Calligraphy font is the classification of calligraphy style. There are five kinds of traditional calligraphy fonts: running script font, cursive script font, official script font, seal script font and regular script font, which are five categories. In each category, it is subdivided into several sub-categories. For example, seal script can be divided into big seal script and small seal script, regular script can be divided into Weibei and Tang Kai, and cursive script can be divided into Cao Zhang, Jincao and Crazy Grass.
1, official script style
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". Representative inscriptions include Huashan Monument, Ritual Monument and Cao Quanbei.
2. Seal font
Seal script is a general term for big seal script and small seal script. 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.
3. Regular script
Regular script is also called regular script, real script and official script. This calligraphy form was formed after the establishment of official script and the gradual change of Cheng Miao. Compared with any previous fonts, it tends to be simpler and more horizontal and vertical. This kind of calligraphy began at the end of the Han Dynasty and is still in use today, which can be said to be enduring.
The writing of regular script abides by the laws of Han Li, but it pursues the overall beauty of the font. In the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, this font gradually developed in a rigorous direction. The main feature of regular script is that it is written regularly, which is a regular font among all fonts, so it is still used now.
4. Running script
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".
5. 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.