What are the characteristics of official script font, and what is the difference from regular script?

Official script is also called "official character" and "ancient book". It is a font produced on the basis of seal script to meet the needs of convenient writing. The seal script is simplified, and the uniform circle lines of the seal script are changed into straight strokes, which is convenient for writing. Official script can be divided into "Qin Li" (also called "Guli") and "Han Li" (also called "Golden Calendar"). The appearance of official script is a great change in ancient writing and calligraphy. Official script is a common solemn font in Chinese characters, with a slightly flat writing effect, long horizontal drawing and short straight drawing, and pays attention to "silkworm head and goose tail" and "twists and turns" It originated in the Qin Dynasty and reached its peak in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Calligraphy is known as "Han Li Tang Kai". It is also said that official script originated in the Warring States period. Official script is relative to seal script, and its name originated from the Eastern Han Dynasty. The appearance of official script is another great change of China characters, which brings China's calligraphy art into a new realm, is a turning point in the development history of Chinese characters, and lays the foundation for regular script. Official script is flat, neat and exquisite. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, stippling such as skimming was beautified as upward provocation, with different degrees of severity and artistic beauty of calligraphy. Styles also tend to be diversified, which is of great artistic appreciation value. According to legend, the official script was compiled by Cheng Miao who was not in the prison of Qin Dynasty. By eliminating complexity and simplifying, the font becomes round and square, and the strokes become straight. Changing "Lian Bi" into "broken pen" and changing lines into strokes makes writing more convenient. "Li Ben" is not a prisoner, but a petty official, that is, a small official in charge of documents, so in ancient times, official script was called "Zuo Shu". Lishu prevailed in Han Dynasty and became the main style of calligraphy. As a start-up Qin Li, seal script has many meanings, and it has been continuously developed and processed. It broke the writing tradition since the Zhou and Qin Dynasties and gradually laid the foundation for regular script. Under the unification of the thought of "ousting a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone", the official script of the Han Dynasty gradually developed into the dominant script, and at the same time, cursive script, regular script and running script were derived, which laid the artistic foundation. Han Li still followed Qin Li's style in the early Western Han Dynasty, but it began to undergo major changes in Xin Mang period, resulting in the writing style of stippling. By the Eastern Han Dynasty, Lishu had produced many styles and left a large number of stone carvings. Zhang Qianbei and Cao Quanbei are the representative works of this period. Han Li has the beauty of waves and strokes. The so-called "wave" is that the left line of the stroke is like a meander, and it becomes left in the later regular script; The so-called "stroke" only opens the right pen, which looks like a "dovetail" pen. When writing a long horizontal line, the pen begins to cut into the "silkworm head" facing the front, with the pen in the middle having a wave distance and a tail at the end. In this way, in the use of pens, the methods of square, round, hiding and revealing are readily available, and the pen gesture is flying and elegant. Structurally, there is a vertical square of Xiao Zhuan, which first becomes a square and then becomes a horizontal square. Han Li has a powerful, extensive, neat and flexible bearing. The reform of official script to seal script includes two aspects: stroke and structure. The method of official transformation has become square. Turn it into a straight curve. Correct the strokes and disconnect. Save the stroke structure and so on. Among them, it is most important to take the potential horizontally and keep the natural state of writing with a brush. Take the potential energy horizontally, send the pen left and right, and the up and down movement is limited. Finally, the eight-point brushwork of sweeping left and picking right is formed. The softness of the brush makes the strokes of Chinese characters have a thick and thin Fiona Fang. Hidden dew and other changes. And word spacing. Narrow line spacing is also a major feature of its composition. Han Li is exquisite in silk paintings, lacquerware, portraits and uranium mirrors. In the inscription, it shows its broad momentum and unique charm. There are two main forms of existence in Hanli: stone carving and bamboo slips. Most of the official scripts in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties are regular script. There are many calligraphers in the official script of the Tang Dynasty, such as Xu Hao. Song Yuanming's official script can hardly inspire Han Li's brilliance. Until the Qing dynasty. Han Li recovered. Yu Nong, Deng,, how. Don't achieve anything. Regular script is a slightly modified font for official script. It was formed in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and gradually matured in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. It retains the structure of the official script, removes the waves of the official script, and changes the plane shape of the official script into a basic square. Later, people often referred to Chinese characters as "square characters", which was aimed at regular script. Regarding the emergence and development of regular script, Kang Youwei said in "Guang Yi Shuang Zhou": "What happened to regular script during the Wei and Jin Dynasties? Before the Han Dynasty, there was no real calligraphy style, but the spread of real calligraphy today began with Wu Zhi's tablet of Ge Fu Jun and Chang Yuan's Li Ming, Jung, Xuan Bao and Ji Zhi Tie. By the end of the second king, everything had changed. It has become a Dafa so far, and it is not easy. " The real book he said is regular script. Since the Six Dynasties, this new type of font has been called real book and real book. In the Tang Dynasty, this font developed greatly, probably because it can be used as a model for people to learn to imitate, so it is called regular script. Regular script is characterized by horizontal and vertical calligraphy and painting, compact structure, smooth momentum and beautiful shape. There are many excellent calligraphers handed down from generation to generation in history. Ou Yangxun, Liu Gongquan, Yan Zhenqing and Zhao Meng developed regular script to the peak with their unique styles, and were called the four masters of regular script by the world.