The evolution order of Chinese characters

The evolution order of Chinese characters: hieroglyphics, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, seal script, official script, regular script and running script.

Hieroglyphs evolved from hieroglyphs and are one of the oldest fonts. Unlike phonography, hieroglyphs belong to ideographs. Because of the inherent complexity and difficulty in learning, hieroglyphics are gradually replaced by pinyin characters which are easier to learn and master initially in most areas.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions is an ancient script in China, also known as Wen Qi, Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Yin Ruins or tortoise shell and animal bones. 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.

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.

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".

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.

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.