What are the four regular scripts of China's calligraphy?

Representative figures and works of Lishu:

Jinnong (1687- 1764) is known as the longevity gate and the winter heart. He has dozens of nicknames in his life. He is a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He is knowledgeable and versatile. Poetry and prose works, serious study of ancient times, rich collection, good at traveling, rich in writings. Representative works include Poems in Winter Heart and Prose in Winter Heart.

Representative figures and works of cursive script:

Zhang Xu (about 675-750) was born in Wuxian County (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province) in the Tang Dynasty. He was commander of Changshu County and a long history of Jin Wu. Representative works include Abdominal Pain Sticker and Four Ancient Poems.

Representative figures and works of regular script:

How many representatives are there in regular script? The representative works of Ou (), Yan (Zhenqing), Liu (Gongquan) and Zhao (Dream) are the Inscription of Liquan in Jiucheng Palace, the Pagoda Monument, the Xuanta Monument and the Danba Monument respectively.

Representative figures and works of running script:

The most famous running script is Preface to Lanting written by Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Predecessors described it as "a dragon flying from heaven, a tiger lying in a phoenix" and praised it as "the best running script in the world".

In the Tang Dynasty, Yan Zhenqing's "Sacrificing a Nephew" was bold and unconstrained, and the ancients rated it as "the second running script in the world". Su Shi's Huangzhou Cold Food Sticker is called "the third running script in the world". The famous representative work in the running script is Lushan Temple Monument written by Li Yong in Tang Dynasty, which is fluent and rich.

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official script

Lishu, also called Han Li, is a solemn font commonly used in Chinese characters. Its writing effect is slightly wide and flat, the horizontal painting is long and straight, and it is rectangular, paying attention to "silkworm head and goose tail" and "twists and turns". Lishu originated in the Qin Dynasty and was compiled by Cheng Miao. It reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which had a great influence on later calligraphy. Calligraphy is called "Tang Kai of Han Li".

For example, the memorial tablet of Confucius Temple made by Xiang and Han Xu is also called the tablet of Confucius Temple in Hanming House, the tablet of Xu Shifa and the tablet of Han Xu. Han Yongshou two years (156), official script. Length 227.2 cm, width 102.4 cm. Confucius Temple in Qufu, Shandong Province. There is no amount. Carved on all sides, all official script. There are sixteen lines of stele Yang, with 36 characters. At the end of the text, there are nine titles such as Han Xu. There are inscriptions on the body and sides of the tablet.

regular script

Regular script is also called regular script, real script and official script. Li Shu, founded by Cheng Miao, has gradually evolved and become more simplified and level. Regular script has the meaning of model, which was first mentioned in Zhang Huaiguan's Shu Duan.

People in the Six Dynasties still used it habitually, such as Yang Xin's Cai, and On the Biography of Wei Shou, saying, "Shou is a general, and Jingzhao people are good at regular script." That's the abbreviation of "eight-block method", which didn't replace the name of the official book until the Northern Song Dynasty, and its content was obviously different from the ancient name. There is probably an example of the above.

Semi-cursive/running/calligraphy (China's calligraphy)

Running script is developed and originated on the basis of official script, which produces a font between regular script and cursive script to make up for the slow writing speed of regular script and the fuzziness 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".

cursive script

Cursive script is a font of Chinese characters, which is characterized by simple structure and continuous strokes. Formed in the Han Dynasty, it evolved on the basis of official script for the convenience of writing. There are Cao Zhang, modern grass and weeds, and it feels beautiful in madness. "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" says: "There are cursive scripts in Han Xing". The cursive script began in the early Han dynasty, and its characteristics are: keeping the outline of characters, damaging the official rules, rushing away and rushing away quickly. Because of the meaning of grass, it is called cursive script.

Seal character

Seal script is a general term for big seal script and small seal script. Oracle Bone Inscriptions, 3000 years ago, is the earliest recognizable writing handed down, mainly used for divination. The brushwork is thin and powerful, with many straight lines. There are Fang Bi, round pen and sharp pen, and there are many "hanging needles" for writing. Big seal script refers to inscriptions on bronze inscriptions, bronzes and six-country scripts, which retain the obvious characteristics of ancient hieroglyphics. Xiao Zhuan, also known as "Qin Zhuan", is a commonly used character in Qin State and a simplified font of Da Zhuan, which is characterized by uniform and neat glyphs and is easier to write than Wen Shu.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Calligraphy Style