The contents of calligraphy include:
1. Calligraphy
Calligraphy is not just writing. Chinese characters are only its carrier, just like a human body has five senses and limbs, but appearance is the main way to identify the differences between people. Calligraphy has its own appearance on the "body" with five senses and limbs.
2. Dharma script
Dharma script, as the name suggests, is a calligraphy work with legal standards. In the final analysis, laws are the summary of experience. It is generally believed that beautiful laws are "laws".
3. Hanmo
Hanmo is just another name for calligraphy. "Han" originally refers to long and hard feathers, and later it also refers to writing brushes, articles, letters, etc. Later, it was combined with "ink" to refer specifically to calligraphy.
4. Gold and stone
This noun is very simple, it is nothing more than "gold" and "stone". Explained separately, "gold" refers to ancient bronze ritual vessels, and "stone" refers to stone writing carriers such as stele, epitaph, and cliff. The characters written on bronze vessels, cliffs, tombstones, etc. are epigraphic calligraphy.
5. Authentic handwriting
Authentic and reliable handwriting rather than pretense or forgery by others.
6. Ink marks
Ink marks are handwriting written in ink. Generally refers to the surviving calligraphy works.
7. Rubbings
Using rice paper and ink or cinnabar to copy the calligraphy originally engraved on bronze or stone in the form of reverse printing is called rubbings. The actual object was first seen in the Tang Dynasty.
8. Stone carvings
Generally refers to the calligraphy and paintings engraved on steles and cliffs. Such as "Longmen Twenty Ranks", "Epitaph Seven Ranks" and so on.
9. Monuments
Before the Han Dynasty, there were very few personal tombstones. Most of the steles are used to sing praises, record and pass down certain important events. Later, during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the form of epitaphs began to be transformed into the setting of monuments on the ground to write biographies.
10. Jie
A type of shape in carved stone. "Book of the Later Han·Biography of Dou Xian" notes: "The square one is called a stele, and the round one is called Jie." The stone drum inscriptions that exist today are engraved on drum-shaped round stones. The content is to sing about the hunting of the monarch of Qin State, so it is also called "Hunting Jie".
11. Stele Yin
The front of a tombstone is called "Stele Yang", and the back is called "Stele Yin".
12. Seal forehead
Zhuan forehead is the forehead of the stele written in seal script
13. Seal cover
From the Sui and Tang Dynasties, burial The epitaphs in the ground usually have a stone cover, and seal script is used to decorate the stone cover and serve as a record, which is the seal cover.