How many fonts have there been in China since ancient times?

There are eight fonts in China since ancient times: Oracle Bone Inscriptions, inscriptions on bronze, big seal script, small seal script, official script, regular script, cursive script and running script.

1, Oracle Bone Inscriptions: also known as "Wen Qi", "Oracle Bone Inscriptions", Yin Ruins or "tortoise shell and animal bones". This is the early form of Chinese characters, and it is also the oldest mature writing in Chinese dynasties.

2. Bronze inscription: refers to the inscription cast on the bronze wares of Yin and Zhou Dynasties, also known as Zhong Dingwen. It was widely used in Shang and Zhou Dynasties.

3. Dazhao: a font widely used in the late Western Zhou Dynasty.

4. Xiao Zhuan: After Qin Shihuang unified China (22 1 year ago), the policy of "words with the same language and cars with the same track" was implemented, and the policy of unified measurement was under the responsibility of Prime Minister Li Si. On the basis of the seal script originally used by Qin State, he simplified it, canceled six other scripts and created a unified Chinese writing form.

5. Official script: generally speaking, it is developed from seal script, with wide and flat font, long horizontal painting and short vertical painting, and pays attention to "silkworm head and goose tail" and "twists and turns".

6. Cursive script: Formed in the Han Dynasty, it evolved on the basis of official script for the convenience of writing.

7. Regular script: the most popular script in China feudal society from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Jin and Tang Dynasties.

8. Running script: a kind of writing between regular script and cursive script, which appeared in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and was most popular from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Jin and Tang Dynasties.