When did Chinese calligraphy start?

The order of precedence is: Official Script, Cursive Script, Regular Script and Running Script.

I. Clerical Script was first created in the Qin Dynasty and developed from Seal Script. There are Qin Clerical Script and Han Clerical Script. The Han Clerical Script reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty, inheriting the tradition of seal script from above, and opening up to the Wei, Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties.

II. Cursive Script was formed in the Han Dynasty and evolved on the basis of the official script for the sake of writing simplicity.

The Regular Script evolved gradually from the Clerical Script, more simplified, horizontal and vertical.

Four, running script is a general term, divided into two kinds of regular script and running cursive. It developed on the basis of the origin of the Regular Script, between the Regular Script, Cursive Script, a typeface, in order to make up for the Regular Script writing speed is too slow and Cursive Script is difficult to recognize and produce.

Relationship with each other:

I. Mutual inheritance relationship.

The cursive script evolved on the basis of the clerical script; the regular script evolved gradually from the clerical script; and the running script developed on the basis of the regular script

The second relationship is based on each other.

Such as running script is based on the development of the regular script, but at the same time absorbed the characteristics of the cursive.

Three, each with the passage of time, and have their own evolution.

For example, the development of cursive script can be divided into three major stages: early cursive script, Zhangcao and present cursive script.

1, the early cursive is parallel to the official script, generally known as the official grass, in fact, mixed with some of the seal grass form.

2. Zhang Cao is an elegant cursive style which is a blend of early cursive and Han Clerical Script.

3, the present grass, is the chapter of grass to exhaust the wave of pick and evolve, the present cursive style since the Wei and Jin dynasties after the prevalence of never-ending.

4, to the Tang Dynasty, the grass is written in a more indulgent, continuous pen around, the word shape of a hundred strange, known as the "wild grass", also known as the grass.

5. Today, the aesthetic value of cursive writing far exceeds its practical value.

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