Chinese calligraphy does not have eight major fonts, but only five major fonts, which are:
1. Official script:
Official script, a font of Chinese characters, includes Qin Li, Han Li and others are generally believed to have developed from seal script. The characters are mostly wide and flat, with long horizontal strokes and short vertical strokes. They pay attention to "silkworm heads and swallow tails" and "twists and turns."
2. Regular script:
Regular script is also called regular script, regular script, true script, and regular script. It gradually evolved from the official script and became more simplified, horizontal and vertical. The book "Cihai" explains that it has "a square shape and straight strokes, which can be used as a model." This kind of Chinese character font is correct and is the modern traditional handwritten Chinese character.
3. Seal script:
Seal script is a calligraphy style with strong pictographic character; it is the font before official script. Seal script is divided into large seal script and small seal script. Xiaozhuan is a masterpiece of calligraphy by Qin Prime Minister Li Si; it is also the font used by Qin Shihuang to implement the same text.
4. Cursive script:
Cursive script has two meanings: broad and narrow. Broadly speaking, regardless of age, all scrawled words are counted as cursive writing. In a narrow sense, that is, as a specific font, it was formed in the Han Dynasty and evolved on the basis of official script for the convenience of writing.
5. Running script:
There are two types of running script: running regular script and running cursive script. It was developed on the basis of regular script and is a font between regular script and cursive script. It was created to make up for the slow writing speed of regular script and the difficulty of identifying cursive script.