official script
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".
Regarding the definition of official script, Mr. Wu said in the article "Looking at the Early Official Script of Qin and Han Dynasties from the Unearthed Silk Slips of Qin Bamboo Slips": "It can be explained by the original meaning of this word.
Shuo Wen Jie Zi explains that Li means "attachment", while The Biography of Feng Yi in the Later Han Dynasty teaches it as "genus", which has been used up to now and has the word "cong" in modern Chinese. Wei Hengzhuan in the Book of Jin, Shuo Wen Jie Zi Preface and paragraph notes all think that official script is inferior to Sasuke's seal script, so official script is the auxiliary font of Xiao's seal script. "
Knowledge expansion:
Li Bian is an important calligraphy cultural event in the history of calligraphy in China. The internal motivation of the official change is to adapt to the requirements of the social development at that time for the application of characters. "Li change is mainly manifested in two aspects: the change of glyph structure is not only the transformation of regular script glyph structure, but also the main direction of this transformation is simplification.
The change of writing style is not only to change the original writing style of regular script, but also to be concise and convenient. The simplification of font structure and the simple flow of writing style constitute the core content of the transformation process of officialdom.
The simplification of glyph structure and writing style here is not only for the improvement of writing speed, but also for the inherent writing movement situation that is more in line with people's physiological movement track, so that official script was widely used with the political changes at the turn of Qin and Han Dynasties.