The upper character *** has 3 strokes, and the order of strokes is: vertical, horizontal, horizontal.
Xingshu is a general term for calligraphy, which is divided into two types: Xingkai and Xingcao. . It was developed on the basis of regular script. It is a font between regular script and cursive script. It was created to make up for the slow writing speed of regular script and the difficulty of identifying cursive script. "Xing" means "walking", so it is not as sloppy as cursive script, nor as straight as regular script.
Essentially, it is the cursiveization of regular script or the regularization of cursive script. Those with more regular script than cursive script are called "Xing Kai", and those with more cursive script than regular script are called "Xing Cao". . Running script has high practicality and artistry, while regular script is a text symbol, which is highly practical and shows skill. In comparison, cursive script has high artistic quality, but its practicality is relatively insufficient.
According to Zhang Huaiguan's "Shu Duan": "The running script was created by Liu Desheng of Yingchuan in the later Han Dynasty. It is a small distortion of the original script and is kept simple, so it is called running script." From this statement, we know: "Xingshu" is a font transformed from "Original Script". Cao Yun of the Qing and Song dynasties: "The so-called traveler is a small outline of the real book.
After that, it is simple and simple, like clouds and flowing water, and the fibers of the grass come out between them. It is neither real nor grass, and it escapes from the square to the round. This is the skill of Kaili. The characters must be small and sparse, with an elegant tone, old and strong muscles, and a loose character. Although the characters are not connected with the weather, the ink should be slow and orderly.
Look left and right, don't follow the program too late, otherwise you will be too lazy and lack of energy; you should not use it too fast, otherwise you will lose your momentum."