Wang Xizhi's cursive copybook classic picture shows the early cursive script, which breaks the strict rules of official script and is a kind of scribble writing. What's your name? Cao Zhang? . Cao Zhang is an elegant cursive style, which combines early cursive and Han Li, and has obvious waves and connected strokes. Wave? The form and character are independent, and the shape is all over the square, and the pen is horizontal. Cao Zhang was the most popular in the Han and Wei Dynasties, but it was revived in the Yuan Dynasty and transformed into the Ming Dynasty.
Today, the aesthetic value of Wang Xizhi's cursive copybook pictures and cursive script far exceeds its practical value. Cursive script is to connect the dots of characters according to certain rules. It is simple in structure and easy to borrow, and it is not arbitrary to scribble. One of the main features of cursive symbols is the linking of strokes, including up-and-down linking and left-and-right linking. The lateral tendency of Li Hua's brushwork provides a foundation for the grass planting of the left and right hooks. What is Cao Zhang's brushwork? One? Form, what is the brushwork of this grass? s？ Form. This is the fundamental difference between the two. Indulge with a pen, draw messy, also called big grass or crazy grass.
A brief history of cursive script and its characteristics. Any kind of writing has the requirements of simplicity and easiness in writing, and there is a tendency to preserve stick figures and scribbles. This trend is the main reason for the evolution of characters. In the period of social change and cultural development, characters are frequently used, individuals are easy to simplify, and variant characters are accelerated. In order to make the text more conducive to application, it is necessary to revise it. There are traces of cursive script in Oracle Bone Inscriptions period. ? Master Zhou Xuanwang wrote a script? 、? Li Si is a seal character? 、? Official script written by Cheng Miao? As well as Cai Yong's Eight-legged essay "Xiping Shijing", which was published in Qin and Han Dynasties in two weeks, standardized the popular characters at that time, and was also recognized as the beginning of a new book that had formed regular script.
But the trend towards simplicity has not stopped. As early as Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty and Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Zhou Dynasty, who recorded the important events of emperors and generals, there were stick figures and scrawled handwriting. Is Qu Yuan Cao Meng? 、? Didn't Dong Zhongshu's letter go up? It shows that it is wrong to write the ancient prose of the Warring States and the official script of the Western Han Dynasty quickly. According to the records of Wei and Jin Dynasties, Liu Mu, the king of Beihai in the Eastern Han Dynasty? A good history book, when the world thinks it is a model? Before Liu Mu died, Ming Di sent a letter to Ma? Make ten cursive letters? . During the reign of Zhang, it was a good example to learn Chinese characters. Emperor Zhang once ordered the writing of cursive script. It can be seen that since the middle of 1 century, cursive characters have not been written in a hurry, but have been cherished and imitated. It can be seen from the Han bamboo slips unearthed in modern times that the simplified characters of the official script of the Western Han Dynasty have become popular. In the era of Xin Mang, there were more stroke-saving and ligature characters. In the 22nd year of Jianwu (AD 46), the bamboo slips were completely cursive. However, from the Zhou Dynasty to Xin Mang, cursive script was never listed as a kind of calligraphy.
Shuo Wen Jie Zi was written in the 12th year (AD 100), and Xu Shen wrote in Xu? Hanxing has cursive script? , is the beginning of cursive as a writing style. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, famous artists such as Zhang and later Zhong You emerged in large numbers, each of which became a genre. At that time, Zhao Yi had an article "Non-cursive script", and Cai Yong also had a similar discussion on maintaining the status of orthography, which reflected that cursive script was very popular. From the end of the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, cursive script developed from Cao Zhang with the meaning of official script to today's cursive script, and even to wild cursive script.
Cao Zhang originated in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The font is in the form of official script, and the characters are different and correct each other. Cao Zhang's name has been interpreted in different dynasties. It is the most absurd to say that Cao Zhang got his name from the chapter in Urgent Chapter since the end of Han Dynasty. It is speculated that Zhang Di liked cursive script or ordered it to be used as a souvenir, and even said that Zhang Di created cursive script. Some chapters are synonymous with the articles of association and Zhang Kaizhang, which are in line with the early cursive script with eight strokes, and the words are not related to each other, and the strokes have changed into rules to follow, which many people believe.
When did this grass come into being? There are two viewpoints: Zhang Zhi in the late Han Dynasty, Wang Xizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and Wang Qia. From the handed down tables, stickers and unearthed Han bamboo slips and bricks, it can be seen that at the end of the Han Dynasty, eight-part essay, as a regular script, had a writing method similar to real books. Cursive scripts can also mutate. Cui Yuan, a cursive writer who is a little later than Zhang Zhi, wrote Cursive Script. What does he think of Cursive Script? Like a string of beads, never leaving? 、? What is the last straw and what is left? 、? No drooping head or tail? 、? The machine is wonderful. Is it suitable for the time being? Description, it can be seen that the cursive script at the end of the Han Dynasty was fluent and did not stick to the rules. The development of calligraphy has no obvious boundaries. It is said that this grass originated from the bud of Zhang Zhi as a new body; It is said that this grass originated from the two kings, focusing on the typical formation. True books have been handed down since the Tang Dynasty.