There are four main categories of Chinese fonts: block script, cursive script, seal script and official script. Oracle bone script, bell and drum script and other types are not popular now.
There are many other art fonts, but they are all variations of the main fonts, Jia (oracle bone inscriptions), Jin (Zhongding inscriptions), Zhuan (big seal, small seal), Li (official script), Cao (cursive script), Kai (regular script), and Xing (running script).
1. Official script font
The full name is "Stele of Ritual Utensils Built by Han Yuan, Prime Minister of Han Dynasty and Lu", also known as "Stele of Confucius Temple in Hanming Mansion", also known as "Stele of Ritual Utensils Built by Han Yuan, Prime Minister of Han Dynasty", also known as "Stele of Confucius Temple in Han Ming Mansion". , "Han Yuan Monument" and so on. Engraved in the second year of Han Yongshou (156), official script. The length is 227.2 cm and the width is 102.4 cm. Hidden in the Confucius Temple in Qufu, Shandong Province. No amount. The engravings on all four sides are all in official script. The stele has sixteen lines and thirty-six characters, and nine people including Han Yuan have named it after the text. There are inscriptions on the underside of the stele and on both sides.
2. Xingkai font
Xingkai is a regular script similar to running script. "Jin Shi Lin·Introduction": "If the regular script is like the two kings' calligraphy, it is almost nine out of ten. It is also like the "Holy Teaching", "Xing Fu", and "Confucius Temple Stele" collected by monk Huairen and others." Wang Shizhen of the Qing Dynasty's "Chibei Occasion·Talk about Art Three·Zhao Songxue's Collection of Du Poems": "Zhao Songxue's handwritten poems on Du, with Zhu silk columns and regular script."
"The Biography of Heroes of Sons and Daughters" No. Chapter 40: "The master took the name post over and saw that the letter underneath was Zhang Xubaizhai's inch paper, with tiny running script written on it."
3. Running script font
p>The Preface to Orchid Pavilion, written in running script by Wang Xizhi, was written with pride when he was 51 years old by General Wang Xizhi of the Right Army of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It embodies his lament about human life and death, as well as the shortcomings and changes of human beings.
Under the lofty mountains, by the edge of lush forests and bamboos, drunk and splashing with ink, he composed prefaces for everyone's poems. The articles were fresh and beautiful, and the calligraphy was vigorous and elegant. It has been regarded as the best in the book circles of all dynasties. Mi Fu, a great calligrapher in the Song Dynasty, called it "the first calligraphy in Chinese running script".
Calligraphy fonts can be divided into five major categories: running script fonts, cursive script fonts, official script fonts, seal script fonts and regular script fonts. Each major category is subdivided into several smaller categories, such as seal script and regular script fonts. It is divided into large seal script and small seal script, and regular script can be divided into Wei stele script, Tang script script and so on.