There are several fonts in calligraphy.

The five major fonts of calligraphy are kai, yin and xing. Grass. Li.

Seal script is a general term for big seal script and small seal script. Dazhuan refers to Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Jinwen, Jinwen and Six Kingdoms, and retains the obvious features of ancient hieroglyphics. Xiao Zhuan, also known as "Qin Zhuan", is the common language of Qin State. In the development history of Chinese characters, it is the transition between seal script and official script. Seal script is the most meaningful and the most difficult to write. A famous seal script works, hanging on the wall, moving. It originated very early and was gradually abandoned in the change of writing, but it still expresses classical beauty and inner beauty with profound connotation and flexible lines. ?

Official script-inner thoughts

In the process of "writing in the same language", Qin Shihuang ordered Li Si to create Xiao Zhuan, and also adopted the official script compiled by Cheng Miao. After seal script, official script is a very beautiful style. And the beauty of Bo and Zhen. The so-called "wave" is that the left line of the stroke is like a meander, and it becomes left in the later regular script; The so-called "stroke" only opens the right pen, which looks like a "dovetail" pen. When writing a long horizontal line, the pen begins to cut into the "silkworm head" facing the front, with the pen in the middle having a wave distance and a tail at the end. Lishu has its own unique ideological content, with soft pen, rigorous composition, serious but not rigid, tall and straight but not stiff. There are thoughts and connotations.

Cursive script-lingering artistic conception

There are three kinds of cursive scripts: Cao Zhang, Modern Cao Cao and Crazy Cao Cao. There are rules to follow in the changes of strokes, such as the urgent chapter of the Three Kingdoms Wu in Songjiang Edition. Today's grass is eclectic and fluent, and its representative works include Wang Xizhi's "The First Moon" and Jin Dynasty's "Getting Time". Mad grass appeared in the Tang Dynasty, represented by Zhang Xu and Huai Su, and its brushwork was wild and uninhibited, which became an artistic creation completely divorced from practicality. From then on, cursive script was only the works of calligraphers imitating Cao Zhang, Cao Jin and Kuangcao. Cursive script is the ultimate simplification of China's calligraphy style, which has strong artistic value. ?

Running script-the track of speed

Running script is a font between regular script and cursive script. Running script was the most famous in Song Dynasty, including Mi Fei, Su Shi and Huang Tingjian of Cai Xiang. The masterpiece Preface to Lanting is the most famous work of Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Predecessors described it as "a dragon descending from heaven, a tiger lying in a phoenix pavilion" and praised it as "the best running script in the world". Tang Yan Zhenqing's book "Sacrificing a Nephew" is very bold, 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 appearance of running script is the result of simplified characters and accelerated speed. ?

Regular script-the feminine taste of the founder

Regular script is a kind of China font, and it is a popular handwritten orthographic Chinese character, which evolved from official script. Also known as block letters. It is a kind of calligraphy with the longest development time in China. Regular script is square and strokes are straight. There were four famous regular script writers in Yuan Dynasty: Ou Yangxun (Ou Ti), Yan Zhenqing (Yan Ti), Liu Gongquan (Liu Ti) and Zhao Mengfu (Zhao Ti). Regular script is generally used as an introductory text, which can follow seal script and play a connecting role.

Calligraphy font is the classification of calligraphy style. There are five traditional calligraphy fonts: seal script font, regular script font, official script font, running script font and cursive 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, Cao Jin and Crazy Grass.

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 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, Cao Jin and Crazy Grass. Feel good in madness.

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".

Seal script is a general term for Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Dazhuan and Xiaozhuan. 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.