Understanding and Feeling of Clerical Script

Clerical Script is a kind of solemn script commonly found in Chinese characters, which is slightly broad and flat, with long horizontal strokes and short straight strokes, and emphasizes "silkworm head and swallow tail" and "one wave and three twists". It originated in the Qin Dynasty and reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and is known in the calligraphic circles as "Han Li and Tang Kai".

The official script is relative to the seal script, the name of which originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The emergence of the official script was another major reform of the Chinese script, which brought the art of Chinese calligraphy into a new realm, and was a turning point in the history of the evolution of Chinese characters, laying the foundation for the Regular Script. The Regular Script is flat, neat and delicate. By the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the skims, presses, dots and other paintings were embellished to be picked upward, with variations of lightness and heaviness, and with the beauty of calligraphic art. The style also tends to be diversified, highly appreciated value of art.

Expanded Information

Clerical Script is said to have been organized by Cheng Miao in prison at the end of the Qin Dynasty, and it was simplified and simplified, with the character shapes changing from round to square and the strokes changing from curved to straight. Change "even pen" for "broken pen", from the line to the stroke, easier to write. The term "隶人" does not mean "prisoner" but "胥吏", i.e., the small official in charge of the paperwork, so in the ancient times the Script of Clerical Script was called "佐书". The script also gave rise to the Cursive, Regular, and Running Script styles, which laid the foundation for the art.

Li Shu is basically an evolution of Seal Script, mainly changing the rounded strokes of Seal Script to square folds, as it is difficult to draw rounded strokes on wooden slips with lacquer, so Li Shu is faster to write.

Variant Clerical Script, also called Clerical Variation. Is the contemporary calligraphy popular scribe style, is for the traditional scribe in terms of writing focus on change, pay attention to the personality of the writing style. The strokes are not standardized, and improvisation is emphasized. However, Fan Xiaoge, a great calligrapher of official script, believes that the variation of official script should become beautiful is the purpose, rather than the more ugly. If everyone pursues to write variant clerical script, then variant clerical script will also appear programmed. He thinks that some variant scribes only pursue big feeling and big effect, and cannot stand the scrutiny on individual characters and individual strokes. Often, they use big momentum to cover up the lack of basic skills.

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