Does China's calligraphy order come first with cursive script or regular script?

The order of China's calligraphy is cursive script first.

the evolution order of Chinese characters is: Oracle Bone Inscriptions --> Jinwen --> Xiao Zhuan --> Official script --> Cursive script --> Regular script --> Running script

1. The cursive script was formed in the early Han Dynasty, which evolved from the official script for the sake of simplicity.

At that time, "Caoli" was commonly used, that is, scribbled official script. Later, it gradually developed and formed a kind of "Zhangcao" with artistic value. Before the Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhi changed "Zhangcao" into "Modern Grass", and the style of characters was formed in one stroke. In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Xu and Huai Su developed into "wild grass" with continuous brushstrokes and varied glyphs.

cursive script is characterized by simple structure and continuous strokes. "Big Grass" and "Little Grass" are symmetrical. Big Grass is purely grass-based, which is difficult to identify. Zhang Xu and Huai Su are good at it, and their words are formed in one stroke, occasionally disconnected, but their veins are constant.

2. Regular script began at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and gradually evolved from the official script founded by Cheng Miao. It is more simplified, square in shape and straight in strokes, which can be used as a model and popular in modern times.

Extended information:

Evolution process of Chinese characters:

China characters-Chinese characters came into being in the late Shang Dynasty in the 14th century BC, when a preliminary stereotyped character, namely Oracle Bone Inscriptions, was formed. Oracle Bone Inscriptions is both an pictograph and a phonetic character. Up to now, there are still some pictographs in Chinese characters, which are very vivid.

in the late western Zhou dynasty, Chinese characters developed into big seal script. Later, Li Si, the prime minister of the Qin Dynasty, simplified the big seal script and changed it to small seal script. However, seal script also has its own fundamental shortcoming, that is, it is very inconvenient to write lines with a pen, so almost at the same time, it also produces an official script with a flat shape on both sides. Almost at the same time, it also produced an official script whose shape was spread to both sides into a flat square.

in the Han dynasty, it reached a mature stage, and the readability and writing speed of Chinese characters were greatly improved. After Li Shu, it evolved into Zhang Cao, and now it is grass. By the Tang Dynasty, there was a wild grass that expressed the writer's thoughts and feelings in the pen. Subsequently, regular script (also known as real script), which was a combination of official script and cursive script, became popular in Tang Dynasty.

the printing style used in modern times is changed from regular script.

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