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Which style of Chinese calligraphy is the most beautiful?

The most beautiful clock fonts are Yan style, thin gold style, regular script, running cursive, Xing Kai, imitation Song style, cursive script, Song style, Wei style, and official script.

1. Yan style, also called Yan script or Yan style, is a new style of Chinese calligraphy created by contemporary calligrapher Ma Yongan.

2. The thin gold style was created by Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty. It is an original creation in the history of calligraphy.

The writing style of the thin gold body is erratic and fast, and the handwriting is thin and strong, even thin without losing its flesh. The hidden front can be clearly seen at the turning point.

3. Regular script is also called Zhengkai, Zhenshu and Zhengshu.

It gradually evolved from the official script and became more simplified, horizontal and vertical.

"Cihai" explains that it has "a square shape and straight strokes, which can be used as a model."

4. Running script, a calligraphy and calligraphy style between running script and cursive script, can be said to be the cursive version of running script or the linear version of cursive script.

5. Xingkai, also known as "Chinese Xingkai handwriting font", is a running script font that emphasizes the writing style (rules) of regular script, which is more free than regular script and more regular than running cursive.

6. Imitation Song style, a relatively elegant and straight font that adopts Song style structure and regular script strokes. The strokes are evenly thick horizontally and vertically. It is often used for printing subtitles, short poems, annotations, quotations, etc.

7. Cursive script, a type of Chinese character font, is characterized by simple structure and continuous strokes.

It was formed in the Han Dynasty and evolved on the basis of official script for the convenience of writing.

8. Songti, a Chinese character font that appeared to adapt to printing technology.

The strokes vary in thickness, and are generally thin horizontally and thick vertically, with decorative parts (i.e. "foots" or "serifs") at the ends.

9. Wei style running script, that is, Wei style running script.

It retains the basic features of Wei stele such as square or round pens, strict and simple knotting, and at the same time, the writing is bold and vigorous, and the spirit is flying, making it have the characteristics of running script.

At first glance, it seems very contradictory and impossible, but our ancestors used their excellent practice to provide a perfect solution.

10. Official script, Qin Li and Han Li, developed from seal script. The characters are mostly wide and flat, with long horizontal strokes and short vertical strokes. They pay attention to "silkworm heads and swallow tails" and "twists and turns".

According to the unearthed slips, official script was founded in the Qin Dynasty. It is said that Cheng Miao was the official. Han official script reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It inherited the tradition of seal script at the top and opened up the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. It has a considerable influence on later calligraphy, and the calligraphy world

It is known as "Han Li Tang Kai".