Kaishu came into use in China at the end of the Han Dynasty. It is still used in China today after more than 1.700 years. It is the main Chinese writing style, called kaishu, or regular script. It is also called zhengshu or zhenshu. Kaishu was initiated by Wang Cizhong toward the end of the…
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Chinese characters are logograms used in the writing of Chinese and some other Asian languages. In Standard Chinese they are called Hanzi (simplified Chinese: 汉字; traditional Chinese: 漢字).[2] They have been adapted to write a number of other languages including: Japanese, where they are known as kanji, Korean, where they are known as hanja, and…
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Chinese handwriting has infinite power to express differences of character and cultivation.chinese There are numerous styles, or scripts, in which Chinese characters can be written, deriving from various calligraphic and historical models. Most of these originated in China and are now common, with minor variations, in all countries where Chinese characters are used. These characters…
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Lishu (official script) is developed from wild writing of Liuwen, a kind of calligraphy that is round in shape and has too many strokes. Because writing in Liuwen is time-consuming, people usually tended to write a little more wildly and changed orderly arced strokes into relatively flat and straight in informal occasions. Li calligraphy came…
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Script Styles of Chinese Calligraphy: An Overview of Li Shu (隸書) – the Clerical Script Style What is the Clerical Script Style (Li Shu / 隸書) in Chinese Calligraphy? As we’ve already seen, the oldest Seal Scripts are very labourious for the calligrapher. This difficulty did not escape the notice of the earliest authors and…
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