The artistic form of Chinese characters

The artistic forms of Chinese characters mainly include calligraphy, seal cutting, artistic characters, artistic characters and so on.

First, calligraphy:

Calligraphy can be divided into China calligraphy, Mongolian calligraphy and Arabic calligraphy. Among them, China's calligraphy is a unique traditional art of Chinese characters in China, and it is known as poetry without words, invisible dance and no pictures. It can be used in font design, stone carving, pattern design and many other aspects. Calligraphy is a unique traditional art in China.

Chinese characters in China were created by working people and began to be recorded by pictures. After thousands of years of development, it has evolved into today's writing. Because our ancestors invented the brush, calligraphy came into being. Throughout the ages, Chinese characters were mainly written with a brush. As for other writing forms, such as hard pen and finger calligraphy, their writing rules are basically the same, but they are not completely different from China's calligraphy.

Second, the seal cutting:

Seal cutting is one of the traditional arts in China. Refers to the art of carving seals. Seal cutting is called seal cutting because it is done on the printing material first and then engraved. Generally carved with a knife on stones, teeth, horns, wood and other printed matter; For metal seals, the mold is carved first and then cast. Qin seal and Han seal are recognized as the source of seal cutting, and many seal cutting schools appeared in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Third, calligraphy:

Artistic figures are processed, beautified and decorated figures. It is a kind of writing art that beautifies characters by decorative means, and it is a practical font for artistic processing. The font is neat, eye-catching and easy to identify, which is an indispensable tool for publicity and education. For example, banners and slogans, exhibitions, commodity packaging and decoration, newspaper, magazine and book mounting are all inseparable from calligraphy.

Fourth, artistic words:

Artistic characters are deformed fonts based on ordinary characters and artistically processed by professional font designers. Font features conform to the meaning of words, beautiful and interesting, easy to identify, eye-catching, etc. It is a kind of font deformation with pattern meaning or decorative meaning. Artistic characters can reasonably deform and modify the strokes and structure of Chinese characters according to their meaning, shape and structural characteristics.