Cao Zhang is an early cursive script, which began in the Qin Dynasty, as opposed to "modern cursive script". Cao Zhang is a kind of official script that is written very quickly. Cursive script is not from regular script, but from cursive script and quick script of official script. At first, the cursive script of Lishu was called cursive script, but in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, after the formation of new cursive script, the cursive script of Han Dynasty was called Cao Zhang.
Cao Zhang, one of the traditional calligraphy styles, is an early cursive script, which began in the Qin and Han Dynasties and evolved from a cursive official script to a standard cursive script. Cao Zhang is the predecessor of Today's Grass, which was produced at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and was changed by Cao Zhang. As Li Zhimin said: "Close to the pool, consider the reason, get the heart from things, realize the image, and then enter the beauty of cursive script." ?
The characteristics of Cao Zhang are as follows:
1. The horizontal paintings of the first pen and the last pen often have the style of "Silkworm Head and Wild Goose Tail" in official script, which is to the right, but not complete or heavy.
2. Finally, the right oblique stroke of the pen is dignified and long, which drives the whole glyph to be steep and soft.
3. Heavy strokes are mostly at the end of the word, and the ending is relatively calm.
4. The component connection of Chinese characters is common, especially the stroke connection is frequent, and the connection is widely used, and the strokes are mostly arc-shaped, pitching and lying, echoing each other, and the points written separately are also very strong.
5, the left and right structures can not be connected, generally not connected, words are not connected intermittently.
6. Some of Cao Zhang's characters are similar to running script, some are similar to cursive script, and a few figures are similar to regular script.
7. Go flat, like the word "B", turn right and bend to the hook.