1. seal script: It is divided into big seal script and small seal script, which originated in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty and was mainly used for divination. Big seal script includes bronze script, bronze script and six languages. Small seal script is the common language of Qin State and a transitional stage in the development history of Chinese characters.
2. Official script: also known as Han Li, originated in the Qin Dynasty and compiled by Cheng Miao. It reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which had a great influence on later calligraphy. Lishu is characterized by a long horizontal drawing, a short straight drawing, and a rectangle, paying attention to the twists and turns of the silkworm head and goose tail.
3. Regular script: also known as regular script and original script, it is a font gradually evolved from official script. Regular script is characterized by square shape and straight strokes, which can be used as a model. Regular script appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty and later developed into various styles, such as European style, Yu style, Yan style, Liu style and Zhao Ti style.
4, running script: between regular script and cursive script, in order to make up for the slow writing speed of regular script and the illegibility of cursive script. The strokes of running script are relatively smooth, both regular script and cursive script.
5. cursive script: a font produced for the convenience of writing.
The characteristics of calligraphy fonts:
Seal script: seal script is thin, vigorous and straight, with many straight lines. Pens started in Fang Bi, round pens and sharp pens. The simplified font of Da Zhuan is characterized by uniform and neat font, and the font is easier to write than that of Wen Shu.
Official script: Official script is much more convenient than seal script, which saves a lot of precious time for future generations and has great academic value.
Regular script: Regular script, also known as regular script and original script, is a font gradually evolved from official script. Regular script is characterized by square shape and straight strokes, which can be used as a model. Regular script appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty and later developed into various styles, such as European style, Yu style, Yan style, Liu style and Zhao Ti style.
Running script: The strokes of running script are relatively smooth, both regular script and cursive script.
Cursive script: Cursive script can be divided into Cao Zhang and Jincao, among which Cao Zhang is a common Cao Li in the early Han Dynasty, and later it gradually developed into Cao Zhang with artistic value. In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Xu and Huai Su developed into weeds with continuous strokes and changeable glyphs.