What are the five fonts of Chinese characters?

The five major fonts of Chinese characters belong to ancient Chinese characters.

1, seal script. Seal script is a general term for big seal script and small seal script. The brushwork is thin and powerful, with many straight lines. There are Fang Bi, round pen and sharp pen, and there are many "hanging needles" for writing. Big seal script refers to inscriptions on bronze inscriptions, bronzes and six-country scripts, which retain the obvious characteristics of ancient hieroglyphics.

2, cursive script. Formed in the Han Dynasty, it evolved on the basis of official script for the convenience of writing. It is characterized by simple structure and continuous strokes. The cursive script is divided into Cao Zhang and today's grass, and today's grass is divided into big grass (also called crazy grass) and small grass, which feels beautiful in madness.

3. color body. Yan Style, also known as Yan Shu and Yan Shu Style, is a new style of China calligraphy initiated by contemporary calligrapher Ma Yongan. Yan's style is like a pen, revealing the front, using the pen in the middle, and taking the momentum from the lower right. It not only inherits the traditional calligraphy, but also differs from the traditional calligraphy, showing a distinctive new calligraphy style.

4. Regular script. Regular script is also called regular script, real script and official script. It gradually evolved from official script, becoming more simplified and more horizontal and vertical. Ci Hai is interpreted as "square, straight and exemplary". This kind of Chinese character has the correct font and is a modern popular handwritten orthographic Chinese character.

5. Official script. According to the unearthed bamboo slips, official script originated in Qin Dynasty, and Cheng Miao was also called official script. Han Li reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty, inherited the tradition of seal script, and opened the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, which had a great influence on later calligraphy. The calligraphy circle is known as "Tang Kai of Han Li".