There are several fonts in China's calligraphy.

There are not eight fonts in China's calligraphy, but only five fonts, namely:

1, official script:

Lishu is a Chinese font, including Qin Lishu and Han Li. It is generally believed that it is developed from seal script, with wide and flat font, long horizontal painting and short vertical painting, and pays attention to "swallow tail of silkworm head" and "twists and turns".

2. In italics:

Regular script is also called regular script, regular script, original script and official script. It gradually evolved from official script, becoming more simplified and more horizontal and vertical. The book Ci Hai is interpreted as "square in shape and straight in brushwork, which can be used as a model". This kind of Chinese character has the correct font and is a modern popular handwritten orthographic Chinese character.

3, seal script:

Seal script, that is, a highly pictographic character; The font before official script. Seal script is divided into big seal script and small seal script. Xiao Zhuan is a masterpiece of calligraphy by Li Si, the prime minister of Qin State. It is also the font used by Qin Shihuang to implement the same book.

4, cursive script:

Cursive script has two meanings: wide and narrow. In a broad sense, regardless of the age, all scribbled words are regarded as cursive. Narrow sense, that is, as a specific font, was formed in the Han Dynasty and evolved on the basis of official script in order to write simply.

5. Run the script:

Running scripts can be divided into running scripts and running scripts. It is developed and originated on the basis of regular script, and it is a font between regular script and cursive script, which is produced to make up for the slow writing speed of regular script and the illegibility of cursive script.