Why is official script a great change in the history of calligraphy?

China's writing has gone through thousands of years from the beginning to the end of Xiao Zhuan in Qin Dynasty, but no matter how it evolves, it has never broken into a moth, and it is always a pupa, which is an image word. Pictographic characters are characterized by many strokes, difficult recognition and slow writing speed.

The reason for the emergence, evolution and appearance of official script is to solve the above problems.

Of course, it has a process of official transformation. In this process, one is to get rid of the solidification of the font structure of seal script and move towards the abstract expression of the temporal and spatial movement of lines. Specifically, the structure of official script is characterized by extending left and right, which increases the expression space of the beauty of words and strokes; Secondly, from euphemistic arc pen to steep straight pen, from continuous and complicated circle to rotating Fang Bi. Because of the simplification and simplification of strokes, the structure of image characters has been broken, and the image meaning of characters has become symbol-oriented.

As a result, the official script with independent character and aesthetic characteristics has become a more advanced calligraphy style in the history of China calligraphy after the biography of Daxiao. Thus, it established its unshakable and important position in the history of China calligraphy.

The appearance of official script is not only a great change of ancient Chinese characters in China, but also a turning point in the evolution of Chinese characters. Because of the symbolization of its stroke structure, the meaning of words has changed from knowing meaning to knowing meaning, which has laid a solid foundation for the formation of modern words.