Who invented the official script in traditional culture?

Origin of Scribal Script: Scribal Script, an important milestone in the history of the development of Chinese characters in China, is a traditional and important style of calligraphy, which has a long history and a long history. Whether it is used as a creation of calligraphy art or in social life, its vitality has endured and it has been loved by people of all generations.

In 221 B.C., after the destruction of the six kingdoms by Qin, the first unified feudal empire in Chinese history was established. In order to consolidate his rule and make governmental orders smooth, Qin Shi Huang carried out a bold reform of the writing system. He first simplified the Big Seal Script into the Small Seal Script, and then made the Small Seal Script the standard national script, from which the Official Script was developed.

Why is the character "隶" used to refer to a style of writing? It turns out that "li" means slave, and was created and used by people of low status.

In order to strengthen ideological control, Emperor Qin Shi Huang tyrannized over the reading public by burning books and burying scholars. According to legend, there was a disciple named Cheng Miao who was denounced and arrested in a prison because he spoke a few words of different political views in private. Cheng Miao thought to himself, "This time I am going to jail, it is very bad, if there is no special action to impress Emperor Qin Shi Huang, there is no hope for my survival. He overheard the prison officer's waist plate, and thought it was troublesome to write in seal script, so he made a reform, created a kind of quick writing style to submit to Qin Shi Huang, hoping to be adopted and popularized.

This typeface evolved the rounded and complicated strokes of the seal script into simple and square strokes, and the shape of the characters changed from long to flat, up and down to tight, and left and right to stretch, and the strokes changed from slow to short, thus showing a lively and varied style, and bringing great convenience to the writers. Qin Shihuang appreciated it so much that he not only pardoned his crime, but also made him an imperial historian. However, since the Small Seal Script had already been declared as the common script for the whole country, it was not good to change it again, and it was stipulated that this type of script should be used in official prisons in the future. Because this new script was at first used exclusively by the officials and Cheng Miao was an apprentice scribe, it was called the official script, or zoshu, or zuo scribe. It later became popular among the lower classes of petty officials and artisans. Of course, this is just a legend, and may have a large element of attachment. Because, in fact, the generation of any kind of representative style of writing, are by no means the power of an individual can create, and by no means a period of time can be completed, it is with the progress of society and the actual needs of the gradual gradual change, and ultimately molded, Cheng Miao made is probably the collation of work.

The creation of the official script, like the creation of the regular script and cursive script, was a major change in the history of Chinese calligraphy. From then on, calligraphy said goodbye to the ancient script, which had lasted for more than 3,000 years, and started the present script, in which the structure of words no longer had the meaning of hieroglyphs as in the ancient script, but was completely symbolized. Clerical Script is a qualitative change and transition from Seal Script to Regular Script. It was a qualitative change and transition that brought the Chinese script into a more finalized stage

The Qin state died after thirteen years of existence, and the Small Seal Script ended its mission as the standard script for the whole country, and the Official Script flourished in the Han Dynasty. The widespread use of the official script paved the way for the further development of Chinese calligraphy, resulting in an unprecedented boom in the history of Chinese calligraphy.