1. Lower your head and pick up the lotus seeds. The lotus seeds are as clear as water. "Song of Picking Lotuses"
Lotus - Lity
2. There is no clear sky but there is sunshine. Liu Yuxi's "Bamboo Branch Ci"
Qing - Love
Reply
1. Imperial Edict (Typing 1) Ling
2. Losing the Ordinary Heart ( Typing one) Ji
3. Missed (typing one) Wen
4. Wet firewood (typing one) Mu
5. Eighteen signs send two tears Line (typing one) Hunan
6. Ten drops of water (typing one) juice
7. Ten to ten (typing one) Hui
8. Twelve Cun (type one) to the end
9. Set off at twelve o'clock (type one) 迿
10. Arrive at twelve o'clock (type one) country
In Chinese characters, various fonts formed in various historical periods have their own distinctive artistic characteristics.
The origin of Chinese characters is well-documented. It was in the late Yin and Shang Dynasties around the 14th century BC. At this time, the preliminary fonts, namely oracle bone inscriptions, were formed. Oracle bone inscriptions are inscriptions written on tortoise shells and animal bones during the Yin and Shang Dynasties. Because it is inscribed on oracle bone tablets of different shapes, it is difficult to change after inscription, so the ancestors followed the instructions and completed them in one go. The overall effect can be neat and well-proportioned, or varied and random, reflecting the human nature of pursuing balance, symmetry, harmony and stability. Oracle bone inscriptions are both pictographs and phonetic characters, and there are still some pictographs in Chinese characters that are the same as pictures, which are very vivid.
In the late Western Zhou Dynasty, Chinese characters developed into large seal scripts. The development of large seal script resulted in two characteristics: first, linearization. The uneven thickness of the early lines became even and soft, and the lines they drew with the actual objects were very concise and vivid; second, standardization, the glyph structure tended to be neat, and gradually left the The original form of the picture laid the foundation for the square characters.
Later, Prime Minister Li Si of the Qin Dynasty simplified the large seal script and changed it to small seal script. In addition to simplifying the shape of the large seal script, the small seal script also perfected the lines and standardization. It was almost completely separated from the pictorial characters and became a neat, harmonious and very beautiful basically rectangular block font. However, Xiaozhuan also has its own fundamental shortcomings, that is, its lines are very inconvenient to write with a pen, so almost at the same time, the shape of the official script was stretched to both sides to become a flat square.
In the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, and the centralized system was further developed and strengthened. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, with his great talent and broad strategy, conquered the east and west, constantly expanded the territory of the central empire, and established a military garrison system to protect the eternal peace of the border areas. This garrison system allowed Chinese culture to spread and take root rapidly in the border areas. At the same time, there were higher requirements for the quality, speed, and quantity of information dissemination. At this time, Xiaozhuan was gradually simplified and evolved into official script, which is known as the "official change" in history. This change is not only because Xiaozhuan is complicated and difficult to write, but also requires reform. The most important essential reason is closely related to the invention and popularization of the Chinese writing tool, the brush. It is the writing form of the brush that transformed the pictorial nature of seal script into a square and straight one, turning the pictorial Chinese characters into abstractions, and preliminarily formed the dot, horizontal, left, N, vertical, lift and hook that constitute the basic elements of Chinese characters. , folded stroke characteristics and square shape characteristics. Later, official script evolved into Zhangcao, and then Jincao. In the Tang Dynasty, there was Kuangcao, which expresses the writer's thoughts and expresses his feelings on the pen. Subsequently, regular script (also known as real script), which was a blend of official script and cursive script, became popular in the Tang Dynasty. The printing style we use today evolved from regular script. Between regular script and cursive script is running script, which is smooth in writing and flexible in use. It is said to have been made by Liu Desheng in the Han Dynasty. It has been passed down to this day and is still the font we are accustomed to using in daily writing.
In the Song Dynasty, with the development of printing, woodblock printing was widely used, and Chinese characters were further improved and developed, resulting in a new type of calligraphy - Song Dynasty printing font. After the invention of printing, the engraving knives used for lettering had a profound impact on the shape of Chinese characters, resulting in a printing font that was thin horizontally and thick vertically, eye-catching and easy to read, which was later called Song Dynasty. There were two types of fonts carved at that time: fat and thin, the fat ones imitating Yan style and Liu style, and the thin ones imitating European style and Yu style. Among them, Yan style and Liu style have tall and tall strokes, which already have some characteristics of thin horizontal and thick vertical lines. During the Longqing and Wanli years of the Ming Dynasty, it evolved from the Song style to the Ming style with thin horizontal strokes and thick vertical strokes and square fonts. It turns out that at that time, a kind of Hongwu style with very thin horizontal strokes and particularly thick vertical strokes and flat fonts was popular among the people. This style was used for official title plaques, lanterns, notices, private boundary stones, and the gods and master plaques in ancestral halls. font. Later, some engravers imitated the Hongwu calligraphy process and created a skin outline that was neither beautiful nor European. Especially because the strokes of this font are horizontal and vertical, it is indeed easy to carve. It is different from the four styles of seal script, Li, Zhen and Cao. It is unique and fresh and pleasing to the eye, so it is increasingly used. It has become the main printing font that has been very popular since the 16th century until today. It is still called Song Dynasty, also called lead type.