As early as more than two thousand years ago in the Zhao Dynasty, the characters of Chinese civilization had not been truly unified. Every place has its own writing style, and every Chinese character has its own writing style in different places, although everyone uses hieroglyphics. As an official language, it should be traced back to Oracle Bone Inscriptions. After the sacrifice, God's will and prayer information are engraved on tortoise shells or animal bones. Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions and seal script were all official writing forms a week ago.
During the Warring States period, it was the first time that Qin standardized the writing form of official documents, which had a lot to do with their vigorous promotion of Legalism. Since Qin Xiaogong reused Shang Yang's political reform, Qin has always been a country ruled by law, and there are a large number of official documents everywhere. In the end, most of them will be concentrated in Xianyang, and a large number of documents can't meet the demand with the previous seal script, which is very inefficient. Therefore, officials in various government offices adopted a method called? Official script? ""replaced the seal script. In fact, the appearance of official script is not an official compulsory act, but the invention and creation of low-level officials. So are servants, small officials and handymen.
The development of official script has gone through a long time. This writing form is much easier than seal script, but it is not as beautiful as seal script. From an aesthetic point of view, it can't make the audience happier. Thus, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, these junior officials improved the official script and evolved regular script. In fact, both regular script and official script have a common feature: they are well-behaved and easy to identify. Very standardized, these two words give people the impression that anyone who can read can read, which is very in line with the official requirements.
Jin Dynasty was the first dynasty in the history of China where calligraphy and painting flourished. Many literati pursued a higher aesthetic realm, so many high-quality literati added more personalized writing forms on the basis of regular script: running script and cursive script. In fact, these two writing styles already belong to the art category. When this highly ornamental calligraphy style appeared, ethnic minority officials actually adopted running script as the official writing standard. For example, the best running script in the world is Mo Bao, the first calligraphy left by Wang Xizhi in Jin Dynasty. At that time, the literati class was able to write beautiful running script and cursive script, which was definitely a symbol of status.
In the Tang Dynasty, the development of calligraphy in China reached its peak, and various schools of running script, regular script and cursive script appeared. Calligraphers in the Tang Dynasty promoted China's calligraphy culture to a very high level, especially Liu Gongquan, Chu Suiliang and other high-ranking nobles and central dignitaries. Their calligraphy schools and techniques still affect everyone in China. At this time, the official writing is basically a running script.
In the Yuan and Song Dynasties, the requirements of official script entered a standardized and extensive development. Especially in the Song Dynasty, many calligraphers improved regular script and running script, forming a new form of official script, which was used by the government until the Qing Dynasty.