1. Running script first started at the end of Han Dynasty and reached maturity in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.
2. Running script is a kind of calligraphy, which is divided into running script and running script. It is developed and originated on the basis of regular script, and it is a font between regular script and cursive script, which is produced to make up for the slow writing speed of regular script and the illegibility of cursive script.
3. "Go" means "go", so it is not as scribbled as cursive script, nor as straight as regular script. Whether it is cursive or cursive in essence. Those with more patterns than grass patterns are called "running patterns", and those with more grass patterns are called "running grass".
4. Running script is practical and artistic, and regular script is a character symbol, which is practical and kung fu; Comparatively speaking, cursive script is highly artistic, but its practicality is relatively insufficient.
5. Running script is a kind of calligraphy between regular script and cursive script, which appeared in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. The name of the running script first appeared in Wei Heng's Four Books in the Western Jin Dynasty: Zhong (Yao) and Hu (Zhao) all studied calligraphy, and Zhang Huai's Shu Duan in the Tang Dynasty recorded: "The calligrapher is Liu Desheng. That is, the book is small and fake, and the affairs are simple and popular, so it is called a running account. " Zhang Huai said in Lun Heng: "Fu Shu is neither grass nor true, which is related to the time of Ji Meng. The truth is true, and the grass is grass. "
6. Feng Fang in the Ming Dynasty has a more vivid description in Ji Shu: "Write without stopping, write without engraving, turn gently and press lightly, like running water, without interruption, and continue in business forever." Running script is popular and widely spread because of its unique artistic expression and wide practicability, such as flowing, fast writing, elegant and simple.
7. After the golden period of Wei and Jin Dynasties and the development period of Tang Dynasty, the running script reached a new peak in the 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.