What are the Chinese character fonts?

Nowadays, Simplified Chinese is used in mainland China and Traditional Chinese is used in Taiwan.

1. Seal Script.

Seal Script is the collective name for the Big Seal Script and the Small Seal Script. The writing style is thin and strong, with more straight lines. There are square strokes, round strokes and pointed strokes, with more "hanging needles" in the handwriting. The Big Seal Script refers to the Golden Script, Pre-Han Script, and the Six Nations Script, which preserve the distinctive features of ancient hieroglyphic scripts.

2. Cursive script.

Formed in the Han Dynasty, cursive script evolved on the basis of the official script for the sake of writing simplicity. Characterized by the structure of simple, continuous strokes. Cursive Script is divided into Zhang Cao and Jin Cao, and Jin Cao is divided into Da Cao (also known as Fan Cao) and Xiao Cao, which feels beautiful in the midst of the frenzy.

3. Yan Style.

Yan style, also called Yan Shu, Yan Shu style, is a new style of Chinese calligraphy, created by contemporary calligrapher Ma Yongan. Yan Style is a new style of Chinese calligraphy created by contemporary calligrapher Ma Yong'an. Yan Style, like the brush showing the front, closing the brush out of the front, using the brush in the center, taking the right side down, not only inherits the traditional calligraphy, but also has a difference from the traditional calligraphy, presenting a distinctive new calligraphy style personality style.

4, regular script.

Regular Script, also known as regular script, true script, positive script. Gradually evolved from the official script, more simplified, horizontal and vertical. The Dictionary explains that it is "square in form, with straight and level strokes, and can be used as a model". This kind of Chinese character font upright, is the modern popular Chinese character handwritten orthographic characters.

5. Clerical script.

According to the excavated documents, the official script was first created in the Qin Dynasty, and legend has it that Cheng Miao made the official script, and the official script of the Han Dynasty reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty, bearing the tradition of the seal script, and opening up the Wei and Jin Dynasties and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, which had a great influence on the calligraphy of the later generations, and it is known in the calligraphy circles as the "Han Clerical Script and Tang Regular Script".

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