The first style is gorgeous and dignified. Calligraphy is simple, simple, majestic and straight, with thick pens in the structure and no sharp ends. The size of the word is tailor-made for the body, which is very suitable. He Zun and Kang Hougui in the reign of king, Ding Qi and Ding Yu in the reign of Kang Wang.
Da Ding Yuming *** 19 lines, 29 1 word, whose inscription is dignified, magnificent and Tong Qi, is the highest calligraphy attainments in the bronze inscriptions in Cheng Kang era, and its rubbings and manuscripts are still treasured by calligraphers. It records Kang Wang's recollection that he was ordered to go to Jianbang, and the Yin people lost their country because of drinking in the ruling and opposition parties.
The second style is unrestrained. Some are slightly gorgeous and have more freedom of movement; Others are written casually and are not bound by the usual rigorous model. People in human form or with people, clothes, weights, clothes, pages, etc. As well as hieroglyphics with human body shapes, they all highlight their shapes with fat pens, and the wave phenomenon is also obvious, so calligraphers call them wave bodies, which are developed from the calligraphy style in the late Shang Dynasty.
Other characters, Yan, and Shi are also used in thick pens. In an inscription, the same words are often written in different ways, and their weight and size are deliberately changed. The typical works of this kind of inscription are Bao Mao, Kang Wang's Dafang Ding, Zhao Mao, etc.
Compared with the first two styles, the third style is simple in quality. The font is simple and simple, the structure does not need a fat pen, and there is no or little exposure. In the early Western Zhou Dynasty, this kind of calligraphy was few, but it was simple and generous, easy to write, and more easily accepted by people, which represented the direction of calligraphy evolution in a certain sense. The inscription on the vessel is represented by Li Chan and Tian Wuchan in the period of King Wu.
The bronze inscriptions in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty showed obvious stage characteristics.
Bronze experts usually regard Hecheng Wang as the first stage of the early Western Zhou Dynasty, but some inscriptions in Kang Wang period still have the characteristics of this stage. In terms of content, there are still many inscriptions on ethnic names with few words and their combinations with the names of ancestors. Most bronzes with such inscriptions belong to the adherents of the Shang Dynasty who surrendered to the Zhou Dynasty after the subjugation of the Shang Dynasty.
But since this stage, more and more long inscriptions have appeared, which is related to many important historical facts in the early Western Zhou Dynasty and the official and military systems at that time. On the whole, the bronze inscriptions at this stage still retain some characteristics of the bronze inscriptions in the late Shang Dynasty. First of all, the layout is not regular enough, or it is vertical and not horizontal. The font size is still uneven.
Pictographs are still strong. The writing momentum is also bold and unconstrained, and the strokes are thick and dignified. Some strokes are thick and fat in the middle, while the first and second strokes are sharp and the strokes are full of twists and turns. We can know the above characteristics from the inscriptions of Li Chan, Baochan, Houding and Dafangding in the Wu Dynasty and Kang Wang Period.