Calligraphy value of bamboo slips

Bamboo slips are important materials for studying Chu characters in the Warring States and calligraphy in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty. In the pre-Qin era, characters moved from application to art. At this time, calligraphy was closely related to the changes of characters, and gradually improved from the naive stage, thus establishing a special position in the history of calligraphy in China. 1975 12000 bamboo slips with ink on them were unearthed from the Qin tomb in Yunmeng Crouching Tiger Land, Hubei Province. According to the archaeological materials, the characters on some wooden signs and bamboo slips in the Warring States and Qin Dynasties tend to simplify seal script, reduce strokes, change the font into square flat and use wave pen. This is the bud of official script. In the Western Han Dynasty, the elements of Li style in calligraphy were further increased. The silk painting "Lao Zi Jia Ben" unearthed in Mawangdui, Changsha has obvious official meaning.

The fonts of bamboo slips can be divided into four categories. The first category is common in Chu bamboo slips and silk books. The font structure is the true color of Chu characters, and the calligraphy style has the characteristics of tadpole writing, which can be said to be the standard font of Chu bamboo slips and silk books. The second category originated from the manuscripts of Qilu Confucian Classics, but it has been domesticated by Chu State, forming the characteristics of "middle wealth and sharp beginning and end" with the writing of "bird and insect book", which is the original body of "ancient prose" contained in the Book of Songs, Han bamboo slips and ancient prose of Wei Santi. The third kind of pen is similar to Xiao Zhuan, close to the "ancient seal", which should be the true face of Qi Lu's Confucian classics during the Warring States Period. The fourth category most conforms to the characteristics of Qizi, retaining more physical structure and calligraphy style of Qizi. The calligraphy of bamboo slips is beautiful and generous, and its density is appropriate, which is of great value to the study of China's calligraphy history.

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There were ways to take notes on bamboo slips in the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period, and many bamboo slips were found in the Warring States Period. Bamboo slips in the middle and late Warring States period include manuscripts, ancient books and divination records. The official scripts on Qin Muxie and Qin Bamboo Slips are square, rectangular and flat, and the strokes are fat, thin, rigid and soft, which are changeable. There are obvious ups and downs and waves in the point and surface, and there are differences between lightness, heaviness, illness and Xu in the pen, which is an extremely precious material for textual research on the development of official script.

Bamboo slips in the Warring States period were written by hand. The strokes of these characters are elastic, the starting and ending points are sharp, and the middle or front part is slightly thicker, which fully shows the characteristics of writing with a brush. This is different from the stroke form of bronze inscriptions, which changes from late weight to beauty, and the strokes and styles are simpler than those of seal script. It can be seen that the early official script was popular long before Qin Shihuang popularized Xiao Zhuan. "Bamboo Slips" is a school of calligraphy in China in recent years (also known as "Bamboo Slip Calligraphy"). This is a "Guli" style that imitates bamboo slips and silk scripts in Qin and Han Dynasties, that is, it imitates ancient calligraphy on bamboo chips, wood chips and silk fabrics in the pre-Qin and Han Dynasties, that is, it uses a unique Chinese painting pigment to prepare ancient ochre yellow, and brushes vertical strips similar to bamboo slips on raw rice paper with a blackboard brush. The fonts are written on these ochre "bamboo slips", which has the following characteristics. Accurately grasping the moment of color change makes calligraphy get the beauty of "coloring with the class". This kind of calligraphy presents a lively image. The calligraphy art of "simplified Chinese characters" complements each other in the abstraction of pictures and texts. Let us appreciate the art of calligraphy, but also gallop in the space where colors and patterns bring us unlimited imagination.