Oracle Bone Inscriptions is an ancient script in China, which is also called "Wen Qi", "Oracle Bone Inscriptions", "Yin Ruins" or "tortoise shell and animal bones". As an early form of Chinese characters, it is a mature script of Shang Dynasty in China, which was first unearthed in Yinxu, Anyang City.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions was discovered in Yin Ruins in Anyang City, Henan Province, China, and it is a cultural product of Shang Dynasty, about 3600 years ago.

2. Jinwen

Bronze inscriptions, an ancient name of China's calligraphy, refer to the inscriptions cast on bronzes during the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, also known as Zhong Dingwen. Shang and Zhou Dynasties were the bronze age, with the tripod as the representative ritual vessel and the bell as the representative musical instrument. "Zhong Ding" was synonymous with bronze ware.

There are four kinds of inscriptions on bronze, namely, inscriptions on bronze in Shang Dynasty (about 1300 BC-about 1046 BC), inscriptions on bronze in Western Zhou Dynasty (about 1046 BC-77 BC-0/year BC) and inscriptions on bronze in Eastern Zhou Dynasty (about 770 BC-0 BC).

3. Xiao zhuan

After Qin Shihuang unified China (22 1 year ago), he implemented the policy of "the same language for the characters and the same track for the cars", and the policy of unified survey was under the responsibility of Prime Minister Li Si. On the basis of the original seal script used by Qin State, six other characters were simplified and cancelled, creating a Chinese writing form with unified characters. It was popular in China until the end of the Western Han Dynasty (about 8 AD) and was gradually replaced by official script.

4. Official script

Li Shu, including Qin Li and Han Li, is generally considered to be developed from seal script, with wide and flat font, long horizontal painting and short vertical painting, and paying attention to "silkworm head and goose tail" and "twists and turns".

According to the unearthed bamboo slips, official script originated in Qin Dynasty, and Cheng Miao was also called official script. Han Li reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty, inherited the tradition of seal script, and opened the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, which had a great influence on later calligraphy. The calligraphy circle is known as "Tang Kai of Han Li".

5. Regular script

Regular script is also called regular script, real script and official script. It gradually evolved from official script, becoming more simplified and more horizontal and vertical. Ci Hai is interpreted as "square, straight and exemplary". This kind of Chinese character has the correct font and is a modern popular handwritten orthographic Chinese character.

6. Running script

Running script is a kind of calligraphy, which is divided into running script and running script. It is developed and originated on the basis of regular script, and it is a font between regular script and cursive script, which is produced to make up for the slow writing speed of regular script and the illegibility of cursive script. "Go" means "go", so it is not as scribbled as cursive script, nor as straight as regular script.

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