From Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty to today's regular script, the form of Chinese characters has gradually evolved. This evolution can be divided into two stages, namely, the ancient writing stage and the official script regular script stage. The previous stage began in the Shang Dynasty and ended in the Qin Dynasty, with fonts such as Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Jinwen, Dazhuan and Xiaozhuan. Later, it continued from the Han Dynasty to modern times, and the fonts were official script, cursive script, running script and regular script. The dividing line between the two stages is the transformation from Xiao Zhuan to Li Shu. The following briefly introduces the characteristics of the following different forms of Chinese characters:

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Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Oracle Bone Inscriptions are characters carved on tortoise shells and animal bones, which are mainly used for divination and applied in the late Shang Dynasty. It has a high degree of contrast, and the direction of character lines is quite uncertain.

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Bronze inscriptions are words cast on bronzes. They were mainly used in the late Shang Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty. The pictographic degree of bronze inscriptions is relatively high, but at the same time they tend to be straight and straight.

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Big seal script This is the writing of the late Western Zhou Dynasty. Inheriting the bronze inscriptions of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Qin Xiao Zhuan was created.

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Xiao zhuan. This is a kind of writing used in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. After Qin unified the six countries, Xiao Zhuan became a national book. The font of Xiao Zhuan is regular and symmetrical, and the font is simplified, which further narrows its phase difference.

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Lishu came into being at the end of the Warring States and matured in the Western Zhou Dynasty. It was the main font used in the Han Dynasty. Lishu changed the curved lines of Xiao Zhuan into straight strokes, which further simplified the font and made writing easier, but at the same time greatly reduced the pictographic degree of ancient Chinese characters. The shape is regular, the length is slightly undulating, and the right oblique pen has a ruler.

6. cursive script. Cursive script, formed in the Han Dynasty, is a simple font to assist official script, which is mainly used to draft documents and letters. Lian Bi is used in cursive writing, which is fast, but difficult to recognize.

7. Run the script. Running script appeared at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. After the emergence of regular script, running script gradually evolved into a font between cursive script and regular script, which is easier to identify and write than cursive script.

8. regular script Regular script, also called block script, is a kind of real writing. It was formed in the Han and Wei Dynasties and gradually became the main font in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It has been used until now. Its font is square and neat, left-handed, stiff and hard-hooked, the wave potential is reduced, the strokes tend to be simple and round, and it is easier to write.