What are the styles of calligraphy?

First of all, we should fully understand all kinds of Chinese fonts. Generally speaking, there are three kinds of Chinese fonts at present. The first category is Song Style and Bold Style (including thick and thin lines) developed from movable type printing in Song Dynasty. The second category is the fonts evolved from calligraphy, such as regular script, imitation song style, running script, official script, calligraphy style, regular script, thin gold style, pen style and so on. The third category belongs to art fonts, such as variety, tanning, amber, water column and so on. Most other fonts belong to the variants of the above three types of fonts, such as: Da Dian Song, Xiao Dian Song, Bao Song, Chang Song, Zhong Song, Yao Ti, etc. Big black, flat black, thick black, isobar (including thick, medium and thin isobar, and then evolved into thick, accurate and thin circle) and so on; From regular script, imitation song, etc. , Chinese books, fine imitation of Song Dynasty, etc. ; Beauty and black evolved from black body and song style; The body evolved from Li et al.

2. Characteristics of Chinese characters

To make good use of various fonts, we must first understand the characteristics of various fonts, such as their structure, strokes, glyphs and so on. At present, the commonly used words of books, periodicals and newspapers are Song Ti (including Song Ti, Book Song Ti, Newspaper Song Ti, Standard Song Ti, etc.). ).

Song typeface is steady, beautiful, clear and eye-catching. It has been favored by people in the application of books and periodicals for thousands of years. Therefore, this font is mostly used in the text of books, periodicals and newspapers (books and periodicals generally have large fonts and relatively large line spacing, and mostly use books and Song fonts with slightly thick vertical paintings, but now some magazines or books also use thin lines, while newspapers use books and Song fonts because of dense line spacing and small font size).

Bold characters absorb the advantages of strict structure of Song Dynasty in font frame. In the stroke shape, the horizontal painting is bold, and the Song shrug angle is flattened into an isoline shape, so that the horizontal and vertical strokes are uniform in thickness, and the strokes with different tips and tails in Song style are changed into square strokes, which is unique and gives people a rough, rigid, serious, solemn and simple feeling.

The fonts such as regular script, line script, official script, official script and comfortable script are calligraphy fonts. All calligraphy fonts can be written directly with China's unique brush. Regular script characters have elegant fonts, rounded strokes and beautiful fonts. The running script is exquisite in font and flexible in strokes, with a certain randomness and the connection of upper and lower strokes.

The official script font is simple, flat and tortuous, and the silkworm head and goose tail have the beauty of dance and continuity.

Wei Ti's fonts are vigorous and powerful, and his strokes are thick.

Calligraphy is a font created by Shu Tong, praised by Chairman Mao as "the calligrapher of the Red Army". Its font is lively, the strokes change greatly, and it is flexible and casual.

Yan Ti was created on the basis of the calligraphy of Yan Zhenqing, a great calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. Its font is similar to that of Yan Zhenqing, and it has a strong and solemn beauty.

Pen body is a kind of font that imitates hard pen calligraphy, similar to pen, and the strokes are more lively, like lotus roots, with uninterrupted beauty.

It belongs to the synthesis of fine arts fonts, maintains the vigorous and powerful characteristics of thick strokes, and makes bold changes to the structure and strokes of words, making it artistic.

The beautiful black body combines the beauty of Song style with the rough beauty of black body.

The font of amber characters is full and round, bold and unconstrained, and naturally superimposed.