Research On The Calligraphy Morphology To Bamboo And Wooden Slips On The Official Script's Evolution In Qin And Han Dynasties

The transition from Seal characters to Li calligraphy is of great significance in the history of the Chinese Calligraphy evolution history.From the official script's evolution,Chinese characters broke curved line,lost hieroglyphic trait of ancient writing,and formed a separate meaning of this text.As the turning point of the character style' evolution,Li calligraphy has an important significance.Bamboo Slips as the main material written during the Qin and Han Dynasties,take advantage of the archaeological bamboo slips ink marks that archaeological discovered,can systematically research the process of the official script's evolution and its stage of every characteristics during the Qin and Han Dynasties,and study the aesthetic value of Li calligraphy.The evolution of the development of the bamboo slips during the Qin and Han Dynasties is a step-by-step process,it can be divided into three period: beginning period,development period and maturing period.It also can be divided into the grass seal,ancient scribe,Han Li,Fen Li,the four official script calligraphy format.it had different aesthetic attitude in every stage.About the origin of Li calligraphy,on the basis of historical materials,many people consider that the prison officials and warfare are primary causes.Form the Spring and Autumn Period,with the development of social culture and the widespread circulation of characters,the official script's evolution began to sprout.The contemporaneous wide widespread use of brush pen provided preconditions for the writing which had variation of rhythm.Meanwhile,In order to adapt the special shape of bamboo slip,Li calligraphy took shape the stressed undulation,character pattern turn into flat square.In a sort of sense,with the development of the official script's evolution,due to the needs of social development,follow the law of its development is affected by Chinese characters,writing tools and writing style of writing and other material factors,subject to the special style of the environment,it has experienced a long course of development.the line and stroke which fixed step by step,Gradually formed a reduction,straight,folding and symbolic character strokes,and hide the head protecting tail,simultaneously,the writing characteristics of a striking one snag after another,made the Li calligraphy abandon the hieroglyphic symbols of Seal characters,and made the symmetry of Chinese characters come true.The official seal should be liberated gradually from physical objects,showing the development tendency of calligraphy font symbol evolution,and the aesthetic characteristics of sincere,steep and lyrical.Qin and Han Dynasty bamboo slips written today is no longer popular,but the form and supplement each other and aesthetic features has become the basic norms of the later art of calligraphy.