The Study Of Six Kinds Of Literature Of The Regular Script’s Stroke Order Since The Yuan Dynasty

Stroke order of regular script takes lots of information, which not only reflects the way people saw the structure of Chinese characters and functions of the stroke, but also tells us how the dictionary standarded the stroke in the past. For these reasons, the research of stroke order of modern times should be an integral part of Chinese philology. Therefore, I have done research on Shu Fa San Mei, Zi Hui, Shu Fa Li Gou, Xi Zi Mi Jue, Fu Shi Shan You Fa, Xi Zi Ru Men, which are six kinds of literature of stroke order spreaded since the Yuan Dynasty. At the same time, I used calligraphy of the Yuan Dynasty as circumstantial evidence to catch a glimpse of the various factors that affect the stroke order and to explain the reason why some characters in the literature has two or more strokes. At the same time, I also tried to find out how the stroke order has changed after the stroke movement.The six kinds of literature show that in the early Yuan Dynasty, according to up and down structure, left and right structure, surrounding structure, symmetrical structure, people had been accustomed to write from left to right, top to bottom, outside to in, middle to both sides. However, it is not easy to determine the stroke order when encountering a combination of stippling, to this situation, the ancients also formed a lot of habits, for example, writing vertical stroke after horizontal stroke, writing rightfalling stroke after leftfalling stroke, writing leftfalling stroke after horizontal stroke. In addition, the dot strokes which are closer ofter written together. But some characters in the literature has two or more strokes because of the effect of stippling, components, and structural. Besides, as a dictionary, Zi Hui are also effected by Shuo Wen Jie Zi in the aspect of formulation of the rules of stroke order.