The basic stroke formula for the introduction of official script: the head of silkworm is goose tail, the pen must be 30% off, the geese don't fly in pairs, the silkworm has no two colors, it touches the pitch, and the left is picked and the right is stacked, which is heavy and light, strong and powerful.
Features of Lishu: The strokes of Lishu are square and round, and "turning a circle into a square and an arc into a straight" is the basic feature of Lishu's strokes. The font of official script is wide and flat, the strokes are vertically contracted, and the horizontal division is strengthened.
There are many options for the introduction of official script, among which Cao Quanbei and Zhang Qianbei are the most recommended. Zhang Qianbei's style is completely different from Cao Quanbei's. Cao Quanbei is feminine, while Zhang Qianbei is resolute. One is soft and the other is hard, which is very suitable for beginners and can cooperate with practice.
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.
Lishu simplifies the seal script, turning the flat and round lines of seal script 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.
Shuo Wen Jie Zi explains that Li means "attachment", while The Biography of Feng Yi in the Later Han Dynasty teaches it as "genus", which has been used up to now and has the word "cong" in modern Chinese. Wei Hengzhuan in the Book of Jin, Shuo Wen Jie Zi Preface and paragraph notes all think that official script is inferior to Sasuke's seal script, so official script is the auxiliary font of Xiao's seal script. "
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 "swallow tail of silkworm head" 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.