What is official script?

Official script is also called official script. A Chinese character font. Originated in the Qin Dynasty, it was popular in the Han Dynasty and developed from seal script. The font is flat and the aspect ratio is about 4: 5. The left end of the main cross is like a silkworm head and the right end is like a goose tail, which is called "silkworm head goose tail". The main point of writing is: "old digging, such as turtle horseshoe;" Fold the pen to hide the front, silkworm head and goose tail; Silkworms don't gather, geese don't fly together; Heavy turbidity is light and clear and indestructible. " The official script is elegant and artistic. Often printed neatly on maps, it is mostly used to draw place names and mark large areas of place names.

Ethnicity

Official script is a font evolved from scribbling of essays. Because there are too many curved strokes, it takes a lot of time to write, so people write a little hastily in informal situations, and some curved strokes that should be neat become relatively straight strokes. This font began to appear in Qin at the end of the Warring States period, and then gradually became popular.

Wei Heng's Four-body Book in Jin Dynasty said: "Corporal Cheng Miao was an official jailer, who offended the late emperor and lived in Yunyang for ten years. Make a great seal from prison, those who gain less, those who lose more, the party as a staff, the staff as a party, the emperor played at the beginning, the emperor refined, and the book was written. Or it is said to be Li's word. " In fact, Qin people didn't start to write stick figures until Qin Shihuang unified China. Over the years, the weapons, lacquerware and pottery of the Qin State in the Warring States Period unearthed in various places, with fewer strokes, more straight strokes and fewer bends, were all made by craftsmen at that time, which was the embryonic form of official script. Cheng Miao is a petty official, and it is reasonable to sort out the simplified characters he is familiar with in prison by comparing with Da Zhuan. There is another saying about the name of official script: because this font is popular among petty officials, servants, craftsmen and slaves at the lower level, it is called "official script".

classify

Li Shu is divided into Qin Li, Han Li and Hafen. Qin Li refers to the simplified Chinese characters used in Qin Shihuang's period. The daily application of the Han Dynasty is still official script, but the form and brushwork are constantly developing. In the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a solemn and elegant new style appeared. In the fourth year of Xiping (A.D. 175), Shijing stood in the Imperial College with a new style and became the national standard calligraphy style. Wei was later called Bafen.

Li Bian

Chinese characters evolved from seal script to official script, which is called "official change" Li Bian is an important event and an important turning point in the development history of Chinese characters. The form of Chinese characters after the official reform is basically close to the Chinese characters we use today.