Common calligraphy works are generally divided into regular script, official script, running script and cursive script. Below are some calligraphy works of "Mooring at Maple Bridge" by great calligraphers:
Original text: " "Night Mooring at Maple Bridge" Author: Zhang Ji
The moon is setting, crows are crying and the sky is full of frost, Jiang Feng is fishing and the fire is facing melancholy. At Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City, the bell rang for the passenger ship at midnight.
1. Official script
Official script is a font of Chinese characters, including Qin Li, Han Li, etc. It is generally believed to be developed from seal script. The fonts are mostly wide and flat, and the horizontal strokes are long. The vertical paintings are short and pay attention to "silkworm head and swallow tail" and "twists and turns".
2. Regular script:
Regular script, a font of Chinese characters, is also called regular script, regular script, true script, and regular script. It gradually evolved from the official script and became more simplified, horizontal and vertical. The book "Cihai" explains that it has "a square shape and straight strokes, which can be used as a model." This kind of Chinese character font is correct and is the modern traditional handwritten Chinese character.
3. Running script
Running script is a general term for calligraphy, which is divided into two types: running regular script and running cursive script. It was developed on the basis of regular script and is a font between regular script and cursive script. It was created to make up for the slow writing speed of regular script and the difficulty of identifying cursive script. "Xing" means "walking", so it is not as sloppy as cursive script, nor as straight as regular script. In essence, it is the cursiveization of regular script or the regularization of cursive script. Running script has high practicality and artistry, but its practicality is relatively insufficient.
4. Cursive script
Cursive script is a font of Chinese characters, which has two meanings: broad and narrow. Broadly speaking, regardless of age, all scrawled words are counted as cursive writing. In a narrow sense, that is, as a specific font, it was formed in the Han Dynasty and evolved on the basis of official script for the convenience of writing.