The difference between seal script and cursive script

1, seal script: there are two kinds of seal script: big seal script and small seal script. The seal script is divided into Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Zhong Dingwen and Shi Guwen.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the earliest writing. During the Shang Dynasty (3,000 years ago), when ancestors predicted bad luck, recorded divination, sacrifice and other activities, they were carved on tortoise bones and animal bones.

Zhong Dingwen is an inscription carved on bronzes in Shang and Zhou Dynasties, also known as inscriptions on bronze. The bell stands for musical instrument, and the tripod stands for ritual vessel. At that time, a surname Shu arranged these words. Wen Shu refers to Zhong Dingwen, a real seal script.

Shi Guwen is a stone carving of Qin during the Warring States Period. Ten stone drums shaped like drums are now in the Palace Museum in Beijing.

Xiao Zhuan refers to the early characters in the early days, especially Xiao Zhuan in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which is not standardized. There are many ways to write a word, and there are many pictographic elements in the word, such as the word "horse".

2. cursive script: a font produced for the convenience of writing. It began in the early Han Dynasty. At that time, it was "Cao Li", that is, scribbled official script, which gradually developed into a kind of "Cao Zhang" with artistic value. Before the Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhi changed "Cao Zhang" to "modern grass", and the character style was formed in one stroke. In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Xu and Huai Su developed into "weeds", with continuous strokes and changeable glyphs.

The cursive script is characterized by simple structure and continuous strokes. "Big grass" and "small grass" are symmetrical. Big grass is pure grass-based and difficult to identify. Zhang Xu and Huai Su are good at it, and their words are written in one stroke, sometimes out of line, but the context is constant.

The cursive script is divided into Cao Zhang, Jincao and Crazy Grass.

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Cursive script is an earlier script than regular script. Cao Zhang began the evolution from seal script to official script, and official script had a greater influence on Cao Zhang. The font is in the form of official script, and the characters are different and correct each other. Therefore, Cao Zhang is also called cursive script. Representative figures of Cao Zhang: You Shi, Du Du, Cui Yuan, Zhang Zhi, Zhang Xu and others in Han Dynasty, Huang Xiang and Suo Jing in Three Kingdoms.