What are the 5 fonts of Clerical Script?

The 5 fonts of Clerical Script:

I. Qin Clerical

Qin Clerical is a transitional font from the Small Seal Script to the present day Clerical Script, and also a transitional font from the age of ancient script to the age of present day script, which is rumored to have been created by Cheng Miao. It is characterized by turning the uniform lines of equal thickness of the Small Seal Script into straight and angular strokes of horizontal, vertical, apostrophe, downward, picking, and hooking, which makes it much easier to write with a pen.

For example, the round strokes of the small seal script are difficult to write, but the ancient scribe turns them into flat and square fields, which are much easier to write. And it gave up the hieroglyphic form that the small seal script drew along with the object.

This transformed the hieroglyphic and ideographic characters that existed before the Qin Dynasty into ideographic and phonetic characters, and helped to finalize the shape of the Chinese characters that had existed for more than 2,000 years since then.

Second, the Han Clerical Script

Because of the East Han Dynasty inscriptions on the Clerical Script, the strokes are vivid, and the styles are varied, while the Tang Dynasty Clerical Script, the words are more stereotyped, known as "Tang Clerical Script". Therefore, learn to write the official script of the Eastern Han Dynasty inscriptions, the various styles of official script of this period is specially called "Han Li", in order to distinguish it from "Tang Li".

Han Li is characterized by: wave limbs, prominent horizontal painting, horizontal and vertical. Gives a person a sense of male free and unrestrained, thick and deep, such as "Cao Quanbei", "Zhang Qianbei", "Ritual Tablet" and so on.

Three, eight points of the book

Eight points is also known as the Regular Clerical. Its font like scribe and body more wave limbs. It is said to have been made by Wang Zizhong of Shanggu in Qin Dynasty.

On the naming of the eight points, there have been different opinions, or thought that the two points are like the official script and the eight points are like the seal script, so it is called the eight points; or thought that the waves and folds of the official script of the Han Dynasty are separated to the left and right, and "gradually like the eight points of dispersion", so it is called the eight points.

Four, grass-affiliated

Grass-affiliated, also known as scribe grass, is the scribe's cursive writing style, popular in the latter Han Dynasty to the Western Jin Dynasty, characterized by the storage of scribe's meaning, but fewer staccato, more rounded even belonging to. But it is not strictly chapter grass, grass, recently unearthed in the northwest of the Han and Jin dynasties on the documents can often see this style of writing.

Since the 1980s, calligraphy seeks new changes, so the grass and scribe trend again, a variety of schools, representative of Cui Xuelu, Zhang Hai and so on.

Fifth, Wei Li

Wei Li is a junction between Wei Bei and Han Li, prevalent in the Three Kingdoms Cao Wei period. Its character form is basically inherited from the Han Li, but there are some changes in the structure.

It is characterized by a more square and neat than the Han Clerical, and the form and strokes are more reserved than the Han Clerical, so it lacks the natural charm of the Han Clerical, which is ancient and elegant.