Three stages of ancient Chinese characters in art

Three stages of ancient Chinese characters in art;

1. The inscriptions on bronzes in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Shang and Zhou Dynasties evolved into Xiao Zhuan: from realistic hieroglyphics with random shapes close to pictures to neat shapes close to abstract symbols.

2. The evolution of Xiao Zhuan into official script: also known as "official script change", is the biggest and most important change in the history of Chinese character development. The transition from ancient Chinese characters to modern Chinese characters makes Chinese characters enter the present writing stage from ancient Chinese characters, which is the transition of ancient and modern Chinese characters.

3. The official script evolved into regular script: the font structure remained basically unchanged, and the pen used changed slightly.

Among them, the change from seal script to official script is the biggest change, which marks the entry from the ancient writing stage to the present writing stage. This chapter is divided into six sections: Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Qin, Six Kingdoms, Lishu, cursive script and regular script, which describe the characteristics and evolution of various fonts respectively, and require students to master the characteristics and evolution of various fonts.

The development process of calligraphy;

People should pay attention to and understand calligraphy, so it is necessary to understand the origin of Chinese characters and calligraphy. On the basis of language, human beings have produced words. Characters are symbols used to record languages. Chinese characters are symbols for recording Chinese. It has gone through several stages of evolution, such as Oracle Bone Inscriptions, bronze inscription, Dazhuan, Xiaozhuan, Lishu, regular script, cursive script and running script.

Artistic figures are processed, beautified and decorated figures. In other words, it is a kind of writing art that beautifies characters by decorative means, and it is a practical font for artistic processing. The font is neat, eye-catching, beautiful and easy to identify, which is an indispensable tool for publicity and education, such as banner slogans, exhibitions, commodity packaging and decoration, and all kinds of advertisements, newspapers, magazines and books are inseparable from calligraphy.

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