1. Oracle Bone Inscriptions

The earliest and most complete ancient Chinese characters discovered by China. Also known as "Yin Ruins Characters" and "Yin Qi", it is the characters carved on tortoise shell and beast bones in Shang Dynasty.

2. Big seal script

In the late Western Zhou Dynasty, Chinese characters developed into Da Zhuan. The big seal is for the later small seal. In a broad sense, Da Zhuan includes Xiao Zhuan, pre-Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscriptions and six-country scripts. The original seal script is generally considered as "Shi Guwen".

3. Xiao zhuan

Also known as "Qin Zhuan". During the Qin Dynasty, Li Si was ordered to unify the characters, which was called Xiao Zhuan. It was in the Qin dynasty.

4. Official script

In the process of "writing in the same language", Qin Shihuang ordered Li Si to create Xiao Zhuan, and also adopted the official script compiled by Cheng Miao. Official script is basically evolved from seal script, which originated in Qin dynasty and prevailed in Han dynasty.

5. Regular script

Song Xuanhe's Book Score holds that regular script evolved from ancient Li. Born in the late Han Dynasty, it grew up in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties and flourished in Sui and Tang Dynasties. It has become a modern Chinese character font with the widest application range and the longest use history.

6. cursive script

A Chinese character with simple structure and continuous strokes. Formed in the Han Dynasty, it evolved on the basis of official script for the convenience of writing. There are Cao Zhang, Cao Jin and Crazy Grass. Weeds appeared in the Tang Dynasty. The representative works of Weeds, such as Abdominal Pain by Zhang Xu in the Tang Dynasty and Autobiographical Postscript by Huai Su, are all existing treasures.

The above 1-5 are arranged in production order. However, the cursive script ranked sixth came into being earlier than the regular script.