The characters used in the Han Dynasty are mainly official scripts.
With the rise of the Qin Dynasty in the Han Dynasty, culture has changed. One of them is that Li Shu replaced Xiao Zhuan as the main popular calligraphy style and became one of the symbols of Chinese culture. There is even the saying of "Han Li Tang Kai" in the calligraphy circle.
By the Eastern Han Dynasty, especially in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Lishu had reached a highly mature stage. Due to the implementation of thick burial in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the official official script fully displayed the artistic brilliance in the stone carvings.
Han Li, the general name of official script in Han Dynasty. Because of the vivid brushwork and diverse styles of the official script on the tablet in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the official script in the Tang Dynasty was called "Tang Li", so those who learned to write official script attached great importance to the tablet in the Eastern Han Dynasty and called it "Han Li" in this period, which was different from "Tang Li".
Lishu has a solemn font, a slightly wide and flat rectangular structure, long horizontal painting and short straight painting, and pays attention to "silkworm head and goose tail" and "twists and turns".
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The development of official script in Han dynasty
Generally speaking, official script is different from that of Han Li. Qin Li can also be seen in the imperial edicts of weights and measures among unearthed cultural relics. At this time, the structure of official script was still long, and the size of words was not limited. Some people call it "Guli", which was still used in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty.
Lishu changed gradually with the changes of the times, and in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the stereotyped Han Li was formed. Especially in the period of Heng and Ling (A.D. 174- 189), it reached its peak. Han Li's stereotyped fonts mainly refer to the handwriting of this period.
Stereotyped official script has formed its own style in calligraphy. Above the pen, the circle can be used at the same time, and there are ways to hide the front and expose the front; In the form of strokes, the characteristics of the swallow tail of the silkworm head appear, and the long horizontal paintings include the silkworm head, wave potential, pitch and tail; Physically, it is a change from vertical potential to square potential and then to flat horizontal potential; Structurally, China's official position is tight, and his strokes spread to the left and right, showing a symmetrical "eight-character shape", so it is called "eight points" by Han Li.
The style of official script, from writing to writing, is solemn, neat and changeable. This font inherits the seal script and ancient Chinese characters, with regular script at the bottom and a pen crossing the line. Therefore, official script plays an important role in calligraphy.
Official script has developed into a stereotyped official script in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it has become the official standard font with strict laws and regulations. The official script left in this period is rich and colorful, especially in the Eastern Han Dynasty, when monuments were handed down from generation to generation, so the inscriptions left behind are the most and the most exquisite.
In ancient times, the so-called "monument" was a rectangular stone at the entrance of palaces and temples, which was used to look at the shadow of the sun and tie animals. In the Qin Dynasty, characters were carved on stones as memorials or signs, or as announcements. Qin dynasty called it "monument", and Han dynasty later called it "monument".
Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, there have been many forms of inscriptions, such as inscriptions, epitaphs and tombstones. To record and praise virtue. These inscriptions left a wealth for calligraphy. It is said that there are 170 kinds of inscriptions left by the Eastern Han Dynasty.