What is the evolution process of China fonts?

The evolution of Chinese characters in China: Oracle Bone Inscriptions, inscriptions on bronze, seal script, official script, cursive script, regular script and running script. These seven fonts are called "seven Chinese characters".

Chinese characters are one of the oldest characters in the world, with a history of at least 4000 years. The earliest recognizable mature Chinese character system was Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty. Chinese characters gradually change from graphics to strokes, from pictographs to symbols, and from complexity to simplicity. In the principle of word formation, from ideographic, ideographic to phonological. With few exceptions, they are all one Chinese character and one syllable, which is much more complicated than other words.

1, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, is an ancient writing in China, also known as "Wen Qi", "Oracle Bone Inscriptions", "Yin Ruins" or "tortoise shell and animal bones writing". The earliest mature Chinese characters we can see mainly refer to the characters carved on tortoise shells or animal bones by the royal family in China in the late Shang Dynasty, which is a carrier of the earliest systematic Shang Dynasty characters known in China and East Asia.

2. Jinwen

Bronze inscription is a calligraphy name of Chinese characters, which refers to the inscriptions cast on bronzes in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, also called Zhong Dingwen. Shang and Zhou Dynasties were the bronze age, with the tripod as the representative ritual vessel and the bell as the representative musical instrument. "Zhong Ding" was synonymous with bronze ware.

3. Xiao zhuan

After Qin Shihuang unified the six countries (22 BC1year), he implemented the policy of "the same language in words and the same track in cars", and the unified measurement was in the charge of Prime Minister Lisi. On the basis of the original seal script used by Qin, he simplified it and created a unified writing form of Chinese characters. Popular from the Qin Dynasty to the end of the Western Han Dynasty (about 8 AD), it was gradually replaced by official script.

4. Official script

Lishu is a Chinese font, including Qin Lishu and Han Li. It is generally believed that it is developed from seal script, with wide and flat font, long horizontal painting and short vertical painting, and pays attention to "swallow tail of silkworm head" and "twists and turns". According to the unearthed bamboo slips, official script originated in Qin Dynasty, and Cheng Miao was also called official script. Han Li reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty, inherited the tradition of seal script, and opened the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, which had a great influence on later calligraphy. The calligraphy circle is known as "Tang Kai of Han Li".

5, cursive script

Cursive script is a font of Chinese characters, which can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. In a broad sense, regardless of the age, all scribbled words are regarded as cursive. Narrow sense, that is, as a specific font, was formed in the Han Dynasty and evolved on the basis of official script in order to write simply.

6. Regular script

Regular script, a font of Chinese characters, is also called regular script, regular script, original script and regular script. It gradually evolved from official script, becoming more simplified and more horizontal and vertical. The book Ci Hai is interpreted as "square in shape and straight in brushwork, which can be used as a model". This kind of Chinese character has the correct font and is a modern popular handwritten orthographic Chinese character.

7. Running script

Running script is a kind of calligraphy, which is divided into running script and running script. It is developed and originated on the basis of regular script, and it is a font between regular script and cursive script, which is produced to make up for the slow writing speed of regular script and the illegibility of cursive script. "Go" means "go", so it is not as scribbled as cursive script, nor as straight as regular script. Whether it is cursive or cursive in essence. Those with more patterns than grass patterns are called "running patterns", and those with more grass patterns are called "running grass". Running script is both practical and artistic, and regular script is a literal symbol, which is practical and skillful; Comparatively speaking, cursive script is highly artistic, but its practicality is relatively insufficient.