke of the pen is dignified and long, which drives the whole glyph to be steep and soft.
Third, the heavy pen is mostly at the end of the word, and the end is relatively calm.
Fourthly, the linking between Chinese character components is common, especially the frequent contact between strokes, which are widely used. The strokes are mostly circular, and the pitch is mutual, echoing each other, and the points written separately are also very strong.
Five, the left and right structures can not be connected, generally not connected, words are not connected intermittently.
6. Some of Cao Zhang's characters are similar to running script, some are similar to cursive script, and a few figures are similar to regular script.
Seven, go flat, like the word "B", turn right and bend to the hook.