The early cursive script broke the strict rules of official script and was a hasty writing. It's called Cao Zhang. Cao Zhang's strokes are wave-shaped, with independent characters, squares and horizontal strokes. Cao Zhang was the most popular in the Han and Wei Dynasties, but it was revived in the Yuan Dynasty and transformed into the Ming Dynasty.
At the end of the Han Dynasty, Cao Zhang was further "grassed" and the strokes of Lishu were removed. The upper and lower characters and strokes are connected, and the radicals are simplified and borrowed, which is called "modern grass". In the Tang Dynasty, this kind of grass was described as "wild grass", also known as "big grass", with continuous strokes and changeable glyphs.
Today, the aesthetic value of cursive script far exceeds its practical value. One of the main features of cursive symbols is the linking of strokes, including up-and-down linking and left-and-right linking. Indulge with a pen, draw messy, also called big grass or crazy grass.
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Sue's running script is written like this:
Running script is a kind of calligraphy between regular script and cursive script, which appeared in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. The name of running script first appeared in Wei Heng's Four-body Calligraphy in the Western Jin Dynasty. Because of its unique artistic expression and wide practicability, running script has been favored and widely circulated since its birth.
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.
With the vigorous development of contemporary calligraphy art, the exploration and innovation of running script creation has set off wave after wave of upsurge, showing a diversified and prosperous scene.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-cursive script
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Baidu Encyclopedia-Running Script (Calligraphy Name)