Jin (pinyin: jìn, jǐn) is a first-class common Chinese character. The word first appeared in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty, and its ancient glyph is like a hand holding a brush to scrub utensils, indicating that the diet is exhausted, thus indicating fatigue. The original meaning is that the vessel is empty and clean, which generally refers to exhaustion and exhaustion. Stretch to the end, finished, exhausted.
From righteousness to death, reach the limit. From exhaustive meaning, that is, all use and exhaustive meaning, it is extended to range adverbs all and all. All the above meanings are pronounced as j ì n. Sometimes j ǐ n. is pronounced as an adverb, which means to reach the maximum, such as "as far as possible", "as soon as possible" and "as soon as possible", and can also indicate the persistence of behavior.
Know words. On the upper right of Oracle Bone Inscriptions is a hand (another hand), holding a brush, and below is a food container (dish), which means scrubbing the food container; Wash it and it's done. The word "Jin" has distinct characteristics in Shang Dynasty. The use case of the Western Zhou Dynasty has not yet been discovered. By the Warring States period, the shape of the lower brush had changed. The original upside-down style hanging obliquely from left to right was changed into several oblique paintings, or was mistaken for a "fire" shape, which was the basis of subsequent evolution.
The development history of running script
Running script is a writing style after cursive script and regular script. According to legend, it was written by Liu Desheng, a calligrapher in the period of Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling. Wei Heng in the Western Jin Dynasty said in "Si Ti Shu": "There are two schools, Zhong (Yao) and Hu (Zhao), who learn from each other." Unfortunately, Liu Desheng left no ink.
Running script is a kind of writing that is slightly modified on the basis of regular script, which is more convenient to write and popular at the same time as regular script. The style of running script is between cursive script and regular script, which is not as difficult to write and recognize as cursive script, nor as rigorous and dignified as regular script. So the ancients said it was "not true and not grass" It is characterized by adopting a certain cursive method, partially simplifying the strokes of regular script, changing the stroke shape of regular script and cursing the structure of regular script.
Wang Xizhi's running script comes down in one continuous line with that of Liu Desheng and Zhong You, pushing the running script to a quite mature height. There are not many original works left by Wang Xizhi, and most of them are copied by later generations. His running script posts include Aunt's Post, Sunny Post in Fast Snow, Preface to Lanting, Preface to Saint Education and so on. Among them, Preface to Lanting is the most outstanding representative of Wang Xizhi's running script, which has been called "the best running script in the world" in all previous dynasties.