Also known as "Qin Zhuan". It was in the Qin dynasty. The shape is long, even and neat, and it evolved from Da Zhuan. Xu Shen's Record of Explaining Words in the Eastern Han Dynasty said: "Qin Shihuang was the first emperor in the world, ... but he was not in harmony with Qin Wen. (Li) The company wrote Cang Xie, the CRRC office ordered Zhao Gao to write Love Calendar, and the Taishi ordered Hu Wujing to write Bo Xue, all of which were based on history as a big seal, or quite preserved, so-called small seal. " Today's remains (Langyatai Stone Carvings) and "Taishan Stone Carvings" (pictured) are the representative works of Xiao Zhuan.

cursive script

Cursive script: a font produced for the convenience of writing. It began in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty. At that time, it was "Cao Li", that is, scribbled official script, which gradually developed into a kind of "Cao Zhang" with artistic value. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhi changed "Cao Zhang" to "modern grass", and the character style was formed in one fell swoop. In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Xu and Huai Su developed into "weeds", with continuous strokes and changeable glyphs.

regular script

Regular script is also called official script, or real book. Its characteristics are: square shape, straight strokes, can be used as a model, hence the name. Began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. There are many famous regular script writers, such as Ou Ti (Ou Yangxun), Yu Ti (Yu Shinan), Yan Ti (Yan Zhenqing), Liu Ti (Liu Gongquan) and Zhao Ti (attached).

Song Xuanhe's Book Score: "In the early Han Dynasty, Wang Cizhong began to use official script as regular script." People think that regular script evolved from official script. It is said: "On the tomb of Confucius, a regular script tree planted by Zi Gongzhi has straight and unyielding branches." The strokes of regular script are concise and refreshing, and they must be like branches of regular script.

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. Xu Shen of the Han Dynasty recorded this history in Shuo Wen Jie Zi: "... Qin burned books, purged the old people, officers and men made outstanding contributions, were promoted to military service and defended, and there were countless officials and prisons. At first, it was an official script, for the convenience of agreement. " As an official script, Xiao Zhuan's writing speed is slow, which turns official script into a square fold and improves writing efficiency. Official script is basically evolved from seal script, mainly changing the round strokes of seal script into square folds, which makes writing faster, and it is difficult to draw round strokes when writing with pigments on wooden slips.