![]() ![]() The content displayed in calligraphy is often ancient poems or Buddhist canon. Older yet is the oracle bone script, written on divinatory bones more than 3000 years ago, which some calligraphers still practice. ![]() Even a lot of Chinese people can't recognize it. It is has especially curved strokes, kind of like the original oracle bone script. It was the first style of writing used officially under the Qin, the first dynasty. ![]() Semi-cursive also has lian bi, but it doesn't have as many lian bi as cursive does."įinally, the oldest style of calligraphy still in wide usage is seal script (zhuan shu). The characters look like they are moving, which could explain why semi-cursive is translated directly as "running script," and cursive is "grass script." It looks like blades of grass blowing in the wind.ĭuanmu said, "The difference between semi-cursive and cursive is that cursive is written especially quickly. The cursive styles with lian bi are more flowing and impressionistic, less distinct. There is a word in Chinese to describe this called lian bi (连笔), which means a movement of the brush that links multiple strokes of a character. On the other hand, cursive and semi-cursive are both drawn in flowing strokes where the pen often doesn't leave the paper. A piece of Duanmu Liyin's calligraphy work
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