Second, after the unification of words, in case of emergency, or when drafting documents and recording other people's conversations, the strokes are quick, the strokes of Lian Bi are omitted, and the scribbled words written by letters are not standardized. This scribble is difficult to communicate with, and even after a long time, it is difficult for the writer to recognize it. This scrawled word belongs to the generalized cursive script.
In order to facilitate writing, after a long process of convention, especially in the period of the transformation from seal script to official script, the popular cursive script has gradually increased and the writing method has gradually unified. After the process of quantitative change to qualitative change, a cursive script with statutes was finally produced, that is, Cao Zhang, which further developed into today's cursive script. In a narrow sense, cursive script refers to Cao Zhang and today's grass.
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The name of cursive script was mentioned for the first time in history. Syria ",Syria clearly pointed out that" Han Xing has a cursive script ". From Han Dynasty to Tang Dynasty, Cao Zhang, modern grass, wild grass and other main forms appeared successively. Cao Zhang has strict rules, so people call it Cao Zhang, and later cursive script and regular script are collectively called Today Grass. Cursive script usually refers to "present grass".
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the famous cursive writer Zhang Zhi appeared. He is known as "Cao Sheng" because of his exquisite handwriting. In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Huaiguan listed Zhang Zhi's Cao Zhang and Jin Cao as masterpieces. Zhang Xu, a famous cursive master, appeared in the Tang Dynasty. His word "Gao Bo" pioneered "weeds" and was called "Cao Xian".