What are the four styles of Chinese Calligraphy?

The four styles of Chinese calligraphy refer to "Zheng, Cursive, Clerical and Seal Script".

Calligraphy is a kind of traditional culture and art unique to China, and it is the crystallization of the wisdom of the working people of our country. It started as a pictorial form of writing, and then after thousands of years of development, it finally evolved into today's writing, because our ancestors invented writing with brushes, and so calligraphy was derived from it. Although other forms of writing have emerged in later periods, such as hard-copy calligraphy and finger-printing, there is also a convergence of their writing rules compared with the brush characters.

China's calligraphy is customarily divided into ? Zheng Zheng? Cursive? Clerical? Seal script? The four styles of calligraphy in China are: the official script here refers not only to the regular script, but also to the Wei Bei;

Cursive script refers to the wild grass represented by Zhang Xu and Huaisu, and also refers to the large grass, and also includes the small grass, which is a more standardized form of cursive script than the wild grass and is represented by Sun Touting's "The Book of the Scripts" of the Tang Dynasty; besides, there is also a kind of hasty writing of the official script, which is known as zhang cao, and the one in between the grass and the official script is called the running script;

Classical script arose in the late Qin and early Han Dynasty, which was mainly used for copying official documents. At the end of Qin and the beginning of Han Dynasty, it was mainly used for copying official documents, which was simple and convenient, and later it was also used for writing inscriptions and cliff carvings;

Seal Script is a general term for the oracle bone script, the bell and ding, the stone drum and the small seal script.

Regular Script is represented by Ouyang Xun's Inscription of Sweet Spring in the Palace of Nine Chengs, Yan Zhenqing's Record of the Temple of the Immortals in Magu, and Liu Gongquan's Tablet of the Army of Divine Strategies

Wei-Bei is represented by the Tablet of Duke Zheng Wenzheng

Cursive Script is represented not only by the above mentioned, but also by the Seventeen Postings by Wang Xizhi, by the works of Huang Tingjian and Mi Fu of the Song Dynasty, and by the works of Wen Zhengming, Zhu Yunming, and Zhang Ruitu of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Duo, Xu Wei and other calligraphers.

Running script is represented by Wang Xizhi's Lanting Preface, Yan Zhenqing's Manuscript of Offering to a Nephew, Su Dongpo, Mi Fu and other calligraphers.

Clerical Script is represented by the Rites of Passage Stele, Cao Quan Stele, and Zhang Qian Stele in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which were followed by the emergence of a number of very accomplished calligraphers, such as Jin Nong, Yi Bingshou, and He Shaoji.