Official script is relative to seal script, and its name originated from the Eastern Han Dynasty. The appearance of official script is another great change of China characters, which brings China's calligraphy art into a new realm, is a turning point in the development history of Chinese characters, and lays the foundation for regular script. Official script is flat, neat and exquisite. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the painting methods such as skimming, pressing and pointing were beautified as upward provocation, with different degrees of severity and artistic beauty of calligraphy. Styles also tend to be diversified, which is of great artistic appreciation value.
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According to legend, Li Shu was compiled by Cheng Miao in prison at the end of Qin Dynasty, which simplified traditional Chinese characters, rounded fonts and changed strokes into straight ones. Changing "Lian Bi" into "broken pen" and changing lines into strokes makes writing more convenient. "Li Ben" is not a prisoner, but a small official, that is, a small official in charge of documents, so in ancient times, official script was called "Zuo Shu". At the same time, cursive script, regular script and running script were derived, which laid the foundation for art.
Official script is basically evolved from seal script, mainly changing the round strokes of seal script into square folds. Because it is difficult to draw round strokes on wooden slips with pigments, the official script is written faster.
Variant official script, also called official script. It is a popular style of official script in contemporary calligraphy, and it is a writing style that pays attention to change and individuality in terms of traditional official script. The strokes are not standardized, emphasizing improvisation. However, Fan Xiaoge, the master of official script, believes that the purpose of official script is to be beautiful, not ugly. If everyone pursues writing variant characters, then variant characters will also be stylized. He believes that some variants of official script only pursue great feeling and great effect, and they can't stand scrutiny on single words and strokes. Often used to cover up the lack of basic skills with great fanfare.
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