For learners of calligraphy, the regular script is us first to give students a feel for correct placement as well as to provide a proper base for the other,
tools
The ink brush, ink, paper, and inkstone are essent implements of Chinese calligraphy. They are know the Four Treasures of the Study. In addition to the a water-dropper, desk pads and paperweights are calligraphers.
Today, this style of Chinese writing is used predom seals, hence the English name is seal script.
Most people today cannot read the seal script, so considered an ‘ancient’ script, generally not us the fields of calligraphy and carved seals.
running or semi-cursive script
running or semi-cursive script
The semi-cursive script approximates normal han which strokes and, more rarely, characters are all into one another.
seal script
seal script
The seal script is the formal script of the Qín syste which evolved during the Eastern Zhōu dynasty in Qín and was imposed as the standard in areas Qín conquered.
regular or standard script
regular or standard script
The regular script (often called "standard" script ) last major calligraphic styles to develop, emerging Chinese Hàn dynasty and Three Kingdoms period dominance in the Southern and Northern Dynast maturing in the Táng Dynasty.
styles of calligraphy
Chinese
English
甲骨文
oracle bone script
金文
bronze script
篆书
seal script
隶书
clerical or offical script
草书
cursive or grass script
楷书
regular or standard script
bronze script
bronze script
Chinese bronze inscriptions, also commonly referr Bronzeare writing in a variety of Chinese scripts on ritual bronzes such as zhōng bells and dǐng tripoda from the Shang dynasty to the Zhou dynasty and e
The archaic clerical script of the Chinese Warring S to Qín Dynasty and early Hàn Dynasty can often b read for a modern East Asian person, but the matu script of the middle to late Hàn dynasty is general
The head of the brush can be made from the hair (or feathers) of a wide variety of animals, including the weasel, rabbit, deer, chicken, duck, goat, pig, tiger, wolf, etc.
Clerical script characters are often "flat" in appear wider than the preceding seal script and the mode script; some versions of clerical are square, and ot wider.
brush
The brush is traditional writing implement in Chinese calligraphy. The body of the brush can be made from either bamboo, or rarer materials such as red sandalwood, glass, ivory, silver, and gold.
Entire characters may be written without lifting the brush from the paper at all, and characters frequently flow into one another. Strokes are modified or eliminated completely
As the name suggests, the regular script is "regul of the strokes placed slowly and carefully, the bru the paper and all the strokes distinct from each o
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Introduction
Chinese calligraphy is a form of calligraphy widely practiced in China and revered in the Chinese cultural sphere, which often includes Japan, Taiwan, Korea and Vietnam. The calligraphic tradition of East Asia originated and developed from China. Chinese calligraphy and ink and wash painting are closely related, since they are accomplished using similar tools and techniques.
Early bronze inscriptions were almost always cast ( writing was done with a stylus in the wet clay of th mold from which the bronze was then cast), while inscriptions were often engraved after the bronze
clerical or offical script
clerical or offical script
The clerical script is popularly thought to have dev Hàn dynasty and to have come directly from seal s
cursive or grass script
cursive or grass script
The cursive script (sometimes called "grass script") is a fully cursive script, with drastic simplifications requiring specialized knowledge; even a person who can read the semi-cursive script cannot be expected to read the cursive script without training.
行书
running or semi-cursive script
oracle bone script
Oracle bone script
Because turtle shells as well as bones were used, t bone script is also sometimes called shell and bone As the majority of oracle bones bearing writing dat Shang dynasty, oracle bone script essentially refers t script. People believed that the shells told powers o so that is why it is called "Oracle Bone Script". Oracle bone script was the form of Chinese charac oracle bones—animal bones or turtle plastrons used pyromantic divination—in the late 2nd millennium B earliest known form of Chinese writing.