Because of its unique artistic expression and wide practicability, running script has been favored and widely circulated since its birth. After the golden period of Wei and Jin Dynasties and the development period of Tang Dynasty, running script reached a new peak in Song Dynasty and gradually occupied the mainstream position in various calligraphy styles.
Throughout the long history of calligraphy, the development of seal script, official script and regular script has ups and downs, while running script is immortal, which has always been a prominent study in calligraphy. Great calligraphers of past dynasties wrote a glorious history of running script development.
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Running script is a typical calligraphy style with practicality and artistry, and it is the mainstream calligraphy style in the history of calligraphy. Naturally, it is loved by calligraphers of all ages, and it also allows calligraphers of all ages to give full play to their abilities. For more than a thousand years, successful calligraphers who are good at running calligraphy can be described as "mountains and rivers produce talents, each leading the way for hundreds of years." They constitute the magnificence in the history of running script development, and also complicate the evolution of running script style.
Even so, we can still grasp and sort it out from a big angle. From the source of calligrapher's method, the basis of reform, the evolution trend of running script and the creative style that has been presented in history.
The history of running script can be summarized into four types: two kings' running script system, Yan Zhenqing's running script system, tablet-style running script system and the running script system changed from early bamboo slips. These four styles have a sequence in the longitudinal direction of history, and their characteristics are the evolution and diversification of running script styles, but they are in a state of juxtaposition in contemporary times.
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