What are the most common fonts used in calligraphy?

The highly abstract nature of the art form of Calligraphy determines its symbolic expression of spiritual emotions. Do you know what are the most common calligraphy fonts? Below I bring you the common calligraphy fonts, hope you like it.

Calligraphy Fonts

Calligraphy Fonts 1_Regular Script

Calligraphy Fonts 2_Running Script

Calligraphy Fonts 3_Cursive Script

Calligraphy Fonts 4_Clerical Script

Calligraphy Fonts 5_Seal Script

Calligraphy Fonts

Seal Script

Script was created in China during the pre-Qin Fuxi period. Archaeologists argue that it was oracle bone inscriptions carved on tortoise shells and animal bones. Because it was used for divination, predicting good and bad luck, it was called "divination". However, it already has the basic elements of Chinese calligraphy: brushwork, structure, chapter and so on. During the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, the inscriptions cast on the bells, tripods, and Yi vessels, also known as "Zhong Ding Wen" (钟鼎文), were widely popular. After the Qin Shihuang Da Tong, collectively known as the "Small Seal Script", also known as "Qin Seal Script", the so-called seal script, in fact, is the Puisne Script, is the official book. Is a standardized official documents common font. According to the literature. Before the Qin Dynasty, there is no specialized name for the Chinese character script. And the small seal script was gradually evolved from the Qin script in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods. Since it is an official script. Small Seal Script is only suitable for grand occasions. For example, to memorize the merits of carving stones. The Shuji edict plate. Soldier tiger talisman and so on. The style of the seal script is neatly arranged. The strokes are rounded. The lines are even and long.

presents a solemn and beautiful style. Compared with the oracle bone script and jinwen, it has some basic features: the character shape is long. And the tight drawings are drawn downward. It is a visual illusion that the upper part is dense and the lower part is sparse. This is also related to the top-down layout of the chapter. The lines are well-proportioned regardless of the length of the dots and strokes. Strokes are thick and thin uniform state. This in strength. Speed is very even stroke. Give people a pure and simple aesthetic sense of these two characteristics. In addition, the structure of the script tends to be simple and fixed. The layout of the chapters of the Small Seal Script can form a sequence of vertical and horizontal lines. There is a difference between the round and square strokes of the Qin Seal Script. The round brush is represented by the Qin engraved stone. The square brush is represented by the Qin imperial copyright. It is the common style of Qin Seal Script. During the Han and Wei Dynasties, the Qin Seal Script was at the end of its strength. Except for the inscription of seal script and the mark of artifacts, it is rare to have an independent seal script. It is rare to have an independent seal script. Tang Seal Script. Because Li Yangbing came out and revived the Qin Seal Script, the richness and grandeur of the Qin Seal Script has disappeared. Song dynasty jinshi science and Yuan dynasty retro style of calligraphy. The use of the right seal script was able to start a slight tide. There are many people who are famous for seal script, but there is a lack of power to surpass it. The Ming dynasty inherited the Yuan style. The pace tends to be flat. Qing Dynasty Seal Script is a colorful and colorful. Entered a stage of great prosperity to push the Tang Dynasty beyond the Qin Dynasty.

Big Seal Script

The Big Seal Script was first followed by the Small Seal Script. As early as sixty years ago, the symbols engraved on pottery and the pictures depicting objects had the prototype of writing, followed by the hieroglyphic (pictorial) characters produced in the long development. Three thousand years ago, the Yin and Shang dynasties, in the tortoise shell and animal bones on the inscription of the text, that is, "oracle bone script", calligraphy is fine and straight, the strokes are not staccato light and heavy. Shang and Zhou dynasties, the emergence of cast in the bells, tripods, currency, weapons and other bronze inscriptions called "Jinwen" or "Zhong Dingwen". Calligraphy tends to be neat, the style is rounded and thick, and the character shape is rich and varied. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, the characters engraved on stone gui and stone drums were called Shi Gu Wen. The strokes are strong and heavy, the form is slightly square, and the style is elegant and steep. The above mentioned oracle bone, gold text, stone drum script, the Qin Dynasty called the big seal script.

Small Seal Character

In 221 BC, Qin Shi Huang unified China. It was organized by the Prime Minister Li Si, who simplified and unified the font, which was later called "Small Seal Script". Small Seal Script is slightly long and neat, and the strokes are rounded and beautiful. (2) Representatives The originator of the Small Seal Script, Li Si, was a native of Shangcai (present-day Shangcai County, Henan Province) during the Warring States period. He later became the prime minister of Qin Dynasty, and organized and formulated the standard seal script of Qin Dynasty. The Yishan Stele, now in the Xi'an Stele Forest, was copied in the Song Dynasty. Most of the inscribed stones have been destroyed. Only two of the original stones have survived

Representatives

Li Si, born in an unknown year, died in the second year of the Second Qin Dynasty (208 B.C.). He was a Qin statesman and calligrapher. He was a native of Shangcai in the state of Chu, north of present-day Runan County in Henan Province. He studied the art of empire with Xunqing, a famous Confucian scholar of the Warring States period, and later submitted the "Letter of Remonstrance against the Evicted Guests", which was highly utilized by Emperor Qin Shi Huang. After the unification of the world by the First Emperor of Qin, Li Si became the prime minister to help the First Emperor of Qin to set up the county system. He also wrote seven chapters of Cangjie, which changed the Big Seal Script into the Small Seal Script to unify the writing system and put an end to the heterogeneity of the writing system since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, laying the foundation of the development of the Chinese characters in the Square Characters of today. It is rumored that all the gold and stone carvings of the Qin Dynasty came from the hand of Li Si. The gold carvings were entitled, measured, and edict plates, and the stone carvings were on Yishan, Taishan, Langya Terrace, Zhifu f? All of them are in the standard form of the small seal script. Li Si was later falsely accused by Zhao Gao and beheaded in Xianyang at the age of about seventy. The Qin Dynasty, in which Li Si lived, was an important period in China's history. Qin Shi Huang destroyed the six kingdoms and unified the world, sweeping away the chaos of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. As a result, the Qin Dynasty had the well-known seven unifications, of which writing was one of the most important, and Li Si's Small Seal Script was the crystallization of the writing of the eight states based on the original seal script of the Qin Dynasty. Therefore, the most famous calligraphy of the Qin Dynasty is the stone inscriptions written in the style of the Qin Small Seal Script. The dignified and solemn Qin inscriptions reveal the Qin Empire under the centralized and authoritarian rule. The unification of the Qin state was very powerful, and this was reflected in the writing style. Therefore, the lines of the Qin Small Seal Script are characterized by euphemistic and rounded strokes, and the thickness of the dots and the fineness of the strokes are required to be well proportioned. In terms of physical characteristics, the Qin Small Seal Script has a relatively fixed pen shape, and there is a certain regularity in the contraction of its broken strokes. Therefore, when dots are combined with curves and straight lines to form glyphs, they are also characterized by symbolism. However, with the passage of time and choice, the Qin Small Seal Script, which was used for special occasions, was not incorporated into the orbit of the change of Chinese characters' forms, but was separated from it, and became a kind of 'hall-style' script, used for the court, temples, mausoleums, and even for seal marks on tablets. and even for seal inscriptions. Therefore, it is worth noting that although the Qin Small Seal Script is outside the realm of practical use, its 'continuity' in the history of Chinese calligraphy has made it occupy a very prominent position in the entire history of Chinese calligraphy. After Qin Shi Huang unified the eight kingdoms, he went on a tour in the following year, and on his way to Zou Yishan (also known as Yishan Mountain), the first stone carved on Yishan was the Yishan Stone Carving. Because of the age, the original stone has been anonymous, there is no topography survives. There are only two copies of the topography, one for the Song Chunhua four years (A.D. 993 years), Zheng Wenbao according to the Southern Tang Dynasty, Xu Xun copy re-engraved in Chang'an, "Chang'an this gas and the other for the Yuan Dynasty, Shen Tu team according to Zheng Wenbao re-engraved in Shaoxing, "Shaoxing this gas these topography of the handwriting and the existing Taishan carved stone, Langyadai carved stone is slightly different, and add a touch of interest. Its strokes are more like "jade chopsticks gas uniform thickness, rounded and straight, the structure of the dignified, heavy, slightly better than other carvings.

The regular script

Zheng Daozhao (? ~516) was a poet and calligrapher of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The character Xi Bo. Xingyang Kaifeng (now part of Henan). Northern Wei Minister Zheng Xi's youngest son. When Emperor Xiaowen, the official to pass straight scattered riding standing minister. In the 19th year of Taihe (495), he accompanied Emperor Xiaowen on his southern expedition, and his gourd and ministers sang together in a song, which became a popular story. In the early days of Emperor Xuanwu, he moved to be the Secretary Supervisor, but because of his younger brother Zheng Sihe's involvement, he was sent out to be the Assassin of Guangzhou, and then to be the Assassin of Qingzhou. Later, he was reappointed as the Secretary Supervisor. After his death, he was posthumously awarded the title of General of Zhenbei and the title of Assassin of Xiangzhou, posthumously awarded the title of Wen Gong.

Zheng Daozhao was one of the more accomplished poets in the Northern Dynasties when literature began to emerge. His poems are long in writing scenery, a little bit clean and elegant, and the style is similar to Xie Lingyun and Bao Zhuo in the Southern Dynasty, unlike other Northern Dynasty poets who imitated Qi and Liang. For example, in "Discussing the Scriptures with Taoists and laymen on Cloud Peak Mountain, nine miles southeast of Lai City", "The double queues are open to the Han Dynasty, and the rainbow haunts the river; the birds in the streams are lost in the morning, and the birds in the sinuses pass by in an urgent manner", and in "Climbing to Cloud Peak Mountain to View the Sea and Islands", "The mountain tour is pleasing to the eye, and the view of the Cang Dynasty overlooks the white sands", the writing is strong and powerful, and there is a greater sense of vigor and momentum. His article, two are chapter table, not very distinctive, only "Tianzhushan Ming" is still literary.

Wei Shu? Zheng Xi with Daozhao biography" said he "good for poetry and fugue, where dozens of articles", but today only four poems, three articles. The collection of Lu Qinli's poetry of the first Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, and North and South Dynasties and Yan Kejun's text of the whole of the last three generations, Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms, and Six Dynasties.

Zheng Daozhao like to cultivate the body, refining qi Dan, was in the first year of Yanchang (512 years) in Laizhou Daji Mountain in accordance with the car, west, south, north, and in the virtual set up the "Green Smoke Temple", "Baiyundang", "Song Yangtai", "Xuan Ling Palace", "Zhongming altar" and other refining place, and engraved words of the record, and also made a "set the immortal altar poem" inscribed on the wall. From then on, Laizhou Yunfeng Mountain, Daji Mountain, greatly increased the glory, famous all over the world. Glittering stone carvings, so that the travelers at home and abroad aspire to.

Also known as the "true book", "the book"

The official script

The full name of the "Han Lu Xiang Han Li made the Confucian temple rituals monument", also known as the "Han Mingfu Confucius Temple monument into the Lu Xiang Han Li to Yan's Carefree Hair monument, "Han Li monument," and so on. Carved in the second year of Han Yongshou (156), in clerical script. Vertical 227.2 centimeters, horizontal 102.4 centimeters. Hidden in the Temple of Confucius, Qufu, Shandong. No forehead. Inscribed on all four sides, all in clerical script. Sixteen lines on the Yang side of the stele, with thirty-six characters on each line, followed by the names of nine people, including Han Qianchao. Tablet yin and both sides of the title.

This monument since the Song Dynasty to date the most recorded, is a piece of calligraphy artistry is very high, and has always been regarded as the extreme rules of the official script. Clerical Script: The style of calligraphy is fine, strong and robust, strict and precipitous, square and beautiful at the same time. The second half of the stele and the shadow of the stele are the best part of the work. The artistic value is extremely high. It has always been regarded as one of the classics of Han steles. Ming Guo Zongchang's "History of Golden Stones" commented: ? When the Han Clerical Script is the first one, it should be the "Confucius Temple Ritual Tablet", which is the first one. The first one is the "Confucius Temple Ritual Tablet", which is the first of its kind. The word painting of the wonderful, non-pen and non-hand, ancient and elegant before, if the divine work, not by man-made, so-called? Star flow electricity, fiber over the plant hair? It is not yet enough to describe it. Han all monument conjugation life meaning, all can be imitated, only this monument such as the river Han, can not be expected. Qing dynasty Wang Shu "virtual boat title trek" comment cloud:? Clerical law to the Han as a strange, each monument out of a strange, there is no same; and this monument is particularly strange, thin and strong as iron, change as a dragon, a word a strange, can not be recognized. And also said, ? Only the "Han" no beauty is not prepared, that is clear and super but also Thucydides, that is Thucydides but also Su Su. Since the division of scribes, there has been no such monument that is so superb and marvelous. Yang Shoujing of the Qing Dynasty also said: ? Han Clerical, such as the "opening of the Baozhi Road", "Yang Jun Shimen Ode" and so on, to win the temperament; "Jingjun", "Lu Jun", "Fenglongshan" and so on, to form the quality of the winners; both of which can only be pushed to this monument. To discuss, in the strange and dangerous in Ping Zheng, in the sparse and beautiful in the tight, so it is difficult. ("flat tablet record") this tablet word mouth intact, the tablet side of the word front as new, especially elegant and colorful, vertical and horizontal iterative Tang, more books of the appreciation of the writer. Those who attacked the Han Clerical Script, more to the "Rites of Passage" as a model.

Ritual Tablet transmitted by a lot of topography. Ming Tuo broken properly hanging, no time to write down a word, and lead on the foot to make long, and is a monument? The year? The word "year" is different.

Running Script

"Lanting Preface" is the right general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Xizhi, 51 years of age of the pen, describes him and many of the dynasty's dignitaries, writers and ink masters gathered in the Lanting, the spectacular scene of the repair of the matter also, expressing his lament for the life and death of the people, the repair of the short and the evolution of the sigh. Under the lofty mountains and high peaks, the side of lush forests and bamboos, riding on the wine, waving the brush and ink, for the crowd of poems and assignments into the preface, the article is fresh and beautiful, the calligraphy is robust and elegant. The calligraphy was fresh and beautiful. It was regarded as the best of the best by the calligraphy circles of the past generations. Mi Fu, a great calligrapher of the Song Dynasty, called it? The First Post of Chinese Running Script? Therefore, Wang Xizhi was also honored as the Sage of Calligraphy. The Sage of Calligraphy. Later generations have praised him a lot when studying his calligraphy: "The dots and strokes are beautiful, and the flow of the lines is smooth. The dots and drawings are beautiful, and the lines are fluent. The wind comes out of his sleeves, and the moon goes into his sleeves. The breeze comes out of the sleeve, the moon enters the bosom? The wind comes out of his sleeves and the moon enters his heart. Floating like a floating cloud, as if it were a dragon? The colors of the brush and the brushstrokes are so beautiful that they are unparalleled. "The most powerful and robust, unmatched in the world. The most beautiful and powerful of them all, unmatched in any generation. The Lanting Preface is a masterpiece of the ancient and modern worlds. Indeed, Legend has it that Wang Xizhi later also had re-written the "Lanting Preface", but are inferior to the original, so the "Lanting Preface" manuscript has been for Wang Xizhi as a family heirloom, for the Wang's descendants collection, passed on to the seventh generation of Wang Xizhi was Tang Taizong Li Shimin? Li Shimin, the seventh generation of Wang Xizhi. Into the court, tang tai zong got "lanting sequence", had edict famous hand Zhao die, Feng Chengsu, Yu Shinan, Chu Sui Liang, etc. Hook facsimile several copies of the real, divided into the gift of the pro-prime ministers, and after the folk are also widely copied, but none better than the king's original work, so "lanting sequence" real works of the tang tai zong regarded as a rare treasures and ultimately martyred, which makes the later generations of the original work of the "lanting sequence" venerated, the crown of the first post of the Chinese calligraphy of the name of the beauty of the real The name of the first post of Chinese calligraphy is really indisputable.

Cursive style

Huai Su (725-785), the word Zang Zhen, commonly known as Qian, Yongzhou Zuoling (present-day Zuoling, Hunan) people. He was known for his? He was known for his "Wild Cursive Script". He was famous in the world. Since his childhood, he became a monk, and in the spare time of Zen, he loved calligraphy, and practiced calligraphy diligently, picking banana leaves to practise calligraphy, using wooden boards as paper, and the boards wore out the leaves, and the bald pens became mounds, and then the pens walked like dragons and snakes and filled the paper with clouds and smoke, and the princes and celebrities loved to get acquainted with this mad monk. Lu Gong (Yan Zhenqing) also for the heart of the fold, and the teacher every day, brushwork, gained a lot. His temperament is relaxed, good wine, wine sound Xing Fa, in the temple wall wall, clothes and utensils, all the book, said? Drinking wine to nourish the nature, cursive writing to free the will? He was known as Zhang Xu, and together they were called? Zhang Xu, together known as? Huaisu cursive writing, penmanship thin and strong, flying natural, such as the rain whirlwind, with the hand of ten thousand changes. Although his calligraphy is rash, upside down, changing, but the law has. Huai Su and Zhang Xu formed the twin peaks of Tang Dynasty calligraphy, which are also two unattainable peaks in the history of Chinese cursive writing. Heirloom calligraphy has "self narrative post", "bitter bamboo shoots post", "eat fish post", "mother post", "on the book post", "big grass a thousand words", "small grass a thousand words" post. Among them, the "eating fish post" is extremely thin, strong bones, strict and calm. And "self narrative post" its book due to different moods with the book "eating fish post", charm swing. It is really a masterpiece of each. Mi Fu's "Review of Haiyue's Calligraphy" reads: "Huai Su is like a strong warrior who has a sword in his hand. Huai Su is like a strong man dialing a sword, the divine color is moving, and the maneuvering in and out, nothing is not in the middle of the section. The Tang Dynasty poets have praised, such as Li Bai, "Cursive Script Song Line", Man Ji, "Cursive Script Song of Huaisu".