Four gentlemen in Chinese painting: plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum
Four outstanding figures in the early Tang Dynasty: Yang Jiong, Lu, Luo.
Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi, Su Dongpo and Huang Tingjian were four great writers in the Northern Song Dynasty.
China's four masters of regular script: Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, Ou Yangxun in Tang Dynasty and Zhao Mengfu in Yuan Dynasty.
Four skills of ancient China literati: Qin, chess, calligraphy and painting.
Eight calligraphy styles
& Qin Shu's eight styles refer to the eight writing styles of the Qin Dynasty. This is described below:
1. Dazhuan: It is fifteen characters written by Shitai Stone Biography in Zhou Xuanwang. A "paper" is named after the author. According to Duan's note, ancient prose is included (see Shuowen, p. 766).
2. Biography: In the Qin Dynasty, Lisi, Zhao Gao and Hu were saved, and they were changed according to the Great Biography, and they were written as, and learned respectively. The font is different from Da Zhuan, so it is called Xiao Zhuan. Another "Qin Zhuan" is called "Qin Zhuan" because these glyphs were created by people in the Qin Dynasty and are very popular in contemporary times.
3. Carving: This is a font carved on Jeff.
4. Worm book: It is a font written on the flag or Jeff. Because some of these fonts are like birds, some are like insects, and birds are also called feather insects, so they are called insect books.
5. Copying: It is a font written on printed matter. Printed matter has dimensions, so it must be planned before writing, which is why it is called "copying". This font is characterized by careful buckling.
6. Official books are words engraved on the plaque.
7. Obituaries are words cast on weapons. Shu is a weapon.
8. Lishu was written by Cheng Miao, a native of Du (now south of Chang 'an County, Shaanxi Province), at the behest of Qin Shihuang. This font is convenient to write, but it is not as good as the auxiliary seal script.
According to the literature knowledge in middle school Chinese textbooks, the font changes of Chinese characters are as follows: Oracle Bone Inscriptions-Jinwen (Zhong Dingwen)-Zhuanshu (Big Small Seal)-Lishu-cursive script-regular script-running script.