Evolution of Japanese characters: Japanese characters are typical hieroglyphics, which were drawn by the ancients according to the shape of the sun when they saw the sun in the sky. The word "Japanese" originally meant to draw a circle with a little in the middle.
The mouth outside the word "sun" is the outer circle of the sun, and the middle point is the sun. Later, it gradually evolved into the word "day" today, that is, the midpoint became horizontal and the excircle became square. The Japanese word originally meant the sun, and later it was extended to daytime. The explanation of Japanese characters in Shuo Wen Jie Zi is that the sun is the essence of the sun. From the first, pictographic.
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Lishu is a Chinese font, including Qin Lishu and Han Li. It is generally believed that it is developed from seal script, with wide and flat font, long horizontal painting and short vertical painting, and pays attention to "swallow tail of silkworm head" and "twists and turns".
According to the unearthed bamboo slips, official script originated in Qin Dynasty, and Cheng Miao was also called official script. Han Li reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty, inherited the tradition of seal script, and opened the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, which had a great influence on later calligraphy. The calligraphy circle is known as "Tang Kai of Han Li".