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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