official script
Lishu is a Chinese font, including Qin Lishu and Han Li. It is generally believed that it is developed from seal script, with wide and flat font, long horizontal painting and short vertical painting, and pays attention to "swallow tail of silkworm head" and "twists and turns".
According to the unearthed bamboo slips, official script originated in Qin Dynasty, and Cheng Miao was also called official script. Han Li reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty, inherited the tradition of seal script, and opened the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, which had a great influence on later calligraphy. The calligraphy circle is known as "Tang Kai of Han Li".
Regarding the definition of official script, Mr. Wu said in the article "Looking at the Early Official Script of Qin and Han Dynasties from the Unearthed Silk Slips of Qin Bamboo Slips": "It can be explained by the original meaning of this word.
Shuo Wen Jie Zi explains that Li means "attachment", while The Biography of Feng Yi in the Later Han Dynasty teaches it as "genus", and there is still a word "cong" in modern Chinese. Wei Hengzhuan in the Book of Jin, Shuo Wen Jie Zi Preface and paragraph notes all think that official script is inferior to Sasuke's seal script, so official script is the auxiliary font of Xiao's seal script. "
Knowledge expansion:
Official script is relative to seal script, and its name originated from the Eastern Han Dynasty. The appearance of official script is another great change of China characters, which brings China's calligraphy art into a new realm, is a turning point in the development history of Chinese characters, and lays the foundation for regular script.
Official script is flat, neat and exquisite. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the painting methods such as skimming, pressing and pointing were beautified as upward provocation, with different degrees of severity and artistic beauty of calligraphy. Styles also tend to be diversified, which is of great artistic appreciation value.
The horizontal (left-right) potential of Li character is changed to vertical potential to form a square, and the strokes contract the vertical potential to strengthen the horizontal potential.
The writing method of stippling in official script is obviously different from that in seal script. The stippling in seal script can be summarized into three types: point, straight and arc, and the development of official script has already possessed eight strokes in the eight methods of permanent characters. In terms of strokes, seal script is mostly round, while official script has always been used by Fiona Fang, and the thickness of strokes has changed.