The Westen Zhou Dynasty Bronze Inscription Calligraphy Style And Evolution

Glyph of the earliest is inscribed in bronze on the text, also called bronze inscriptions, the first appeared in the late Shang, when Oracle still occupy the dominant position. Therefore, bronze casting moment fewer words and mostly pictograph based, shape of innocent yet witty, until the Western Zhou Dynasty, with the development of ritual and music culture, ritual vessels, musical instruments and other large-scale increase, inscriptions on from a subsidiary position replace Oracle into words the main carrier.Clementi began with two different styles, or systems, business systems and peripheral systems, the early Western Zhou Dynasty, bronze inscriptions mainly inherited the merchant’s style is bold, natural, few words, mostly out of the front lines and iconic fat pen, the size of the scattered structure, the overall layout of the natural swing, without affectation; the Western Zhou Dynasty the middle, because the ruler of the Zhou people demand and agricultural life, practical Jinwen becomes more and more obvious, with gradually homogenization, reduce the amount of fertilizer in the line pen, uniform structure, symmetry, there is no row or column structure has no columns, but the work also has the "personality" still, the inheritance system’s style; the late Western Zhou Dynasty, bronze development activity has declined, Zhou style system has reached the peak period of inscriptions, there are many exquisite works of a single line, with pen circular tactfully, symmetrical structure, Chapter The law of bounded lattice, there have been "prototype of Qin Xiao Zhuan", the "personality" of the works is more active but the space is not large.The characteristics of the article is divided into three parts, first of all on the study of bronze inscription of the ages of simple comb; secondly the focus of this paper, the same word in different period in the Western Zhou Dynasty bronze inscription by lines and structure, the composition of the comparative analysis to find different period of the Western Zhou Dynasty bronze inscription, carries on the elaboration. Again of the Western Zhou Dynasty bronze inscription on the subsequent development of a simple overview, and draw a conclusion.