Chinese Characters and Calligraphy in Chinese Character Culture

In modern western psychology, fonts are considered to be the most vivid embodiment of human character. I remember that Holmes made brilliant deductive reasoning about fonts in his investigation. Twenty-six letters were written by different people, showing off, hesitating, being firm or hesitating. Nowadays, investigating fonts has become an important reference for recruiting employees. A person's temper, such as impatience, ups and downs, foresight, or caution, is directly revealed in the ink of the nib. However, font, as an art, is unique in China. Xian's father and son, Yan Gu and Zuisu made calligraphy, as a kind of literati skill, enter the elegant hall, and also entered the ranks of the four wonders of calligraphy and painting very early. Today, practicing calligraphy has been a way to improve cultural literacy and cultivate one's morality, and even calligraphy has become the basic element of Chinese etiquette. The glyphs of Chinese characters are art in themselves. Every Chinese character is square, solid in bones and muscles, rigorous in structure, but easy to control in character. Oracle Bone Inscriptions used to be pictographic, but now the literature is literal, but the ideographic function of Chinese characters as pictographs has never changed. What is more commendable, however, is that each Chinese character seems to have a delicate composition and proper proportion, which makes this symbol endowed with too many artistic connotations. When the word "Jing" was abstracted into the image of a runner, its combination of agility, fortitude and femininity touched 6 billion people. When Chinese characters are popular as tattoos in Europe and America, we are not only concerned about the meaning of these symbols. Chinese characters are the most beautiful. Just because there are artistic Chinese characters, there is artistic calligraphy. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Cang Xie characters have been transformed into different variants by various countries. War can breed a large number of strategists who care about the country and the people, and also a large number of philosophers who are bent on saving the society and assisting the monarch, but they can't let the literati ponder how to improve his font. Even people with clean ears like Zhuangzi and Zhong Ziqi Yu Boya will not give up the official guidelines. In addition, writing on bamboo slips or silk books at this time is quite difficult compared with writing on paper. However, in terms of font complexity, Da Bian has made great progress compared with the inscriptions on Oracle Bone Inscriptions and sacrificial vessels. Since then, Chinese characters have bid farewell to hieroglyphics in the absolute sense. This is determined by the innovation of writing tools. We must admit that fonts and calligraphy are gradually developed, and every time fonts appear, they are basic achievements and evolved. The historical conditions of a dynasty affect the evolution speed of fonts through the influence on people's life thinking. We can find the footprint of the evolution of Chinese characters through Erya or Shuowen Jiezi. Because of the complexity of large strokes, the Qin Dynasty did not meet the busy official needs after reunification, so a large number of small strokes were preserved in unified characters. But it was still inconvenient, so Cheng Miao set up an official script in prison to help him copy official documents. When Qin Shihuang heard the news, he was overjoyed, forgave his sin and sealed the empire. Official script is very popular. The maturity of such historical conditions, that is, a unified country, has given birth to the innovation of fonts. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, scholars reduced official script and used regular script wildly. Today, this standard and powerful font is regarded as a model of neat handwriting and standardized writing, which makes the majority of "eclectic" comrades burst into tears. But in any case, the style and backbone of regular script, a solemn wind, is enough to bear the name of orthodoxy. At this time, the era of celebrating the official word is over. Soon Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty shocked ancient and modern times with his unique running script. This kind of running script abandons the standard of regular script, but inherits its integrity. Abandoned the impudence of cursive script, but left it crazy. The running script strokes are coherent and smooth, and do not stick to dribs and drabs, which fully embodies the writer's confidence and autonomy. It not only broke the etiquette norms of regular script, but also refused to be as casual as cursive script, but it was everyone's demeanor. Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing, Su Shi and Mi Fei wrote magnificent chapters with their free and easy. The cursive script, namely Cao Zhang, Cao Jin and Kuangcao, appeared earlier than the running script because some crazy people don't like regular script or official script and can't wait to express their feelings directly. Cao Zhang, which originated in the early Han Dynasty, is a cursive script of official script. The Queen of Weeds was written by Zhang Xu in Tang Dynasty, and its wild indulgence, like Youlong's cartoon, exposed the calligrapher's wild and unruly personality. However, although there is no definite writing method, cursive script is just right in writing, inheritance and structure, which is very beautiful. Unlike some people who think that cursive script is cursive script, it is a blasphemy to art. After the Han Dynasty, various calligraphy styles have appeared one after another, which is not only the commercial needs of the expanding country, but also the product of the influence of the "yellow old five tastes" on the literary scene, and the representative work of the recluse style in the Jin Dynasty. In a word, only such China can produce such calligraphy. Belong to the "scholar", a class with China characteristics, China characters and China culture. Practicing regular script can calm people's hearts and cultivate patience. Running script can make people write freely. When practicing cursive script, you can shout a song "Genghis Khan, a proud generation, only knows how to shoot an eagle with a bow" and then write a crazy book, showing the heroic spirit. Therefore, calligraphy itself is a good medicine for self-cultivation. No wonder China's literati and emperors like it so much. Emperor Taizong got the Preface to Lanting Collection by hook or by crook, and finally buried it at the bottom of the tomb. At this time, calligraphy even surpassed art.